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.

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 ...

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.

President Xi Jinping attempted a balancing act on the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth yesterday, praising the late Communist Party leader's teachings while acknowledging he was "not a god".

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...