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Opium Wars Mapped

Using Google Earth as our lens, we trace the Opium Wars by mapping the ports, river systems, and fortified positions that ...
The Diplomat

A Murder in Yunnan: Revisiting the Margary Affair

In January 1868 an expedition assembled at Bhamo, a Burmese market town just 30 miles from the Yunnan border. Led by Major ...

How China’s Qing dynasty brought both great wealth and humiliation to the nation

China’s final dynasty saw the arts and economy thrive under Manchu rule. But internal and external struggles corroded ...