NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Jiang Zemin, who died on Wednesday, catapulted China into the modern world. During his 15 years as Communist Party chief, president and head of the army ...

China is holding a memorial service for its late leader Jiang Zemin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. We reflect on his legacy and what the controversial leader means for today's China.

People watched Jiang's memorial service on TV in Taizhou, Jiangsu province China has bid its farewell to former leader Jiang Zemin in a state memorial service in Beijing. Jiang, who took power ...

Languages: English and Chinese. You can get in touch with John by emailing j.feng@newsweek.com Jiang Zemin, China's former leader who died Wednesday at age 96, is all but certain to receive a ...

On Monday, a funeral ceremony for Jiang, who led China through a period of breakneck economic development from 1989 to 2002, was held at a military hospital in Beijing before he was cremated at ...

Jiang Zemin, who died Nov. 30 at age 96, presided over a period of extraordinary economic growth that by some measures tripled the size of China’s economy. (Video: Jason Aldag/The Washington ...

Jiang's death comes at tumultuous time in China Some Chinese express nostalgia for Jiang era as time of optimism Jiang was plucked from obscurity to head Communist Party Jiang broke China out of ...

Jiang's death, smack in the middle of the most visible demonstrations since that 1989 bloodshed on Tiananmen Square, illuminates how much has changed between the China of the late 1990s and early ...

Following a series of unprecedented protests against Covid restrictions, Jiang Zemin's death comes at an uncertain moment for China. As someone inextricably linked to Tiananmen - he came to power ...

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