The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has convened, and General Secretary Xi Jinping appears set ... pitch as rural reformers, Mao Zedong and his fellow revolutionary icons ...

In fact, it was a 2016 Economist cover that seems to have placed their website beyond the Great Firewall; this particular cover showed Xi Jinping standing in a Mao suit, with crowds behind holding ...

Getty Images L-R: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping Hu Jintao - Mr Jiang's successor and Mr Xi's immediate predecessor - was never referred to as the party's "core".

The Mao suit has a fascinating history ... focus less on the Chinese Communist Party and more on its figurehead Xi Jinping. The growing cultivation of a personality cult is reminiscent of the ...

The new title, and an unofficial rule that would see most of the Standing Committee soon retire, meant Xi was now expected to succeed then-president Hu. According to a government profile on Xi ...

BEIJING--Chinese President Xi Jinping is poised to secure an historic ... of “great helmsman,” a monicker used in the past for Mao Zedong. There is a possibility that Xi’s new title could ...

President Xi Jinping has been elevated to the same status as Mao Zedong in a shift that might shed some light on the country's economic future. Analysts argue the political leadership is becoming ...