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Today is National Day in China. On this day, 49 years ago, Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China founded the People's Republic of China with a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. For most Chinese people, however, this day is not about Chairman Mao nor is it about the triumph of the Communist Party. Today is a day of rest in China; this national holiday is an opportunity to travel or to spend time with friends. While the day may be politically charged in Beijing and some other big cities, most Chinese people that I know are not so interested...

WASHINGTON - Chinese leader Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released Tuesday. The powerful chairman of the Chinese Communist Party said he believed such emigration could kickstart bilateral trade but could also "harm" the United States with a population explosion similar to China, according to documents released Tuesday by the State Department on US-China ties between 1973 to 1976. In a long conversation that stretched way past midnight at Mao's residence on February 17, 1973, the cigar-chomping Chinese leader referred to the...

Vandal damages China's iconic Mao portrait Sat May 12, 12:20 PM ET A vandal damaged the giant portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong that hangs over the Forbidden City on Saturday, prompting police to clear the area and adjacent Tiananmen Square, witnesses said. Most of the picture was intact, but workers could be seen in a crane cleaning the lower left area of the huge portrait, which appeared damaged by soot after the vandal hurled a burning object at it. Police were swarming the area. Traffic could pass by, but Tiananmen, the symbolic heart of Communist China, was temporarily...

Virtue and Terror, by Maximilien Robespierre (Verso, 160 pp., $14.95) and On Practice and Contradiction, by Mao Zedong (Verso, 160 pp., $14.95) These two books appear in a new series, “Revolutions,” published by Verso, a well-known British firm specializing in radical leftist gobbledygook. The books come with introductions by Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian psychoanalyst and social theorist, who assaults both the English language and the intelligence of those who actually manage to figure out what he’s saying. If you think that’s harsh, here’s a representative Žižekian sentence: “The claim that the people does exist is the basic axiom of ‘totalitarianism,’...

Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 8On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult The Epoch Times Dec 26, 2004 This is the eighth of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.ForewordThe collapse of the socialist bloc headed by the Soviet Union in the early 1990s marked the failure of communism after almost a century. However, the CCP unexpectedly survived and still controls China, a nation with one fifth of the world’s population. An unavoidable question arises: Is the CCP today still truly communist? No one in today’s China, including Party members, believes in communism. After...

You've probably heard about the UMass student who claimed that Department of Homeland Security agents visited him after he checked out Mao's Little Red Book from the library. Well, he has now admitted that he made the story up.

"The biggest Asian tiger!" "The new century's economic miracle!" "The next global superpower!" These are some of the clichés used to describe the People's Republic of China which, its Communist political structures notwithstanding, has experienced remarkable economic growth during the past four or five years. In a short time the People's Republic has emerged as the world's second largest importer of crude oil, just behind the United States, the biggest global exporter of textiles, and the world's largest manufacturer of a wide-range of cheap consumer goods. According to some estimates, China, whose population will reach a staggering 1.5 billion people...

/begin my summaryChina:  Gu Yue, 'Mao Zedong on Screen,' is Dead(Beijing, Yonhap News) correspondent Cho Sung-dae -- Gu Yue, an elder Chinese actor, called 'Mao Zedong on Screen,' died of heart attack in San-sui City, Guangdong Province, on July 2nd. He was 68 years old. After Mao's death, for 28 years beginning in 1978, he has played Mao Zedong (on screen.) While staying in San-sui, he suddenly developed trouble in breathing and had heart attack, and was sent to a hospital immediately. However, he was pronounced dead upon arrival, Chinese media reported on July 5th.  /snip.... Born in Han-kou, Hubei Province, he joined army in 1949. After Mao's death in 1976, he was...

Mao Zedong’s grandson, recently a guest on a television show memorializing the end of World War II, shocked audiences by blatantly promoting communism under the guise of historical research. Dr. Mao Xinyu, Mao Zedong’s grandson, was invited to speak on a program commemorating the end of World War II airing on the government controlled television station, CCTV. The program, International Observation, broadcasted the 60th anniversary celebrations marking the end of World War II in Europe on May 7. Dr. Mao told audiences that based on his research, the countries who had made the greatest contributions to World War II were...

