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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. IN THE HEYDAY OF Mao Zedong the People's Republic may have been a poor ...

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 ...