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Mao Zedong

March 2025

  • Crowd of Chinese people in front of balloons with banners and a building with columns wave Little Red Books in the air

    Mao Zedong’s first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda

    Rare early editions of book by communist party chairman, who shunned the idea of wealth, set to go on sale for £1m

November 2024

  • A triptych of images from Propagandopolis

    Propaganda: 100 years of fear, manipulation and persuasion – in pictures

    Drugs, war, apartheid and the environment are some of the themes covered in the book Propagandopolis, which charts a century of efforts to influence and control

October 2024

  • Guardian Design / Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China – podcast

    Our twins spent two years at primary school in Chengdu. Their lessons featured alarming cautionary tales and stories of Chinese superiority, but there was fun and irreverence, too. By Peter Hessler

August 2024

  • Guardian Design / Getty

    The long read
    Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China

  • Mao Zedong, in Beijing in 1967

    ‘Monument to history’ battle between US and China over future of Mao’s secretary’s diary

July 2024

  • Headline<br>Acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare before speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2006. Scotland, United Kingdom 19 August 2006

    Ismail Kadare obituary

    One of Albania’s greatest writers who explored the ugliness and dignity of this ancient and long-oppressed nation

February 2024

  • A prototype edition of the book of Mao quotations

    Rare copy of Mao’s Little Red Book expected to fetch more than £30,000

    Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefacts

November 2023

  • Tania Branigan

    Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize

    The Guardian writer’s book explores the traumatic legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through those that experienced it

August 2023

  • isabel crook horse

    Isabel Crook obituary

    Canadian anthropologist who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on to build a ‘new China’

May 2023

  • President Nelson Mandela, right, gives former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger a welcome hug, Johannesburg, April 1994.

    Kissinger at 100: Statesman or war criminal? His troubled legacy – in pictures

    First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today

April 2023

  • Quotations from Chairman Mao written on a wall.

    Today in Focus
    Xi Jinping and the battle over China’s memory of the Cultural Revolution

    Mao’s Cultural Revolution pitted children against their parents and tore at the fabric of China’s society. It’s vital to the understanding of China today, says Red Memory author Tania Branigan

February 2023

  • Communist China - teachers from Qinghua (Tsinghua) University and Beijing University forced to do heavy manual work during the Cultural Revolution period. They are carrying stones to reinforce a dyke, in order to prevent flooding.

    The Audio Long Read
    A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution – podcast

    It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness? By Tania Branigan

January 2023

  • University teachers from Tsinghua and Beijing working to reinforce a dyke during the cultural revolution.

    The long read
    A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution

    The long read: It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness?

November 2022

  • Shanghai residents scuffle with staff dressed in protective clothing on Wednesday, in an image obtained from social media.

    The Guardian view on the future of China’s unrest: more complex than it seems

    Editorial: A binary reading of these remarkable zero-Covid protests does not help anyone understand their significance

October 2022

  • A video screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping as security check visitors at the press centre for the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China.

    The most powerful man in China since Mao: Xi Jinping is on the brink of total power

    The Communist party will this week confirm Xi as China’s most powerful leader since Mao. What will his extended term of office mean for the country and for its neighbour Taiwan?

August 2022

  • The artist Jim Dine.

    China’s censorship reaches far beyond its own borders

  • The Minions characters are displayed on a poster at the entrance of a cinema in Beijing.

    The Guardian view on China’s censors: the sense of an (acceptable) ending

April 2022

  • Composer Tan Dun conducting the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in Guizhou province, China, in August 2020.

    How Beethoven inspired 50 years of cultural exchange between the US and China

    A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threat

February 2022

  • China's chairman Mao Zedong greeting Richard Nixon in Beijing during the US president’s historic trip to China in February 1972

    Fifty years on, ‘Nixon in China’ loses its sparkle in Beijing and Washington

    The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom

November 2021

  • Visitors walk in front of a picture of Xi Jinping at the Museum of the Chinese Communist party in Beijing

    Chinese Communist party elevates Xi’s status in ‘historical resolution’

    Analysts say move is designed to put president on same level as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping
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