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Ancient Rome had Virgil’s tale of Aeneas as the city’s founder. In South Africa under apartheid, Afrikaners learned that the “great trek” and an 1838 victory over Zulu warriors was the fulfillment of a “covenant.” In China, Mao Zedong is still held up...
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And he is thought to be a huge fan of Hollywood movies, as WikiLeaks and Telegraph say - he is a huge fan of Steven Spielberg’s movies, say, “Saving Private Ryan” and so on. On the other hand he belongs to a grouping which is called princelings which...
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No one knows whether this story will really serve as a model. Which brings me back to Xi Jinping, whose background creates speculation as to whether he might become a political reformer. The vice president's father, Xi Zhongxun, was one of Mao Zedong's...
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There was, in fact, a Zelig-like quality to Mr. Ji’s life. Because he served for more than 20 years as an English-speaking interpreter for China’s leaders, Mr. Ji turns up in numerous historic photographs: on the Tiananmen rostrum in 1971 with Chairman...
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And while China’s anointed chief is a Communist blueblood, he is also someone of wide experience. He was born on June 1st, 1953, the son of a guerrilla revolutionary, Xi Zhongxun. Xi Jinping was the third of four children born to his father’s second wife.
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Mao Zedong would be alarmed if he knew how his countrymen were interpreting some of his words. In 1964 Mao came up with the principle of making the past serve the present and foreign things serve China. So instead of conserving historical buildings...
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China is no longer led by a single “Great Helmsman,” as during the days of Mao Zedong, or even a single “paramount leader,” such as Deng Xiaoping. Instead, China’s leadership today is collective, and no single person, including Xi Jinping, is able to...
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Opium eater adopted a minimalist approach to opium seller, even while the slow poison induced both self-loathing and hatred for the foreign devil. China had once rejoiced in the glories of a good emperor, and suffered the degradations of a bad, but...
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Writers are dragging out every detail they can uncover about his past, including about his celebrated father Xi Zhongxun, a party veteran who was cast into the outer darkness by Mao Zedong in 1962, only to emerge as a right-hand-man of Deng Xiaoping...
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“First was the Soviet Union, which we all know was hegemonic and expansionistic and Marxist and Godless, and they didn’t like apple pie,” he says. “Then it was against…France, for…reasons linked with NATO. Then it was Mao Zedong who was going to blow...
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Headlines Learn about key events in history and their connections to today. On Feb. 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon departed on his historic trip to China, where he met with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai in an attempt to normalize...
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The role is quite different from Leung’s best-known one: Cho Chang in the “Harry Potter” movies. Er Hong comes of age during the Mao Zedong-led period known for horrific violence and oppression. “Through her politically active parents, she is...
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Other winners were a photo of a man climbing a high-voltage tower to protest against housing demolition and a set of 12 photos showing how people commemorate late Chairman Mao Zedong in Hunan, his home province. More than 5,000 photographers from 124...
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Although known as a "princeling," a pejorative term used to describe descendants of national revolutionary heroes who are thought to win their political positions through nepotism, Xi Jinping does have elite credentials. The son of Xi Zhongxun, who was...
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Mao Zedong thought mother tongues were a luxury that communism could ill-afford, so he tried to impose a common language: everyone had to wear Mao suits and speak Mao’s Mandarin. Teachers were forced to teach in it, and children were forced to speak...
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Microbloggers who have rushed to the defence of Wu, whose humble beginnings saw her open a hair salon in 1997, include well-known tycoons, academics and Zhang Sizhi, the 85-year-old defence lawyer of Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing. Zhang argued that Wu...
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Mao Zedong (help·info) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) (also Mao Tse-Tung in Wade-Giles transliteration) was a Chinese Marxist leader and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CCP) from 1945 until his death. He instigated several major socio-political programmes (some through collectivisation), including the Anti-Rightist Campaign,... Full Article
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Supporters of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN-Maoist) carry portraits of former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong during a rally marking the 17th anniversary of the "People's War" in Kathmandu February 13, 2012. According to local media, thousands of communist supporters gathered for a...
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A bronze yak offered by Chinese Mao Zedong to Nicolae Ceausescu exhibited at an auction in Bucharest on January 19, 2012. The auction is called 'Golden Age' in reference to the last years of the Ceausescu's rule, when propaganda pictured a striving Romania whereas in reality people were...
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A statue of the former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong stands in front of an apartment building in the Miyun county, 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Beijing January 31, 2012. China had more city dwellers than rural residents last year for the first time in history, data showed, a...
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Statues of an angel (front), Jesus Christ and late Chinese leader Mao Zedong (L) rest at an outdoor workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing December 7, 2011. Dangcheng applied the traditional stone-carving skills of this rocky party of...
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Workers hang a new portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong (R) at the Tiananmen Gate to replace the old one, which is being removed by a crane, during an annual renovation ahead of National Day, in Beijing September 27, 2011. National Day, which falls on October 1, marks the 62nd...
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Jin Tiehua, a 'red collector' -- or collector of communist memorabilia -- holds an invitation from late Chinese leader Mao Zedong (R) to the former Soviet Union and Mao's ink pad and ink brushes during an exhibition entitled 'glorious days - treasures from People's Republic of China's...
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A wooden ornament featuring a portrait of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong on the Tiananmen Gate, center, and other designs are on sale at at a temple fair in Ditan Park during the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
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Zhou Bin, a Mao Zedong memoribillia collector, moves one of the portraits in a room where he stores some 40,000 items of his Mao collection, in Hefei, central China's Anhui province 07 September 2006. Thirty years after his death Mao may still be regarded by some as the country's...
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Zhou Bin, a Mao Zedong memoribillia collector, cleans one of the Mao busts in his collection of some 40,000 items, in Hefei, central China's Anhui province 07 September 2006. Thirty years after his death Mao may still be regarded by some as the country's greatest modern leader but his...
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In this Sunday Dec. 25, 2011 photo, dancers dressed as Communist Red Army soldiers perform to celebrate the 118th anniversary of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong's birth in Beijing. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT.
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A Japanese flag flies before a portrait of China's former leader Mao Zedong in Tiananmen square during a visit by Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, in Beijing on December 25, 2011. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrived in Beijing December 25 on an official visit expected...
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A museum staff walks past a portrait of late chairman Mao Zedong at a museum in Beijing, China, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.
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An actor featuring China's former Chairman Mao Zedong (C) recreates the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party during an event to celebrate the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai June 30, 2011. ...
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