SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Madame Mao's life was filled with lust, betrayal, revenge and murder. So composing an opera based on the story of Jiang Qing - the cruel and vindictive wife of Mao Zedong - was ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Leaning on a cane, Wang Bin hobbled out between the columns of the mausoleum on Tiananmen Square that houses the embalmed body of Mao Zedong, happy he had the strength to visit the ...

In the whirlwind flashback of Vanessa Hua’s novel “Forbidden City,” 15-year-old Mei is whisked away from her rural village in 1965 to Mao Zedong’s sumptuous residence in Beijing, taught some of the ...

Test your knowledge with a daily quiz on Mao Zedong's life, achievements, and historical significance in The Hindu daily quiz ...

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 – rehearsing Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Here, she meets Sun ...

Those were the teacher’s instructions on a recent Sunday morning when 17 college students met at Tsinghua University in Beijing for “Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Madame Mao's life was filled with lust, betrayal, revenge and murder. So composing an opera based on the story of Jiang Qing — the cruel and vindictive wife of Mao Zedong — was easy ...