It was the Prada of its time, with the best-quality Mao suits and the most prestigious clientele in China: Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Deng Xiaoping and Chou En Lai shopped there. Ordinary Beijing ...

It was soon to be known the world over as ‘the Mao suit’. The suit gained its notoriety through its connection with the Chairman, Chinese communism, and the people themselves, who would all ...

The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit -- is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the old ...

"He can be ideological at times. He is somewhat of an introvert." The Mao suit was invented not by Chairman Mao, but rather by nationalist leader Sun Yat-Sen. In China, it's known as the "Sun ...

The image of choice is usually Chairman Mao in his later years, portly with a receding hairline, looking sombre in a traditional "Mao suit". Occasionally he beams out from the infamous "sun ...

And, as in the West, clothes maketh the leader in China as well. Chairman Mao's charcoal-grey "Mao suit" grew into an icon of the 1970s. The suit was actually a "Sun Yat-sen suit", named after the ...

The photos present Tseng standing stiffly in that suit, wearing sunglasses ... ambassador,” adopted three years after Chairman Mao’s death and seven years after President Richard Nixon ...

There was no fashion shame in wearing a Mao suit. No child has been reproached for asking who is the most powerful cat in China. (Chairman Miaow.) As Julia Lovell of Birkbeck, University of London ...

"The older villagers still have a deep affection for Chairman Mao," explains Zhou ... For Zhou, the work of guarding Mao's bronze statue suits him well. He even gave up a job with a higher salary ...

David Bunnell staged the mutiny that started PCWorld—and he once famously wore a Chairman Mao suit to a company meeting. As we mourn Bunnell’s passing on October 18, PCWorld’s launch and the ...