In any air clash with U.S. Navy and Air Force jets over Southeast Asia, Mao’s planes would certainly be swept from the skies in a matter of days. Even the Chinese Nationalists, flying slow F-86 ...

By comparing these two seemingly unrelated historical contexts, the discussion, moderated by Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell, will shed light on ...

The deadline to enter the 2015 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia is Sunday, March 15. To enter or nominate a journalist, click here. The film also includes footage of young ...

Ahead of the conference, Wu chatted with Asia Blog about learning her craft in Mao’s China, and how she’s come to see music as “the universal language.” This interview has been edited for length and ...

But the crucial difference between the two occasions is in the strangely strengthened position of the man who was personally responsible for it all—Mao Tsetung. In October, 1959, Mao ...

Our expert guest speaker draws parallels with the chaotic Cultural Revolution in China in 1966. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

‘Mao and his comrades,’ Chen Jian argues ... At the same time, he came to see India as a major ideological rival in both Asia and the Third World.’ If, in 1956, Beijing still viewed ...