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 ...

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 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.

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… ...

Edward Goldman talks porcelain and politics in this commentary on Craft & Folk Art Museum's excellent current exhibitions.

China's former leader Chairman Mao Zedong has had various incarnations: guerrilla fighter, political leader, mass murderer and pop-art icon. Now, 32 years after his death, in perhaps the most ...

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.

A Chinese basketball club has been fined one million yuan (£107,000) after being accused of disrespecting the country's founding father Chairman Mao in a poster. The flyer, released by the ...

My passion for the posters began when I was eight years old. One day I brought home from school a poster of Chairman Mao.

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 ...

When he was in power, propaganda posters depicted Mao Zedong’s smiling face as “the red sun in the center of our hearts.” In the late 1980s and early ’90s, imbued with a sor… ...