The Opium Wars weren’t just about drugs they were about power, profit, and empire. This video series breaks down how ...

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

Trump “sees China as the winner of the international modern order, but Xi Jinping sees China as its victim,” said Julia ...

In 1969, the longtime foreign correspondent recalled a youthful adventure in which she moved to China, keen on becoming an ...

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

In January 1868 an expedition assembled at Bhamo, a Burmese market town just 30 miles from the Yunnan border. Led by Major Edward Sladen, its initial target was the Muslim-controlled city of Tengyue ...

The great popular historian Barbara Tuchman, in her book Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945, examines in detail America’s efforts to use and shape China after the fall of the Qing ...

As far back as 206 BCE, China traded along the Silk Road, a network of Asian trade routes that lasted into the 15th century. Trade items featured silk, porcelain, and tea. After the U.S. Revolution, ...