Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

In 1961, the Americans place nuclear missiles in their bases in Italy and Turkey, and CIA tries to overthrow Cuba’s cigar-smoking president ... under Mao Zedong had waged war with America ...

Simon Garfield passed up the opportunity to buy a lithograph from the artist's school days. He's been following it around ever since ...

She describes her life as a “Chinese fairytale”, but there’s more to Monika Tu than just glitz, glamour and a fabulously ...

With her father, Guang Shan Tu, and mother, Shu Xian Wu, in 1978.Credit: Courtesy of Monika Tu After Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong died ... she’s absolutely smoking crack.” ...