BEIJING – Only the Olympics could bump Mao Zedong, the founding leader of communist China, off a Chinese banknote. To commemorate the Beijing Olympics, China's central bank is issuing a new 10 ...

Mao Zedong's image has been left off a commemorative Olympic banknote, making the former communist leader the first official loser of this summer's Games. The new 10-yuan note, ...

Mao dropped from new China note Six million of the new banknotes will be issued. For the first time in nearly a decade China is issuing new banknotes without the image of Chairman Mao Zedong. The 10 ...

Mao Zedong‘s face already adorns every bank note, and a portrait of “The Great Helmsman” continues to grace the gates of the Forbidden City in the heart of the country’s capital, Beijing ...

Editor’s Note: Jaime’s China is a column about Chinese society and politics. ... The mood at the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong’s birthday is relatively muted, by Chinese standards.

Of those other theories, we'll note, only one shares the word "thought" with Xi: Mao Zedong Thought, known to many outside of China as simply "Maoism." Sponsor Message.

Mao Zedong at a banquet in 1956, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1957. Contributor/Bettmann via Getty Images, and J. Wilds/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 2023-12-08T03:33:31Z ...

Only when Chinese strip away the mythology surrounding Mao Zedong will we understand his terrible legacy, Mao Yushi writes in an essay adapted for The Wall Street Journal ...

Editor’s Note: Yu Xiangzhen is a ... In 1966, I was one of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Red Guards. Myself and millions of other middle and high school students started denouncing our teachers, ...

Editor’s Note: Jaime’s China is a column about Chinese society and politics. ... The mood at the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong’s birthday is relatively muted, by Chinese standards.

I have lived a life haunted by guilt. In 1966, I was one of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Red Guards. Myself and millions of other middle and high school students started denouncing our teachers ...