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.

Known around the world as Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong led the bloody two-decade-long revolution that overthrew Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and established the People's Republic of China in 1949.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mao Zedong: King of Kitsch With Mao-abilia everywhere, ... In Beijing, a short stroll from the marble and granite mausoleum where his gray-suited corpse is still on display, ...

Thirty one years on after his death, public reverence for late Chinese leader Mao Zedong remains strong. ... 17,000 people pay homage to Mao's Mausoleum (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-12-27 10:16.

President Anura Kumara Disanayake, who is currently on a state visit to China, visited the exhibition hall on the history of the Communist Party of China today (15). Following this, President ...

Later, he paid his respects by offering flowers at the Mao Zedong Memorial, dedicated to the founding leader of the People's Republic of China. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment, and ...