China’s state-run media has recently been hinting that Zhou and Bo Xilai, the former Chongqing Party secretary convicted of corruption last year, were plotting together to seize power.

Zhou, 72, also received seven years for abusing power and four years for deliberately revealing state secrets. Party investigators also accused Zhou of having affairs with multiple women, and ...

A government-controlled Chinese newspaper linked Zhou Yongkang to a corruption probe for the first time, signaling that an official announcement of an investigation into the ex-security chief may ...

1045-ca 770 BC - Zhou dynasty replaces Shang as dominant force across northern China, ca 770 BC - Zhou state collapses into loose association of warring states, known as the Eastern Zhou.