In the 1920s, China was divided among powerful warlords, revolutionary factions, and foreign powers. Chiang Kai-shek rose ...
BEIJING (AP) — Photos of Mao’s archenemy Chiang Kai-shek adorn the walls of a Beijing restaurant, and his face looks up at diners from the menu. Online, the deposed Chinese leader’s image is used to ...
The Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Mao Zedong’s Communists defeating Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists despite major disadvantages on paper. The video examines how land reform, discipline, ...
In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing ...
A massive historical militaria and autograph auction kicking off tomorrow features two incredibly rare relics that together could fetch $165,000. One is a letter and envelope from the founding father ...
The handshake between then US president Richard Nixon and chairman Mao Zedong half a century ago was hailed at the time as a historic moment. But for Chiang Ching-kuo, Taiwan's then vice-premier and ...
Like Mao Zedong, Chiang had dreams of national glory informed by the harsh realities of his youth. Born in 1887 in a remote farm village in the eastern province of Zhejiang, he began working at the ...
Mao Zedong held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population was also responsible the deaths of well over 70 million deaths. This is more than any other twentieth-century ...