Mao, Cultural Revolution Cast Long Shadow over China 50 Years On

'Long live Chairman Mao': Supporters pay respects to founder of Communist China

Chairman Mao, the founder of the People's Republic, died on September 9, 1976, and his life and legacy was being commemorated fervently this week by those who still revere him as a visionary leader. As China grapples with a slowing economy, nostalgia is growing for Mao's egalitarian ideals, but his drastic policies are also blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths. Tourists -- many of them university students -- laid chrys…

Mao, Cultural Revolution cast long shadow over China 50 years on

BEIJING, Sept 9 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday marked half a century since the death of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic, who brought roughly a quarter of the world's population under Communist Party rule and whose spectre still haunts Chin...

Fifty years after Mao’s death: the Cultural Revolution and the communes

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that [...]