The Shanghai Race Club
Though horse racing was a symbol of British colonialism, it became a surprisingly inclusive pastime in China’s major International Settlement.
China
No Such Thing
Are China and Hong Kong one country, one history?
Behind the Mask
The Chinese government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic reveals much about its memory of the humiliations of the 19th century.
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?
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Though much of the West has withdrawn from empire, one of the world’s rising powers offers the latest twist on imperialism.