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Mao's Granddaughter Draws Criticism After Appearing On Rich List

Agence France Presse | | Posted 05.09.2013 | World
Read More: New Fortune Rich Lost, China Rich List, Video, China Millionaires, Mao Tse Tung, Mao Granddaughter, Mao Granddaughter China Rich List, Mao Zedong, Chen Dongsheng, China, Kong Dongmei, World News

The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country's richest citizens prompted online accu...

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PHOTOS: Chavez Is Not The Only Dead Leader On Display

The Huffington Post | Carlo Davis | Posted 03.08.2013 | World
Read More: Hugo Chavez, Video, Joseph Stalin, Leaders on Permanent Display, Hugo Chavez Embalmed, Kim Il Sung, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Embalmed Leaders, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez Permanent Display, World News

Thousands of Venezuelans spent hours waiting in line on Thursday to pay their respects to Hugo Chavez. According to the Associated Press, the line to ...

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WATCH: Tech CEO's Surprising Journey From Child Soldier (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Noalee Harel | Posted 01.22.2013 | Technology
Read More: Geomagic, Ping Fu, Video, Geomagic Ceo, Mosaic, Mao Zedong, 3D Printing, Technology News

The tech world is a-buzz with hype about 3D printers and possible changes in the industry as a result. HuffPostLive got in on the hype by interviewing...

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China Changes the Guard

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.12.2013 | World
Read More: Deng Xiaoping, Taiwan, Communist Party, Hu Jintao, South China Sea, Chiang Kai-Shek, Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong, China, World News
Eric Margolis

China's current 18th Party Congress that ended this week may prove even more important that America's just-fought election.

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8 Myths About Mao Zedong

Steven I. Levine | Posted 01.12.2013 | Books
Read More: Book News, Mao Zedong Book, Mao Zedong History Books, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong History, Slideexpand, Mao Zedong Books, Mao Zedong History Book, Books News
Steven I. Levine

The American understanding of Mao Zedong has been in flux for the past seventy-five years. That is because what we know about the lives of historical figures is constrained by our sources of information and shaped by the times in which we live.

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The People's Republic of the Polo Shirt

John Wagner Givens | Posted 11.27.2012 | World
Read More: Corruption, Gu Kailai, Mao Zedong, Fashion, Bo Xilai, China, China Clothing, China Polo Shirts, World News
John Wagner Givens

The polo shirt is an example of a Chinese twist on conspicuous consumption. Instead of expensive tailored suits, designer ties and glittering cuff links, nouveau riche Chinese seem content to purchase ever pricier polo shirts.

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Two New Books Testify to the Power of Music

Alan Elsner | Posted 11.21.2012 | Books
Read More: Classical Music, Cultural Revolution, Blindness, Oberlin College, Opera, Yale University, Mao Zedong, Bach, China, Books News
Alan Elsner

Two new books share an important attribute -- an unshakable belief that Bach, Mozart and Schubert elevate the human spirit and have the power to comfort us, to inspire us and to overcome even the greatest challenges.

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The Cultural Revolution Still Haunts China

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.09.2012 | World
Read More: Red Guards, 18th Party Congress, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Qing, Cultural Revolution, Hu Jintao, Gang of Four, Gu Kailai, Mao Zedong, Bo Xilai, China, World News
Eric Margolis

Two major events in China are sure to shape the world's newest superpower: the sensational murder trial of Madame Gu Kailai, and the top secret leadership conclave at the seaside resort of Beidaihe.

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Thomas Friedman's (Slightly Maoist) Great Leap Forward

Zack Exley | Posted 09.23.2012 | Business
Read More: Startups, Jobs, Thomas Friedman, Mao Zedong, Economics, Business News
Zack Exley

Thomas Friedman's fetish for decentralization and bottom-up economic growth is actually a global phenomenon shared not only with the remaining Maoists on earth, but everyone from conservative and neo-liberal economists to the protesters of the Occupy movements.

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Famous Handshakes That Signaled Peace

AP | Posted 06.25.2012 | World
Read More: Ronald Reagan, World Peace, Diplomacy, F.W. De Klerk, Peace, Famous Handshakes, De Klerk, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Nelson Mandela, Richard Nixon, Nixon, Mao Zedong, Menachem Begin, Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Anwar Sadat, World News

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and former Provisional Irish Republican Army leader Martin McGuinness are expected to shake hands in a delicately choreo...

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Mad Men: A Great Leaper Forward? Joan, Jag, Don's Return to Advertising (And Other, er, Treks)

William Bradley | Posted 07.23.2012 | TV
Read More: Culture News, Jaguar, James Bond, TV Ratings, Christina Hendricks, Pete Campbell, Jared Harris, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Television News, Mao Zedong, Mad Men, Star Trek, TV News
William Bradley

"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.

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Notorious Dictators Get A Fabulous Makeover

Posted 05.15.2012 | Arts
Read More: Spoke Art Gallery, Fabulous Portraits, Art Pad Sf, Funny Art, Video, Gay Stereotypes, Hitler, Satire, Slideexpand, Scott Scheidly, Mao Zedong, Pope, Artpad Sf, Arts News

Through his work, Florida-based painter Scott Scheidly creates unorthodox renditions of tyrants, dictators and popes, turning them from drab to fab wi...

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Science, a Force for Freedom and Human Rights

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 06.20.2012 | Science
Read More: Anti-Vaccine Movement, Science, Climate Change, Mao Zedong, Postmodernism, Fang Lizhi, China, Freedom, Science News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

That a Chinese astrophysicist's passing is noted in a prestigious American literary journal is a testament to how Fang Lizhi crossed boundaries between the two cultures of humanities and science, and was much admired, even loved, in both.

