Mao's Great Leap Forward, an economic policy, led to the deaths of up to 45 million people. Adhering to communist ideals, the state seized control of production. Private farmland was confiscated ...

In the early 1970s, China was supplying significant military, financial, and logistical assistance to North Vietnam in its ...

Forty years after his death, the legacy of Mao Zedong continues to deeply divide China. The official verdict from Beijing is that Mao was 70 percent correct and 30 percent wrong.