About 280 kilometers from Beijing lies Beidaihe, a resort with a Benidorm-like aesthetic that every summer welcomes thousands ...

SHANGHAI, China — The painting of Mao Tse-tung as a Renaissance saint was too risky for the Shanghai 2000 Biennial. The photo of a man eating a dead baby was too disturbing. The works, rejected ...

Communist China — A Short History The People’s Republic turns 75 well launched on a new Long March aimed at the defeat of the free democracies and the rise to global eminence of the heirs to Mao.

Li Rui, who died in 2019 at the age of 101, held a number of important positions within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, including personal secretary to longtime leader Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong died in the early hours of Sept. 9, 1976. He had led the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than four decades and served as head of state since the establishment of the People’s ...

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 11, 2024, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Ross Terrill, 85, Leading Expert on Communist China.