From left, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and current president Xi Jinping. (Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images) Skip to main content. Mao Zedong 毛泽东 (1935-1976) ...

Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Thought, and Xi Jinping Thought share this common characteristic -- it is the basis for CCP control of the country.

Deng Xiaoping once appraised the rule of his predecessor as China's paramount leader, Mao Zedong, as being "70 percent positive and 30 percent negative". How would Deng's own performance in office be ...

Chairman Mao Zedong called him the “steel factory” for his uncompromising ... Deng Xiaoping puts on a cowboy hat presented to him at a rodeo near Houston during his 1979 visit to the United ...

As it celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding, China's ruling Communist Party is using a network of hundreds of schools to train a new generation of members and extend its control over a ...

But Mao did not succeed in doing in Deng, and China and the world are greatly the better for that. Zhou Enlai was a brilliant diplomat whose graceful manners and tact concealed his ruthless realism.

Deng's reforms replaced Chairman Mao's "collectivization" with the privatization of farmland, giving the land confiscated during the "Great Leap Forward" in the 1950s back to the farmers.

Mao Zedong led the Communists to victory and proclaimed the People’s ... Deng Xiaoping was cast into the political wilderness during the 1960s and 1970s but emerged as the paramount leader ...

Deng and his 'true heir' Xi Jinping differ in strategies and approaches, but closer examination reveals many core similarities As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth ...