Fishman dubbed as, “China, Inc.” China has been fulfilling Mao’s 1949 proclamation for his regime to, “catch up to Great Britain and beat the Americans.” Mao was not only speaking ...

Some on Twitter took pleasure in posting pictures of Chairman Mao Zedong who during his ... So, did 7 million landlords die during the Great Leap Forward? No, those were mainly peasants and ...

Mao still managed to line up a majority to ... Some of these are legacies of the great leap forward: like the attempts to decentralise economic decision-making and to create self-sufficient ...

Mao had probably heard of Chinese students ... abortive push toward impossible economic quotas such as the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950's. But Party directives have cautioned the Red ...

Take a look at the latest billionaire rankings from Forbes or Bloomberg and you’ll quickly see which countries have no ...

Moments of geopolitical paralysis and indecisiveness on the part of potentially pivotal powers provide an opportunity to get ...

Mao Zedong's Second Visit to the Soviet Union 19. Launching the 'Great Leap Forward' (Part I) 20. Launching the 'Great Leap Forward' (Part II) 21. The Shelling of Jinmen.

Highly Recommended" 3. The onset of collectivization and popular dissatisfaction with Mao's 'yellow bomb' road 4. The mandate abandoned: the disaster of the great leap forward 5. Strategies of ...

Mao's Legacy, a rickety political strategy game from the same studio that put out such bangers as Crisis in the Kremlin, ...

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...

For example, Mao’s disastrous Great Leap Forward, from 1958 to 1962, brought China’s economy to its lowest of lows, at the cost of millions of lives. The World Bank’s annual percentage GDP ...