A year after Deng Xiaoping stepped down as China's paramount ... China was reeling from the chaos and upheaval of Mao ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping feels high-speed railways are a powerful tool for social cohesion, political influence, and the ...

Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

IN 1993, Deng Xiaoping walked across the newly opened 8,354-metre bridge ... From the middle of a river, you can see clearly the developmental and cultural fault lines that are markers of a city’s ...

The regime of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad — whose family ruled Syria for half a century — collapsed under continued pressure from rebel forces led by the alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS ...

AS 2024 draws to a close, we take a look at the lives of prominent businessmen who died this year, and their legacies which ...

Kang was posthumously disgraced and expelled from the Party for his role in the Cultural Revolution and his early criticism of Deng Xiaoping.

Deng Xiaoping. Twice purged himself, Deng had seen the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. The 1980s were an extraordinary decade. Deng Xiaoping was radically changing the relationship of the ...

While still in the thralls of the Cultural Revolution and a long way from the powerhouse ... the Fall of the Gang of Four, the resurrection of Deng Xiaoping and the early years of the establishment of ...

the Cultural Revolution and the death of Chairman Mao, to its dynamic rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. The latest edition of the book includes a new introduction and a seventh chapter ...

History is full of strange coincidences! Join us as we explore fascinating instances where significant events occurred ...

Unlike Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping did not pretend to be a poet ... Deng was himself denounced during the Cultural Revolution, a decade of willed chaos ably and critically covered by the authors. Even ...