A petite, short-haired woman prone to mood swings, the defendant was charged with murder. Although her charismatic husband was nowhere nearby, the case reflected on the powerful leader whose communist ...

Gavin McCrea had literally just finished work on his excellent second novel, The Sisters Mao, when he was viciously attacked in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. In February 2020, the much-heralded ...

The last time the Chinese Communist Party put one of its leading wives on trial it was the fiery Madame Mao, accused of a leading role in the persecution of precisely 727,420 people during the ...

The author is the CEO of China Lab. “Will Peng Liyuan be the next Jiang Qing?” many Chinese people are often asking. The question is about whether Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

Several years ago, at his studio in Woodside, Queens, the global-contemporary artist Zhang Hongtu (b. 1943) spoke frankly of his experiences as a young trainee at the high school attached to the ...