Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from the new, "Mao’s America: A Survivor's Warning," by Xi Van Fleet. The year 2020 was a watershed moment in American history. The outbreak of a pandemic brought ...

A former actress who grew up in poverty, she was one of the most hated women in modern Chinese history for her role in the ...

In a recent CNN interview, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for "formal deprogramming" of what she terms as the "MAGA cult." Formal? Did she mean ...

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be ...

The Chinese Civil War was not merely a contest of armies, but a vessel in which the fate of modern China was forged. At its heart stood Mao Zedong, a leader whose success was neither inevitable nor ...

Chairman Mao’s birthplace of Shaoshan is a powerful draw for anyone interested in Chinese history. Just don’t expect to find too much history there. The town in China’s central Hunan province has a ...

In the whirlwind flashback of Vanessa Hua’s novel “Forbidden City,” 15-year-old Mei is whisked away from her rural village in 1965 to Mao Zedong’s sumptuous residence in Beijing, taught some of the ...

Mao Zedong died in the early hours of Sept. 9, 1976. He had led the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than four decades and served as head of state since the establishment of the People’s ...