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.

The party has tried, with some success, to erase what it calls the “political turmoil” of 1989 from the collective memory.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro signs the guest book at the mausoleum of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, China September 14, 2018.

Tiananmen Square is a vast open space in the center of Beijing with monumental, communist-era buildings along two of its ...

Tiananmen Square is a vast space in the center of Beijing with monumental, communist-era buildings along two sides and the mausoleum of Mao Zedong, who founded the communist era in 1949, on the ...

A month later, Xi Jinping, who had just turned 23, visited his father, who made him recite two of Mao Zedong’s famous speeches from memory: “On Contradiction” and “On Practice.” ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...

Xu Qiliang, a former air force general who was reportedly close to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, has died at age 75, according to the Defense MInistry ...

How did this royal tomb become an ancient wonder? Size and style. Built in the 4th century B.C., the lavish—and massive—Mausoleum at Halicarnassus awed onlookers for more than 1,600 years.

Mao Saigo, who started on the 10 th tee early in the day, strung together birdies on 18 ,1 and 2 on her way to a 66, the best round of the tournament. She shot a 70 in the U.S. Women’s Open ...

The implications of that single deportation are staggering: Dr. Qian returned to China and immediately persuaded Mao Zedong to put him to work building a modern weapons program. By the decade’s ...

Then, in 1962, he was purged by Mao Zedong for supporting the publication of a novel Mao considered subversive. Four years later, China’s paranoid dictator launched the Cultural Revolution, ...