The slogan—a sarcastic play on the "Great Leap Forward," the disastrous economic and social campaign carried out from 1958 to 1962 by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong—has become a mainstay on ...

Thanks to Gerald Farrington’s recent Op-Ed comparing Trump’s policies with Mao’s Great Cultural Revolution. Earlier, Mao led the Great Leap Forward to increase agricultural and industrial outputs to ...

IN 1958, UNDER the rule of Mao Zedong, China began the Great Leap Forward, a four-year attempt to transform the country from an agrarian society into a modern industrialised one. It was a disaster: ...