Westland Books will publish a new biography on the Dalai Lama. Arvind Yadav authored "Eternal Light: The Life and Times of ...

Jung Chang's and Jon Halliday's biography of Mao Zedong called "MAO: The Untold Story" is an important book in ways not envisaged by most biographies. Chang's first book, "Wild Swans: Three ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

Mao Zedong biography paints hair-raising portrait . “It is better to let half the people die so that the other half can eat their fill,” Mao said during the famine provoked by his Great Leap ...

“Mao: A Life” by Philip Short, a massive and balanced biography. “The Long March” by Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, a chronicle of the authors’ 4,000-mile trek across China.

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday talked about their book [Mao: The Unknown Story], published by Knopf. Their biography attempted to dispel myths about Mao Tse-tung perpetuated by the Communist Party ...

Episodes of factional strife are described as Mao’s patient, infallible rectification of internal discord. The violence against critics between 1942 and 1945, during the Yan’an period, is attributed ...

Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao. Xi Jinping, left, with his father, Xi ...

During Mao’s 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, which began as Xi Jinping entered his teens, militant Red Guards abused Xi Zhongxun at public-shaming rallies and, according to party accounts which ...