China hints at reform by dropping Mao wording
BEIJING (Reuters) - The subtle dropping of references to late Chinese leader Mao Zedong from two policy statements over the last few weeks serves as one of the most intriguing hints yet that the ruling...
View ArticleWatch: China’s future leaders learn founding ideology at ‘Communism camp’
In the remote Jinggang mountains, China’s future communist elite are being trained in Mao Zedong’s former guerrilla base, an effort to buttress the revolutionary roots of a regime striving to maintain...
View ArticleAs China enters new era, how much of Mao will stay?
BEIJING (Reuters) - In 1981, five years after his death, China's ruling Communist Party began to save history from Mao Zedong. Read More
View ArticleChina heir apparent Xi raised by elite, steeled by turmoil
BEIJING (Reuters) - Three years ago in Mexico, China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, provided a rare glimpse of a future leader who was born into a revolutionary aristocracy and came of age in the...
View ArticleAndy Warhol’s iconic Mao portraits excluded from China show
Andy Warhol’s famous portraits of Mao Zedong will be excluded in a major show of his work in China, organisers said on Wednesday, although they stopped short of saying they had been censored. The...
View ArticleWindow of time to embalm Chavez may have already passed
Chavez died last week at 58 after a two-year battle with cancer,and his body has been put on display in a glass-topped coffin at amilitary academy in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Millions ofpeople...
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