Mao Zedong
The Guardian view on Xi Jinping’s China: rectification, not revolution | Editorial
Editorial: A wide-ranging crackdown and leftist rhetoric have stirred fears of a return to the apogee of Maoism
Editorial
12, Sep, 2021 @4:58 PM
Abimael Guzmán, leader of Peru’s Shining Path, dies aged 86
Founder of Maoist insurgents that terrorised Peru in 1980s and 1990s dies in military prison where he was serving life sentence
Dan Collyns Lima
11, Sep, 2021 @7:02 PM
China’s Communist party has rewritten its own past – but the truth will surface | Rana Mitter
The history of the century-old party is far more interesting than its sanitised propaganda would suggest, says Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good War
Rana Mitter
01, Jul, 2021 @7:00 AM
The Guardian view on the Chinese Communist party at 100: what does the next century hold? | Editorial
Editorial: Few would have predicted the CCP’s triumph. Now it guards its power ruthlessly
Editorial
29, Jun, 2021 @5:57 PM
The Chinese Communist party: 100 years that shook the world
As China marks the centenary of its ruling party, we examine key episodes in its tempestuous history, including the Long March, Mao’s purges and Xi Jinping’s rise to the top of an emerging superpower
Richard McGregor
27, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM
Nexhmije Hoxha obituary
Wife of the Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha who was dubbed the Lady Macbeth of Albania
Ian Thomson
02, Mar, 2020 @5:05 PM
Nixon in China review – slick update for tale of Tricky Dicky's schmoozing
Scottish Opera brings an inventive postmodern eye to its revival of John Adams’s retelling of Nixon’s 1972 state visit
Rowena Smith
19, Feb, 2020 @2:39 PM
Davos 2020 should be all about climate crisis but Trump won't admit it | Larry Elliott
Subject was not an issue at forum’s first meeting in 1971 but should now be at forefront for US president
Larry Elliott
19, Jan, 2020 @12:49 PM
How to be hopeful: Jung Chang on the moment she knew Mao’s China would become less brutal
The author reflects on an inspiring photograph taken soon after her parents were released from Mao Zedong’s labour camps
Jung Chang
15, Dec, 2019 @4:00 PM
How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter review – the cult of personality
Charisma, a lust for power, an absence of principles … what links Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and other 20th-century dictators?
Sheila Fitzpatrick
26, Oct, 2019 @6:30 AM
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang review – at the heart of 20th-century China
A remarkable story of war, communism and espionage related with nuanced sympathy, but lacking reflection
Julia Lovell
12, Oct, 2019 @8:00 AM
Mao Zedong proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China - archive, October 1949
3 October 1949: Two hundred thousand people gather in Tiananmen Square to hear the pronouncement
From our special correspondent
01, Oct, 2019 @10:43 AM
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