The Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Museum, which once portrayed the leader as a revolutionary icon, now presents him as an incorruptible leader. What this shift in emphasis says about contemporary China.

But while the Comrade Mao Museum tells us that Mao was a good official, it does not explain how to be one today. You can sing red songs, the museum seems to suggest, but for the truly great men of ...

Zhang opened the museum to the public for free on Dec 23, 2007, three days before the anniversary of Mao's birth, which falls on Friday. It has attracted more than 300,000 visitors over the past ...

Museum to honour Mao in hometown By Guan Xiaofeng (China Daily) Updated: 2005-12-27 06:08. A museum to exhibit the belongings of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong is to be built in his hometown.

BEIJING -- China's National Museum said it has acquired the most prominent portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, apparently ending a controversy over the painting's attempted sale. The ...

Following its autumn-long appearance on Park Avenue in Manhattan, a 10-foot eponymous Mao jacket was installed on Bates’ own busy thoroughfare, Alumni Walk, on Dec. 5. On loan to Bates for a year, the ...

The mood at the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong’s birthday is relatively muted, by Chinese standards. ... This photo taken last year shows Mao Zedong memorabilia at a museum.

A museum in a Chengdu sidestreet, stuffed to the rafters with Mao memorabilia, has a 75-year-old owner who is seeking to pass it on.

At this shrine of Chinese communism where Mao Tse-tung was born and is still worshiped as the Red Sun, the locals have reconciled capitalist ventures with Mao’s chaste collectivism. Nestled a… ...

Perhaps the museum's most surprising benefactor is the Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, who comes from Shantou. He donated about £20,000 towards the cost of the project.

The writer Lu Xun—considered China's first modern author—devoted his life to bringing a revolution to China. Michael Ybarra visits the Lu Xun Museum and Lu Xun Final Residence, both in Shanghai.

The mood at the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong’s birthday is relatively muted, by Chinese standards. ... This photo taken last year shows Mao Zedong memorabilia at a museum.