China marked the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth with relative restraint in a nod to the balance President Xi Jinping must strike in using the revolutionary leader's legacy as he pursues ...

And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds.

BEIJING – China's leaders bowed three times before a statue of Mao Zedong on the 120th anniversary of his birth Thursday in carefully controlled celebrations that also sought to uphold the ...

Denouncing "corpse worship" in China's most famous gathering place, a group of Chinese scholars has called for the removal of Mao Zedong's mummified body from its grandiose tomb at the heart of ...

Every morning, as many as 20,000 people flock to Tiananmen Square to join the vast queues of pilgrims, often stretching a kilometre long, at the entrance to the tomb of Mao Zedong.

For 27 years, Mao Zedong's corpse has rested peacefully in a mausoleum in the center of Beijing's Tiananmen Square, disturbed only by millions of foreign tourists, out-of-towners and city dwellers ...

We paid our driver and hurried out of the cab that brought us to Tiananmen Square, determined to fight the crowds surrounding a large, beige building dominating the middle of the famous public ...

China is undergoing a revolution, and it features Mao Zedong spinning in his mausoleum. The last act of the National People’s Congress Friday was to pass a property-rights law whose only link to ...

Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, a day after the celebration of the birth of Christ. Today, for his hundred-and-twentieth birthday, China’s leaders once again queued up to look at their ...