What are the political and ethical implications of hanging a poster of Chairman Mao in your office? Steve Gimbel, an associate professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College, was confronted with ...

In the name of Chairman Mao we promise all dishes on the menu are half-price, reads a poster hanging outside the entrance of a restaurant in Nanjing that has a portrait of the former national leader.

BEIJING — It happens every year, under cover of darkness, in the waning days of September. The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and ...

In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.

Another rather provocative exhibition opened at CAFAM a few days ago, an exhibition that makes gentle –– and sometimes not-so-gentle –– fun of Chairman Mao. His famous (or should we say infamous?) ...

Chinese basketball club is fined £100K for 'disrespecting Chairman Mao' after blending the image of its mascot with the leader's portrait in a poster The Zhejiang Guangsha Lions replaced Mao's ...

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… ...

No longer would it be called “The Sun is Reddest, Chairman Mao is Dearest.” Instead, all traces of China’s founding father were quietly scrubbed from posters, ticketing websites and programs.

Anchee Min is the author of "Red Azalea," "Becoming Madame Mao" and the forthcoming "Empress Orchid." This essay will appear as the introduction to "Chinese Propaganda Posters," to be published by ...

Orange Coast College officials have asked the public to help it find a screen print of “Mao,” a 1972 Andy Warhol art piece depicting Chinese Communist Chairman Mao Zedong, which was taken from ...

A print of Andy Warhol's famous portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof art museum in Berlin. (Wikimedia Commons) Today was the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s ...