Member of China’s notorious Gang of Four dies BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) Zhang Chunqiao, a member of China’s notorious Gang of Four led by the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, died of cancer last month, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday in the first official word in decades on a man previously thought by many to have been dead for years. Zhang had been on medical parole since January 1998 and had died on April 21, Xinhua said without giving further details. He was 88. Members of the Gang of Four were arrested in a bloodless coup one month after...

China website highlights early DPRK-China tensions China-NK relations by Michael Rank If you're a Great Leader it can feel a little uncomfortable having another Great Leader on your doorstep, and a very interesting report in Chinese highlights intense rivalry between Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung in the 1950s and 60s. This short report says North Korea took part in “underground activities” against China's Korean minority after the Korean war in order to instill in them a “fatherland concept and ideology of the leader”, telling them their fatherland was the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and their leader was General Kim...

A Commie Christmas Gift December 23, 2003 Christmas this year is brightened by the news that nominally Communist China has taken a big step toward enshrining private property rights in its constitution. For some reason it reminds me of a Christmas story told by the late Leonard Read, a champion of property rights and market economics. One year, on the day before Christmas, Read greeted his heavily laden mailman and asked him how he was doing. The man groaned, “Worst day we’ve ever had!” Later that day Read went to a local store for a bit of last-minute shopping. It...

The first thing one notices about Qin Xiao-meng is her warm smile, set upon a face that reflects a sense of peace and fulfillment. It is not outwardly apparent that the 80-year-old woman suffered years of hardship and persecution during China's tumultuous Communist Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976. She was branded a "bourgeois authority" for her career as an English professor. The revolution also affected her husband and oldest brother, accused of being spies, and her father, whose life work was taken away by revolutionary rebels. And there are more stories, many more. Qin's "Heartbeats and Heartaches: Memoirs of...

The cult of Mao Zedong re-emerged with a bang and a flash yesterday as tens of thousands of worshippers paid homage in the "great helmsman's" hometown to mark the 110th anniversary of his birth. In a remarkable display of idolatry for an atheist nation, visitors burned incense and lit bonfires of offerings before bowing deeply before a huge golden statue of the former party chairman, whose presence is growing stronger nearly 28 years after his death. From midnight to early afternoon, revellers set off tonnes of deafening firecrackers and fireworks in a spontaneous festival to celebrate Mao's birth. Most appeared...

SHANGHAI, China - He dismissed capitalists as "running dogs," banned private property and sent millions to prison camps — or worse — for showing an interest in making money. But now an incongruous new identity beckons for Mao Zedong: management guru. With the 110th anniversary of his birth on Friday, books, articles and seminars are mining Mao's struggles and writings for tips on how to get ahead in business, melding a national interest in his life with China's modern craze for making money. The Communist Party is pitching in, publishing four volumes on Mao as a guerrilla problem-solver. "Mao offers...

  Mao Zedong Thought in Chinese university students' eyes Nowadays, in China's universities, the film "Infernal Affairs" from Hong Kong, the pop band "F4" from Taiwan and bluetooth cell phone are the hot topics among students born in the 1980s. However, when trying to express their firm stand, studnets still like to say "swear by Chairman Mao." In fact, the influence of Mao Zedong, who was born 110 years ago, on the youth is not merely represented in what they say. Cheng Haowen, an astronomic major at Nanjing University in east China's Jiangsu Province said that what is precious in...

Nixon made his famous trip to China 30 years ago, although the anniversary was several months ago (February?). In the process of opening up to China, Taiwan, one of America's very best friends, was tossed aside like a gum wrapper. Taiwan is now a democracy. Was Kissinger's diplomacy in the Middle East, Rhodesia, South America, USSR and Vietnam a success?

<p>Before September 11, the Bush Administration seemed to be treating China as one of the biggest threats that the U.S. faced worldwide. There was the incident of the U.S. spy plane that went down on China's Hainan Island as well as President Bush's talk about doing whatever it takes to defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression. Republicans talked about treating China as a competitor rather than as the partner envisioned by former President Bill Clinton.</p>