Zhou Enlai: Mao’s Enigmatic Shadow
How important was China’s senior diplomat to his nation’s rise to global power, or is it too early to say?
China
The Communist’s Holiday
An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.
A Uighurs’ History of China
The repression in China’s Xinjiang region has deep historical roots.
The Unravelling of Sino-Japanese Relations
The story of China and Japan, and the periodic efforts to find a modus vivendi.
Famine Within Reach
How China’s landscape prevented even greater losses in the Great Famine.
He Xian Gu
The Taoist Immortal.
A New Line in Empire
Though much of the West has withdrawn from empire, one of the world’s rising powers offers the latest twist on imperialism.
CSI: China
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a revolution in Chinese forensic science, when traditional techniques were replaced by new methods from the West. Today, the world confronts another moment of transformation in forensic science.
Tsinghua University Founded
Reparations paid by the Chinese to the US following the Boxer Rebellion were used to open Tsinghua University in Beijing on 11 April, 1911.
Chapters in China’s Long History
A multi-authored and beautifully illustrated volume endeavours to find detailed answers to complex questions about modern Chinese history.