Mao Zedong

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

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

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

"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

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 04.20.2012

Read More: Anti-Vaccine Movement, Science, Climate Change, Mao Zedong, Postmodernism, Fang Lizhi, China, Freedom, Science News

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 04.12.2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 09.03.2011

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Bill Clinton, Beach, Nicholas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni, Barack Obama, Presidential Vacation, Summer, Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton, Mao Zedong, 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

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

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

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

Read More: Cultural Revolution, Art, Wang Huaiqing, Seattle Art Museum, Mao Zedong, Asian Art, Picasso, China, Arts News

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

Read More: Mao Zedong, Communist Party, Huang Hua, China, Huang Hua Death, Edgar Snow, Huang Hua Dead, Media News

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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Is China Poised for Implosion? What Would the Communist Manifesto Predict?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Deng Xiaoping probably would be concerned to see that Chinese population policies and practices as well as the engine of capitalism appears to be creating a Marxian nightmare of bourgeois and proletariat.

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After The Bible

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Biggest Bestsellers, Tolkein, The Bible, JK Rowling, Chairman Mao, Lord of the Rings, Mao Zedong, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, Bestelling Books, Books News

The Bible is the biggest bestseller in history. But after that, what else has topped the charts? Mao's "Little Red Book" comes in at number two and th...

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A Bumpy Future for Chinese Food?

Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Generation X, Rice, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, Menu, Generation Y, Restaurants, Food News

Think about it. Where did you make a reservation the last time you wanted to take someone out for a "special occasion" dinner? I'm willing to bet it was a restaurant specializing in French, Italian, or some other cuisine. But not Chinese.

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A New Book on Mao: A Quick Q & A With Author Rebecca Karl

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Studies, Mao, Mao Zedong, Nyu, China, Books News

Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History covers a big topic in a small number of pages (just over 200).

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The Ghosts of Chairman Mao and Andy Warhol Haunt a Hong Kong Art Auction

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art Auctions, Chinese Culture, Hong Kong, Christie's, Pop Culture, Mao Zedong, China, World News

A powerful spectre, his ideas have retained their power better than Mao's. He knew that in 2010, China would have McDonalds, and that art would be made in factories.

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Memorial for Social Activist Betty Millard (1911-2010)

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Betty Millard of Chicago, a long-time social activist had danced with Zhou Enlai after the Chinese Revolution and then was called to testify as a host...

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My Voice

Xiaoda Xiao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Political Prisoners, Chinese Prison Camps, China, Chinese Prison, Freedom of Speech, Writing, The Cave Man, Prison Camps, Mao Zedong, Books, Chinese Censorship, Books News

Under the strict censorship regulations of the current regime in China, the publication of any literary work that shows signs of penetrating in depth, or exposing the reality of prison life is forbidden.

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"Build, Baby, Build": How Dems Can Counter GOP Lies and Restore Political Debate

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Tactics, Republican Lies, Health Care Debate, Anita Dunn, Radical Right, Steven Pearlstein, Fox News, Mao Zedong, 9/12 Tea Party March, Jim-Wright, Berlin Wall, Newt Gingrich, Sam Rayburn, Political Debate, Blog Talk Radio, Politics News

Democrats have to respond to "Gingrich speak" by calling it for what it truly is -- propaganda, lies, and an attempt to deliberately mislead the American people.

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Stop Yawning and Start Building Trains and Other Infrastructure

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

If we want to join the Chinese and other innovators in finding solutions to our clean energy and infrastructure challenges we need to wake up before we sleep through the Green Revolution

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A Spoonful of Sugar

Roseann M. Lake | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military, China Pollution, Hu Jintao, Chinese Communist Party, China's Economy, Missiles, Mao Zedong, China, Tiananmen Square, Wen Jiabao, Home News

As a westerner living in the capital, I have mixed feelings about the 60th anniversary. I was initially vexed to learn that Beijingers couldn't attend their own country's parade.

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