PRESENTER:'There were those who said, of course, 'that had he died in 1956 ... the origins and rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and the significance of Mao Zedong in the process.

Nineteen seventy-six is a year the Chinese people will never forget. Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Mao Zedong died one after another, plunging the nation into mourning. Then in October, to general ...

The chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall stands on the former sits of Zhonghuamen Gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square between the Monument to the People's Heroes and Zhengyangmen Gate.

A village called Shaoshanchong at the foot of the mountain was where Mao Zedong (1893-1976), the late leader of China was born and grew up. An exhibition hall memorializing Mao's life and ...

When Mao Zedong died in 1976, China was at a crossroads—would it continue his radical, ideological rule or embrace modernization? What followed was a brutal power struggle between Mao’s chosen ...