Trump is purging officials, persecuting intellectuals and burnishing his cult of personality. If reason prevails, Americans ...

Imagine a time traveller from Mao Zedong’s China – say a Red Guard – landing in a Chinese city today, nearly half a century ...

peasants and other soldiers who had gathered for a marathon conference on the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong. This was 1968, nearly two years into the Cultural Revolution, Mao's attempt to purge ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the ... badly with his disastrous Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and other bloody and misguided social ...

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the future wife of Mao Zedong ... define the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Shanghai ...

Hard as it is to imagine amid the harrowing US-China trade war these days, there was a time when the two countries hardly did ...