China now tries to tame Deng's black and white cats
A huge billboard of China's late leader Deng Xiaoping presides over an intersection in the heart of Shenzhen, part shrine, part tourist attraction and part ad for market reforms.
Nations:China People:Hu Jintao Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Jiang Zemin Activities:China Cultural Revolution China Deng Xiaoping Admin. China Hu Jintao Admin.
2007-02-18
China's icy Harbin rediscovers its Russian roots
Russian swimmer Lyudmila Smolyakova strips down to a bathing suit and flip-flops and prances in front of Chinese tourists bundled up against below-freezing weather before diving into a pool cut into an iced-covered river.
Nations:Russia People:Mao Zedong Activities:China-Russia
2007-02-05
Mao's home province puts sex on the Internet
A school in Mao Zedong's home province, slower than most to adopt reforms that have now swept the country, has launched its first sex education Web site to stop children feeling embarrassed by the subject.
Nations:China People:Mao Zedong
2006-11-21
Tale of two cities on China-N. Korea border
DANDONG, China - Sinuiju and Dandong are like darkness and light. The two cities stare at each other across the Yalu River, the waterway that divides China from North Korea, mirror images of each other but decades apart.
Nations:North Korea China People:Kim Jong Il Mao Zedong Activities:Korea Nuclear Crisis
2006-10-19
Activists condemn website closure in China
More than 100 intellectuals issued a joint statement condemning China's closure of a website co-sponsored by a Hong Kong university noted for political openness.
Nations:China Hong Kong People:Mao Zedong Activities:China Control of Internet
2006-08-03
Last Survivor of China's Gang of Four Dies
BEIJING - Yao Wenyuan, the final surviving member of the Gang of Four that terrorized China during the violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution by persecuting thousands of people, has died, the government said Friday. He was 74.
Nations:China People:Yao Wenyuan Lin Biao Jiang Qing Mao Zedong Activities:China Cultural Revolution
2006-01-06
Biographer says China missed chance to debunk Mao
EDINBURGH - China missed its chance to overturn the legacy of Communist leader Mao Zedong following his death 30 years ago and turn the country into a democratic and economic giant, his iconoclastic biographer Jung Chang said.
People:Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong
2005-08-14
Complex where Mao met Nixon damaged in fire
BEIJING - Part of the villa complex where China's late Communist leader Mao Zedong composed one of his best known poems and entertained former U.S. President Richard Nixon has been ravaged by a fire, state media reported.
People:Richard Nixon Mao Zedong Activities:1972 Nixon China Visit China-U.S.
2004-07-04
Mao's grandson a big chip off the old block
BEIJING - Mao Xinyu seldom calls him grandpa any more. He usually refers to his illustrious forebear as Chairman Mao, or simply Chairman, reserving the full name of China's once-deified leader for when he cites his political canon.
People:Mao Zedong Jiang Zemin
2004-01-13
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