Chairman Mao Zedong called him the "steel factory" for ... the 120th anniversary of the birth of the late paramount leader ...

What's your impression of Chinese leaders from Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping? Nixon was a devious and manipulative politician who became a statesman with a sophisticated ...

A year after Deng Xiaoping stepped down as China's paramount leader, Mindy Guo took a risk and left her secure job in the "iron rice bowl". It was November 1990 and the 21-year-old had been ...

They were to aid Kuomintang troops who were fending off a Communist siege by Mao Zedong's army. Just kilometres away behind enemy lines was a Chinese commander named Deng Xiaoping. When they ...

The founder the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, died on September 9 ... that would result from the policy of openness under Deng Xiaoping’s leadership, which was consolidated in ...

In the second half of the 1950s, Mao gradually turned his back on peaceful coexistence and returned to a more radical vision of international politics based on class struggle. As recent historical ...

Deng Xiaoping was appointed Secretary of the General ... by the Central Committee and with the policy decisions of Mao Zedong. Once operational plans were decided upon, Deng was to help organize ...

Deng Xiaoping, who took over as leader in December ... used the slogan to urge the country to reflect on the lessons of Mao's governance, especially during the Cultural Revolution - a decade ...