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

On the 12th of February 1912 Puyi, China’s Last Emperor, abdicated. China now commenced into uncharted political territory: ...

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 ...

Achieving national reunification and safeguarding national dignity have always been the shared will of the more than 1.4 ...

Tensions are rising between China and Japan again over a dispute in the East China Sea. Such tensions are usually over the ...

The Golden Triangle takes part of its name from its location on the border of three countries: Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos.

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

Findings published in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, showed in “definitive evidence” for noscapine, hydrocotarnine, morphine, thebaine, and papaverine — which are all well-known ...

Spanning five stories and more than 25,000 words, “Fentanyl Express” began with a conversation between a reporter and his ...

UConn Draper Chair of American History Manisha Sinha discusses global perspectives on abolition and democracy following a ...

The ongoing blaze has affected a complex of buildings containing 2,000 apartments. The buildings were under renovation and surrounded by bamboo scaffolding, which likely contributed to the flames' ...