Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (also known as Chairman Mao) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, ...

IN THE HEYDAY OF Mao Zedong the People's Republic may have been a poor and joyless place for most Chinese, but according to a new biography, Mao himself had a ball. The Private Life of Chairman Mao ...

Mao liked to rule from bed, often summoning his colleagues from their own beds in the middle of the night. Chairs for his Politburo were set out at the foot of his huge book-strewn bed, on which he ...

I think a case can be made that Mao Tse-tung was such a person. I base this on a richly sourced biography of the Chinese leader, Mao: The Untold Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, who bring ...

Mao: The Unknown Story was written by Jung Chang, who described the suffering of her family during the cultural revolution in the bestseller Wild... A new book paints Mao as a monster on par with ...

It is only natural to feel some pleasure when another person’s suffering leads to one’s benefit, especially in competitive situations where the benefit can be felt so directly. But some people, ...