The CBC noted that the new Chinese ambassador to Canada appeared wearing a Mao suit to present his credentials to the Governor-General, representative of Queen Elizabeth II. In the recent past ...

Many in China might rather forget the chaotic and bloody decades under the rule of Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic. But 70 years after he declared the founding of Communist China, his ...

For decades people in China modelled themselves on Chairman Mao who wore a simple workers outfit in blue or grey known as the Mao Suit MAOS NEW SUIT charts the course of two Beijing fashion designers ...

The final piece of the Asia Society’s exhibition “Art and China’s Revolution” was installed over the weekend: a 10-foot-tall sculpture of a Mao jacket, by the artist Sui Jianguo, which will stand on a ...

BEIJING — The Chinese leader, wearing a dark Mao suit, and the American president, in a black tuxedo, stood side by side with arms aloft at the Kennedy Center. Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter smiled ...

Wired magazine’s Raw File photo blog features Tommaso Bonaventura’s pictures of modern-day Mao lookalikes: “They don’t belong to real agencies.” says Bonaventura. “The one double from Beijing works ...

The Party is having a party. Who’s invited? About 1.4bn people. Is there a dress code? Not quite. In its centenary year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has lost some of its zeal for sartorial ...