China

J.A. Boyle describes how the Venetian traveller’s account of his travels sometimes tried his friends’ credulity.

The cold but continuing conflict between China and Japan is the subject of sustained attention from scholars, says Jonathan Fenby.

H. Hookham introduces Augustus F. Lindley, a contemporary and opponent of General Gordon’s, who served the Taipings during their nineteenth century rebellion against the Manchu dynasty.

Roger Hudson tells the story behind a moment of violence in 1923 outside China's Forbidden City in Peking.

For nearly two hundred years Jesuit missionaries held a privileged position at the court of the Chinese Emperors, C.R. Boxer writes, where they laboured not only as fishers of men, but as astronomers, mathematicians, portrait-painters and skilful architects.

Richard Harris describes the various forces of change at play in China's tumultuous first half century.

Why did the Chinese Emperor Wu send a military expedition to Ta Yüan in 102 BC to capture the  ‘Heavenly Horses’?

Nora C. Buckley explains how, during the 15th century, Chinese seafarers were active in Indian and African trade. 

John Villiers describes the rich exchange of artistic ideas between Europe and the Far East during the seventeenth, eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. 

Ts’ên Shên was one of the celebrated poets of the T’ang dynasty. Here, Arthur Waley explores his body of work and the tumultuous career that propelled it.