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NEWS ABOUT: Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong stories: 11 news summaries

Beck Moves Obama From 'Hitler' to 'Mao'

Hollywood in cahoots with the prez to force us to volunteer

Oct 20, 09 7:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Apparently, Hollywood’s dumb-named “iParticipate” campaign is the worst thing since the Great Leap Forward. Sixty network shows will work volunteerism and community service into the plot this week, and in Glenn Beck’s mind, this, coupled with Obama's own push for volunteerism, is the stuff conspiracies are made... More »

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Barack Obama • Hollywood • volunteerism • Fox News • community service • volunteer • Glenn Beck • entertainment industry • Mao Zedong

worth crying over

White House Doesn't Take Glenn Beck 'Very Seriously'

Administration not sweating Fox host's campaign against Anita Dunn

Oct 16, 09 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fox talking head Glenn Beck has White House communications director Anita Dunn in his crosshairs, but the administration isn't exactly sweating. "I caught some of that from the Glenn Beck show yesterday, but I don't think anybody takes it—takes his attacks very seriously," the deputy White House... More »

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White House • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Mao Zedong • Obama administration • President Obama • Anita Dunn

White House-Fox Spat Now Involves ... Mao

In old video, communications director Anita Dunn calls Chinese leader a favorite

Oct 16, 09 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - That was quick. The White House sent communications director Anita Dunn after Fox over the weekend, and now an old video has surfaced—much to the delight of Glenn Beck and others—in which she calls Mao one of her "favorite political philosophers." In a speech to high... More »

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White House • Fox News • Michelle Malkin • Mother Teresa • Glenn Beck • Mao Zedong • Obama administration • conservative media • Van Jones • Anita Dunn

SLIDESHOW

 Massive Parade Marks 
 China's 60th Birthday 



Huge festivities combine modern power with Communist kitsch

Oct 1, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A massive procession of tanks, troops, and nuclear missile launchers paraded through Beijing today, 60 years after Mao Zedong stood in Tiananmen Square and proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. The rigorously choreographed procession combined old-school Communist imagery—including tens of thousands of children flipping colored cards... More »

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China • Beijing • Communist Party • Hu Jintao • Mao Zedong • Chinese Communist party • parade • People's Republic of China

'Grandson Mao' Rises Through Army Ranks

Chairman's heir becomes youngest-ever general

Sep 25, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chairman Mao's grandson and only surviving male heir looks unlikely to ever become China's Great Helmsman, but he is rising through the ranks of the People's Liberation Army. At the age of 39 he's the nation's youngest-ever general. Mao Xinyu has no memories of his famous grandfather, who died in... More »

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China • People's Liberation Army • Mao Zedong • Chinese Communist party • Chinese military • Mao Xinyu

(Newser) - The woes of international capitalism are fueling renewed interest in the ur-texts of Chinese Communism, MSNBC reports. Sales of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and Mao’s “little red book” are skyrocketing in China, where the publisher of Kapital has seen a fivefold increase in sales since... More »

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China • capitalism • global economy • Communism • Karl Marx • Mao Zedong • economic crisis • Das Kapital • little red book

(Newser) - There are two time zones in Kashgar, China, and they’re two hours apart. Which you follow depends not on geographic location, but on ethnic identity. The town’s dominant Muslim Uighur minority refuses to set its clocks by China’s single, standardized time, instead using the same wacky, sun-based... More »

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China • time zones • Mao Zedong • ethnic tensions • Uighurs

Obituary

 Mao Successor Hua Dies at 87

'Gang of Four' arrest credited with preventing civil war

Aug 20, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hua Guofeng, the man who succeeded Mao Zedong as China’s second Communist leader, died today at age 87, the Daily Telegraph reports. Guofeng was most noted for arresting the “Gang of Four,” a group of radicals, led by Mao’s widow, bent on miring China in... More »

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China • obituary • Mao Zedong • Chinese Communist party

Ping-Pong Got Ball Rolling to Beijing Games

Two players braved Sino-US frost with landmark '71 visit

Jun 12, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't statesmen who broke China's 22 years of isolation from the West in 1971, but rather, Sports Illustrated notes, grown men with paddles. When Glenn Cowan accidentally jumped on the Chinese team bus during world table-tennis championships in Japan, star Zhuang Zedong brushed aside Mao's anti-capitalist harangues to greet... More »

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China • United Nations • United States • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Mao Zedong • Ping Pong diplomacy • table tennis

Mao Offered US 10M Chinese Women

He joked to Kissinger
in 1973 that his nation had way too many

Feb 13, 08 9:54 PM CST
(Newser) - China’s Mao Zedong once jokingly offered the US 10 million women from his poor, overpopulated country to kickstart bilateral trade, the BBC reports. Other talks covered the Soviet threat, but during one chummy meeting with Henry Kissinger in Beijing in 1973, Mao said China’s female influx produced too... More »

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China • Soviet Union • Henry Kissinger • Chinese women • Mao Zedong • bilateral trade

NAACP Blasts MLK Sculptor

Says Chinese artist hails from, glorifies abusive country

Nov 28, 07 11:29 AM CST
(Newser) - California’s NAACP chapter has condemned the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial planned for the National Mall, saying the choice of a Chinese artist “is in direct opposition to Dr. King’s philosophy.” Lei Yixin not only hails from the country “with the worst record of human... More »

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Vietnam • African Americans • National Mall • Martin Luther King Jr. • Maya Lin • Mao Zedong • Lei Yixin • Vietnam War Memorial

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