In the Red Army period, Mao Zedong's wife He Zizhen was a legendary woman. In 1925, 16-year-old He Zizhen became the first female party member and the first woman minister in Yongxin County ...

Bo Gu, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Mao Zedong/ Edgar Snow. Most Red Army soldiers were peasants and workers who joined to "help the poor and save China". Officers and soldiers were equal, ...

No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. ... A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, ...

Retracing Mao Zedong's Long March—by Motorcycle. Drunk officials, ... One of the cadres reached into a battle display to wrest a rifle out of the hands of an inanimate Red Army soldier.

He became leader of the party during the Long March - a Red Army retreat. He founded the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949, ... Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung?

No, never,” crowed Mao Zedong, who, Moses-like, recast his comrades’ retreat as a glorious tale of rebirth. “The Long March has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes.” ...

On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party tourists are flocking to historic sites and making pilgrimages to party landmarks.. On a street where the Red Army once roamed, a group of ...

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell threw a copy of Mao's Little Red Book at George Osborne. What exactly is the tome all about, asks Jon Kelly. "Let's quote from Mao" is not a remark that's commonly ...