Chairman Mao Zedong died over forty years ago. In the four decades since, China has been
totally transformed into a country that Mao would not recognize. Unleashed by Deng …

Mao Zedong was indisputably one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. The
revolution he led transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese and, as this study …

No matter how people judge him, no one can deny the importance of Mao Zedong in
twentieth-century Chinese history; indeed, he also holds a significant position in twentieth …

The first quarter century of communist rule in China was dramatic and disastrous, the mark of
a po liti cal regime whose extremism created a distinctive epoch in the history of revolution …

The impact of more than two decades of reform in China has become a familiar story, so
familiar in fact that it is easy to lose sight of how spectacular and sweeping the changes …

Most observers hold a positive view of China's reform since 1978 but are critical of the
policies of the era of Mao Zedong, ignoring the inseparable connections between the two …

In an interview celebrating the centennial of Mao Zedong's birth, Chinese leader Bo Yibo
acknowledged that" how to evaluate Mao's thought and his historical position has been a …

Mao has the distinction, along with Gandhi, of being one of the very small number of non-
European po liti cal leaders to achieve brand-name status in the twentieth century. Mao has …

Editor's preface. It is unusual for The China Quarterly to publish anything in unfinished form,
but the provenance of this piece by Jack Gray is equally unusual. In the second half of the …

This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously
unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power and his …