News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 month ago
Six decades after it was founded, the People's Republic of China has made some remarkable achievements. A backward, impoverished state in 1949, it has risen dramatically to now command respect and awe — but such success has come at great cost to...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
When Chinese leader Mao Zedong declared in 1949 that China had stood up, the world's most populous nation was an agrarian society still trying to recover from the devastation of its civil war. For over two decades, Maoist China tried to break away...
News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
The publication this year of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang . contains important insights into modern China by the leader who for almost 15 years played a key role in the management of its economy.