FIVE YEARS ago, China bid farewell to a brutal relic of Mao’s rule: the laojiao, or reeducation-through-labor camps that had been used since the 1950s to punish minor criminals and all kinds of ...

The propaganda poster is one of the most iconic in the People’s Republic of China. Based on a painting by Liu Chunhua commissioned during the Cultural Revolution, it marks the moment in 1922 ...

Grounded in Mao’s philosophy of revolution, re-educative labor camps mushroomed across the country after the infamous Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957, a major turning point in party rule. The Campaign ...

China’s cabinet, the State Council, and the powerful Central Committee quietly announced joint guidelines on March 26 to improve China’s “labor education.” ...

After Mao died in 1979, the Laogai system was gradually dismantled and most political prisoners, including Wu, were released. By 2013, the Chinese government officially turned away from using ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The USA, counting from the Declaration of Independence, is only 236 years old. China has 6,000 years of continuous, historical ...

That's probably overstating the case, but the pendulum certainly did begin to swing in 1978 when Mao's successor, Deng Xiaoping, famously said that "to get rich is glorious." ...

And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds.

Most people always believed the official line that Mao was the man who transformed China — a heroic leader, even if he did some bad things. The real Mao, we discover, did horrendous things.

“Hold fast to freedom in the wind and rain” are lyrics from “Glorious Days,” a rock song by the Hong Kong band Beyond that has become an anthem of sorts for political protests in the region.

China's Xi Says Socialism Will Defeat Capitalism Because Communist Party Is 'Glorious' Published Apr 01, 2019 at 12:30 PM EDT Updated Apr 01, 2019 at 2:29 PM EDT By ...