The slogan—a sarcastic play on the “Great Leap Forward,” the disastrous economic and social campaign carried out from 1958 to ...

Long before doctors gained public trust, royal women from Mysore (present day Mysuru) and Travancore led by example—embracing ...

Donald Trump has signed a piece of paper that will destroy a massive part of American life – and you should be very afraid.

Chinese artist Badiucao has said that two Mong Kok billboards showing a clip he made with a hidden political message have ...

Chinese artist Badiucao has said he snuck a political message onto two billboards in Mong Kok during last week’s Art Week.

When Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China in 1949, they imposed a political unity on a fragmented reality. The new PRC stretched from borders ...

Products that are seen as forgeries in the West are seen as «re-creations» in China, where the culture does not condemn copying works of art. The hand-painted copies are popular worldwide.

Next to them hang portraits of Mao Zedong, George W. Bush senior ... more precisely in the Dafen Oil Painting Village. The term «village» is somewhat misleading, as Dafen is well connected to the ...

The first involves the journey of the communist soldier Stahlmann on his assignment to China as a military advisor to the revolutionary army led by Mao ZeDong. As part of his journey Stahlmann ...

The collective praised “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” as being “the second great innovation in the Sinicization of Marxism-Leninism, the first being those advances enshrined under Mao Zedong ...

A few days later, I met Chairman Mao Zedong himself for the first time. He was sixty-one years old to my nineteen. He was warm and welcoming. This meeting, joined by other top leaders, including ...