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 ...

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 ...

Books on management tend to define success in the broadest possible terms—great product, happy employees, continuous improvement, gobs of profits, crushed competitors. Even when words such as ...

BEIJING — The death Friday of the last known surviving son of Mao Tse-tung cast light on the nearly forgotten children of the man who once reigned as a demigod over a quarter of the world’s population ...

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 MERE 18 years after the death of Mao Zedong, it was possible for a notable Sinologist to give his book on Chinese reforms the title of “Burying Mao”. And who was to quibble? The point of all the ...

Friday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death. While his reputation was deeply ...

Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao was arrested May 16 by plainclothes military officers, according to his wife and colleagues. Mao had previously faced legal charges and physical attacks as a result of his ...