Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian provide a superb history of China’s transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution ...

ANEW official edition of Mao Tse-tung's "Selected Works" calls to mind the curious fact that in some respects the political landscape in Communist China presents a more familiar aspect to the student ...

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Wild, Incisive, Fearless. China’s Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to “conquer nature” but resulted in as many as 75 million ...

The relationship between the United States and China is often called the most complex and consequential in the world, and a ...

In a remarkable interview, a censor for one of China’s biggest search engines described what gets deleted from the Chinese internet and how—as well as their perspective on the morality of ...

Song’s who later became a historian at the University of Chicago, published “Victims of the Cultural Revolution,” a book that included ... were supported by Mao Zedong.

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China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate critical facilities away from the country’s most densely populated areas to its western hinterlands. Mao’s 1964 “Third Front ...

His union with sensible-seeming archaeologist Cat Jarman is the latest chapter of the aristocratic soap opera that is the ...

They burned books, pulled up floorboards and left behind ... “The entire Communist Party and Mao Zedong are also responsible.” One of eight children, Ms. Song was born in 1947, two years ...