Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from the new, "Mao’s America: A Survivor's Warning," by Xi Van Fleet. The year 2020 was a watershed moment in American history. The outbreak of a pandemic brought ...

In 1991, fifteen years after Mao Zedong’s death, I met the Great Helmsman for the first time. It was not the most dignified of encounters. At the time, I knew his face better than that of my own ...

BEIJING — It happens every year, under cover of darkness, in the waning days of September. The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and ...

HONG KONG Mao Zedong's grandson just can't catch a break. The most-mocked man at China's annual rubber-stamp congress--which is wrapping up this week in Beijing--was in some respects also its most ...

They're rehearsing the fireworks in preparation for the opening of the Beijing Olympics which debut later this week. But behind the scenes, complaints continue about the blocking of some Internet ...

A new look at the legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal killers. At the time, Snow was thirty-two years old. Born in Kansas City, he had gone to China soon after he graduated from the ...

A display at the Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Museum in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, shows the leader's personal effects and a snapshot of his bathroom at Zhongnanhai, China's leadership compound in ...

SHAOSHAN, CHINA — LIKE visitors at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Va., people come to Shaoshan village deep in the heart of China to remember and teach their children about their national ...

Lord Acton, the British historian, said: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Two men in the 20th century fit that description: Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. A startling ...

The only grandson of China's former leader Mao Zedong has been promoted to the rank of major general in the People's Liberation Army, state media confirmed recently. Reports have been circulating for ...