Napoleon was crowned in December 1804 and 11 years later, in June 1815, lost at Waterloo. In these 11 years, he united Europe ...

Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) was from Sichuan province in China and nine years younger than Mao Zedong ... and Deng was lucky. He was a man of wisdom and patience who endured and survived humiliation.

A year after Deng Xiaoping stepped down as China's paramount leader, Mindy Guo took a risk and left her secure job in the ...

The trouble with leaders growing long in the tooth, from Napoleon to Putin, is that in the end, every hero becomes a bore ...

Napoleon was crowned in December 1804 and eleven years later, in June 1815, lost at Waterloo. In these eleven years, he ...

Deng spent a year at the Sun Yat-sen University ... After six ears abroad, Deng Xiaoping was no longer the naive young man he had been before he left China. He was now a staunch revolutionary ...

Deng returned on the eve of the breakdown of co-operation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the political situation was unstable. It was under these circumstances that in March ...

On the surface, there is little that connects Xi Jinping’s PRC to that of Mao and Deng. But a closer examination of Xi’s rejuvenation strategy reveals an enduring set of political and economic ...

An economic reformer and close ally of Deng Xiaoping, Hu had led the efforts to launch China into capitalism and to recover from the years under ... “The great man has gone but the spirit ...