That power reached a zenith in 1966, when millions thronged to hear Chairman Mao incite the Cultural Revolution. Yet a decade later, Tiananmen Square became the site of mass protest against Mao's ...

The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit -- is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the old ...

(MoneyWatch) The mass pro-democracy protests that erupted in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 ... followed the death of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976. Two years later, his ...

Tiananmen Square is among the world's most famous public spaces. Almost anyone can recognize the Gate of Heavenly Peace emblazoned with a portrait of Chairman Mao as a symbol of Beijing.

We go to Beijing to see how Tiananmen Square is reflecting changes in the country. China celebrated its National Day this week, marking 75 years since Chairman Mao proclaimed the founding of the ...

At the Tiananmen Square rally, Song Binbin was publicly praised by Mao for her role in the atrocity ... becoming vice-chairman of the party’s Central Advisory Committee under Deng Xiaoping ...

In 1949, Mao Zedong, standing atop the gate, which overlooks the square, declared the founding ... called “I Love Beijing’s Tiananmen,” in which Chairman Mao will “guide us into the ...

Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions ... His authority waned after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when huge protests in Beijing were finally crushed and hundreds ...

Later, in 2006, Tyson visited the memorial museum for Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. There he paid his respects at the mausoleum and reflected that: “standing in front of Chairman ...

Yan Mingfu, a former top Chinese official who held talks with reform-seeking protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and ... for Chinese leader Mao Zedong in meetings with the Soviet ...

Chairman Mao with Red Guards during the Cultural ... Xiaoping and one of Deng’s most ardent supporters during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. In 2003 Song moved back to China, where ...

China celebrated its National Day this week, marking 75 years since Chairman Mao proclaimed ... We finally made it to Tiananmen Square. We're standing in front of the Mao picture on the north ...