This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong and a biography written by a foreign scholar has become a big hit once again in China. The full Chinese ...

The real story promised in the title of this biography is that Mao Zedong was largely a subordinate of Joseph Stalin, and not the independent revolutionary portrayed in other narratives. Author and ...

The earliest edition of Mao Zedong's biography was discovered recently in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. The book, written by renowned American journalist Edgar Snow, was ...

The movie about the early years of "The Great Helmsman" has a $4.9 million budget and will be screened as part of celebrations marking the 120th anniversary of the leader's birth in December. By ...

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 ...

Jung Chang's and Jon Halliday's biography of Mao Zedong called "MAO: The Untold Story" is an important book in ways not envisaged by most biographies. Chang's first book, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters ...

A Mao Zedong biography by a Party-owned publisher was banned for containing a defamatory quote against a Communist spy, whose kin will receive 30,000 yuan ($4,501) in compensation. The founder of the ...