BEIJING (Reuters) - A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China’s founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed President Xi Jinping's "new era" of ...

Mao Zedong died in 1976, but his political ideology survives to this day. "The Great Helmsman Mao Zedong has still left a heavy mark on Chinese politics and society," says acclaimed British scholar ...

Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China. Renowned in his field as a contrarian, he ...

Maoism is a mix of Marxism-Leninism created as part of a socialist revolution in the Republic of China. It was the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party from the 1950s to the late 1970s. The 9-4 ...

Mao Zedong became one of the last century’s most powerful dictators by completely transforming Chinese society through the systematic use of violence, coercion, and aggressive propaganda. His method ...

For decades, China suffered a cult of personality dictatorship, claiming progress while likely accounting for half the world’s population of extreme poor. Is Xi’s China reverting to Mao’s China? Well, ...

Wang Xiaobo has been branded “the Chinese Kafka”. Both died in their early 40s; both wrote as modernists with a profound sense of literary and cultural tradition; both had a great impact on the ...

In Nepal, the Maoists have been the leading force pushing to establish Nepal as a secular state, which was finally achieved on May 28, 2008. The majority of hardliner Hindus in Nepal saw this move as ...