China watchers in North Block or Langley would probably be nonplussed by a book on China and India that focuses, not on the great arid scapes of Galwan or the high reaches above Tawang, but upon a ...

Westad and Chen deliver a lively account of Chinese history from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 through the first decades of economic reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie is a fascinating tale about the power of literature. Two boys from ...

Father Angelo S. Lazzarotto promoted dialogue with China, following the brutal Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong ...

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

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 ...

Silicon Valley’s congressman says a class of ‘economic royalists’ is lining up behind the vice president.

Exploring the emptiness of soldiers in the Chinese Revolution ... Mao’s wife wrote propaganda operas seems like a satire. Today it’s seen as exaggerated, but it was the truth. We would open any ...

As China and the US raise tariffs against each other, an old video of Mao Zedong from 1953 has appeared online. A Chinese official shared it , indicating China's strong position as the trade fight ...

People shared a video clip of Chairman Mao Zedong talking about the Korean War ... His father, a vice premier, was purged when Xi was 9 years old. During the Cultural Revolution, Xi's father was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...