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Mao Zedong

A Spoonful of Sugar

Roseann M. Lake | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home

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

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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Mao Takes Manhattan: Empire State Building Goes Red and Yellow for China

David Flumenbaum | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Empire State Building Red and Yellow, Empire State Building, Empire State Building China, China 60th Anniversary, Mao Zedong, China, China Tibet, China-Anniversary, China Human Rights, New York China, Tibet China Anniversary, Empire State Building Red, Empire State Building in Red, Empire State Building Lit in Red and Yellow, Lit the Empire State Building for China, Empire State Building Red Lights, Mao Takes Manhattan, New York News
David Flumenbaum

Wednesday night, the Empire State Building illumined its spire with red and yellow lights in honor of China. While this isn't the first time it's gone red and yellow, it's the first time it's been done for Mao.

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Remembering China's Great Helmsman

Eric Margolis | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: China-60th-Anniversary, Mao Zedong, Beijing, Chairman Mao, China, Deng-Xiaoping-China, World News
Eric Margolis

The Great Helmsman united fractured, war-torn China, restoring its pride and self-confidence after two centuries of humiliation.

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Thoughts on Kitsch and Culture after Mao

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Steve Jobs, Zhang Yimou, Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Art, Mao Zedong, Jay Chou, China, Kim Jong Il, Totalitarian Kitsch, Barack Obama, Totalilarianism, North Korea, World News
Julian Baird Gewirtz

We are left with a picture of a China that is full of contradictions and conflicting trends, of liberalizing desire to become an open society mixed with a strong strain of conservative attachment, of kitsch and real splendor existing side-by-side.

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Revolution.com

Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blackberry, Left Wing, Twitter, Digg, Referendum, Obama, Iran, China, Tiananmen Square, Iphone, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Change in Regime, Centrism, Conservatives, Revolution, Tehran, Mao Zedong, Bono, Politics News
Cedric Perrier

In the last six months alone, we have begun to see the rise of the electronic electorate and with it a real prospect for the growth of Referendum politics.

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News
Jesse Larner

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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Zelizer's Book Corner: Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Wilson Administration, Mao Zedong, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Erez Manela, Woodrow Wilson, Media News
Julian E. Zelizer

Erez Manela's new book, The Wilsonian Moment, recounts how the Wilson administration undertook an enormous campaign to distribute speeches that the president made about self-determination.

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Going to the Country: Unemployed Chinese Migrant Workers Return Home

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Migrant Workers, Unemployment, China, Chinese New Year, Economy, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Layoffs, Education, Labor, Protest, Nancy Pelosi, Chinese Exports, Chinese Government, Hurricane Katrina, China Social Unrest, Mao Zedong, Economic Growth, Health Care, China Economy, Wen Jiabao, World News
John Wagner Givens

In the world's biggest annual migration every Chinese New Year over one hundred million internal migrants take a break from their jobs and studies in ...

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Nepal's Political Crisis Deepens

Subhash Ghimire | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: India, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, World Bank, Prime Minister Prachanda, Black Market, Political Chaos, Government, Politics, Beijing, The Future, Imf, Marxism, Looting, Asia, Himalayans, Nepal Monarchy, Poverty, Terrorism, Karl Marx, Kathmandu, Maoism, Communism, Delhi, Nepal, Mao, Rebelling, Lenin, Mao Zedong, China, World News
Subhash Ghimire

More than 80% of Nepalese live in villages with very little access to health, education and other modern amenities. Lands seized by Maoists during the decade long war from 1996 to 2006 have not been returned to the owners.

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The Sick Man of the North Atlantic

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Winston Churchill, John McCain, FInancial Crisis White House, Financial Crisis Obama Mccain, Hillary Clinton 2008, George Bush Iraq, George W. Bush, German Offices, Asif Ali Zardari, United States, Congress and Iraq, Egypt Emergency Laws, Iraq War Funding, Pakistan Democracy, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Barack Obama 2008, Congress Iraq, Japan New Ambassador, Communist Party, John Maynard Keynes, Great Britain, Singapore Innovation, Financial Crisis, Geroge W. Bush, Congress Bailout, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Mao Zedong, China, Politics News
Eric Margolis

Money, observed the witty British thinker Malcolm Muggeridge, is the homogenized form of power. No more money, no more power. The great imperialist ...

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Trying to Help This Country Makes Obama a Good Candidate, Not a Socialist

Tracy Lea Carnes | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Red States, Communism, Patriotism, John McCain, Communist Party, Chinese Culture, Sarah Palin, Marxist, Socialism, Election 2008, Democratic Party, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Barack Obama, Tattoos, Canada Hockey, Mao Zedong, John McCain Angry, Socialists, Home News
Tracy Lea Carnes

Canada has a form of democratic socialism yet I don't see them suddenly amassing an army and marching across the border to impose their health care system, crazy accents, and Moulson beer on us. Inflicting Celine Dion on us was enough.

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Mao Zedong's Successor Hua Guofeng Dies

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

Read More: China, Communism, Communism China, Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong, China News, Home News

BEIJING — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that lau...

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The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?

Steve Posner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: China Communist Party, Chinese Communists, Chinese Workers, Beijing Olympics, Chinese, Mao Zedong, China Censorship, China Poverty, Chinese Peasants, China, Shanghai, China Human Rights, China Boycott, Politics News
Steve Posner

Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.

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Five Things We Wish George W. Bush Would Read Before His Olympic Visit to China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Tibet Protests, Beijing Olympics, Cnn, Kevin Rudd, George W. Bush, China Olympics, Olympic Torch, Mao Zedong, China, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China Earthquake, Olympics, Media News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.

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New Chinese Yuan Loses Mao, Gains Olympics Stadium (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Yuan, Bird's Nest Stadium, 10 Yuan Note, Olympics Cleanup, Beijing, Mao Zedong, New Yuan, Sports, China, Olympics, Mao, Business News

The Olympics in Beijing this summer involve a lot of drastic, last-minute facelifting for China, from smog cleanup to unusual Chinese algae collection...

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