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The Pragmatic Purge of Bo Xilai

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 06.12.2012 | World
Read More: Cult of Mao, Cultural Revolution, Populism, Politburo, Communist Party, Zhongyong, Corruption in China, Chinese Middle Class, Ccp, Red Songs, Mao Zedong, Bo Xilai, Chongqing, Chinese Politics, Neil Heywood, Bo Xilai Replaced, China Politics, Bo Xilai Wife Murder, China, World News
Tom Doctoroff

Bo Xilai, the populist former Chongqing chief recently purged from China's Politburo, was a dangerous, recidivistic force in Chinese politics. His fate should be cheered. Yes, his ouster reveals the dark side of the country's cloak-and-dagger leadership.

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Nixon in China, 40 Years Later

Winston Lord | Posted 04.23.2012 | Politics
Read More: President Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Nixon in China, Richard Nixon, Winston Lord, Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong, China, Politics News
Winston Lord

Myth: Henry Kissinger was the first American official in China since 1949. Fact: On Kissinger's secret trip to China in July 1971, my dad conveniently made sure he was at the front of the Pakistani-piloted plane as it entered Chinese airspace. Some would say he ran to the front.

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Big, Steely, Shiny and, Thank God, It's Not Jeff Koons

Edward Goldman | Posted 03.05.2012 | Arts
Read More: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons, Vladimir Lenin, Ace Museum, Mao Zedong, Los Angeles, Gao-Brothers, Arts News
Edward Goldman

The last day of 2011 ended on a rather dramatic note: something stopped me -- figuratively and literally -- in my tracks. I almost bumped into it. It was big, shiny and made out of stainless steel. And, no, it was not, thank God, any of the shiny nonsense by Jeff Koons.

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Invoking Hitler's Name: A User's Guide

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 01.11.2012 | Media
Read More: Genocide, Tea Party, Nazi Germany, Evil, Joe Klein, Celebrity Chefs, Holocaust, Hitler, Wall Street, Pol Pot, Mario Batali, Babbo, Glenn Greenwald, Fox News, Civil Discourse, Mao Zedong, World War II, Stalin, Media News
Brandt Goldstein

On November 9, celebrity chef Mario Batali made the mistake of comparing Wall Street bankers to Hitler. (He also threw Stalin in there, but let's keep this simple.)

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China in Ten Words: A Book to Watch for

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 01.02.2012 | Books
Read More: China Communist Party, China in Ten Words, China-Revolution, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese-Revolution, China Growth, Mao Zedong, China Human Rights, Books News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

One of China's most prolific, interesting, and hard to pigeon-hole authors, Yu Hua, is on a book tour in the U.S., promoting his latest work (the English language edition comes out next week), a collection of essays titled China in Ten Words.

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GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics
Read More: Russia, Jews, Relationships, Galileo, Science, Democrats, Catholic Church, Politics, Art, Creationism, Gay Rights, Germany, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Mao Zedong, China, Gay Marriage, Albert Einstein, Soviet Union, Republicans, Politics News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

Americans should support the rarer and rarer Republican candidates that are pro-science. Nations that have strayed too far down the path of placing ideology ahead of science have come out losers, both economically and in terms of global power.

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Politicos In Swimwear: Obama, Carla Bruni, Nixon & More (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 08.17.2012 | Style
Read More: Slideadbigshot, Bill Clinton, Presidential Vacation, Richard Nixon, Summer, Beach, Hillary Clinton, Mao Zedong, Nicholas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni, Barack Obama, Style News

With the mercury rising this Independence day, the only thing we want to do is go for a swim. And to celebrate our beach-ward aspirations we've gather...

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Watch: The Only American Who Joined China's Communist Party

Posted 08.31.2011 | World
Read More: Chinese Communist Party Anniversary, Communism, Video, Ccp, World, Chairman Mao, Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, China, World News, World News

As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrates its 90th anniversary, one American offers a unique perspective on its history. Sidney Rittenberg i...

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China Sees No End To Rule Of Communist Party

Posted 08.09.2011 | World
Read More: China Communist Party, Communist Party, Mao Zedong, Chairman Mao, China Economy, Chinese Communist Party, China, World News

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's Communist Party sees no reason why it cannot stay in power indefinitely, having made the nation into the envy of the wor...

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Mao Tse-Tung May Not Be The Author Of His 'Little Red Book'

The Independent | Posted 08.06.2011 | Books
Read More: Communism, Party Literature Research Centre, Little Red Book, Chairman Mao, Marxist, The Forbidden City, Mao Zedong, Mao Tse-Tung, Tiananmen Square, China, Books News

Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book" is the closest thing to a bible that Marxist-Leninist, materialist and atheist Chinese society can have. ...

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The Forgotten Garden: Wang Huaiqing's Chinese Art In Seattle

Robert Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Cultural Revolution, Art, Wang Huaiqing, Seattle Art Museum, Mao Zedong, Asian Art, Picasso, China, Arts News
Robert Ayers

The majority of Chinese artists who are squabbled over by blue chip dealers have one thing in common: The history between Mao's cultural revolution and present-day China's as a touchstone in their art's imagery.

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Those Were the Days

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Mao Zedong, Communist Party, Huang Hua, China, Huang Hua Death, Edgar Snow, Huang Hua Dead, Media News
Murray Fromson

An obituary deep in the pages of the New York Times on Thanksgiving Day disclosed the death of Huang Hua, perhaps one of the most discreet, influential negotiators in China's contemporary history.

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