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Chinese history
The British Clerk Who Tried to Spark a Chinese Revolution
By David Leffman
The life and confessions of Charles Welsh Mason.
How Xi’an’s Past Became a Blueprint for Its Future
By Erin Dunne
Public memory as a tool of development in Xi’an.
What Might a Chinese World Order Look Like?
By Xue Li and Cheng Zhangxi
Using the ancient concept of Li to understand a Chinese order.
How a British Historian and Hungarian Writer Predicted the Soviet Fall and China’s Rise
By Francis P. Sempa
In the early 1970s, Arnold Toynbee and George Urban foresaw two of the developments that would shape the 21st century.
The Enduring Relevance of America's Reckoning With the Qing Dynasty
By Robert Farley
To some extent, the United States is still captured by the romantic notion of a “mission” with China.
Zheng He's Voyages and the Symbolism Behind Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative
By Paul Musgrave and Daniel Nexon
What explains Xi's Belt and Road push? Above all, it may about domestic political legitimacy for the Chinese Communist Party.
What China Can Learn from Its First 18 Party Congresses
By Sergey Radchenko
Chinese Communist Party Congresses have not been smooth or regular occurrences over the last 96 years.
Why Did China Add 6 Years to the Second Sino-Japanese War?
By Jing Yu
What the revision to Chinese history textbooks tells us about China.
China, Spanish America, and the 'Birth of Globalization'
By Francis P. Sempa
A review of The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalization, 1565-1815
China's Tangled Environmental History
By Jonathan Schlesinger
Qing Dynasty conquests led to an unprecedented rush for resources, but also laid the roots for modern conservation.
Two Chinas: The Nomenklatura and the Rest
By Francis P. Sempa
China's elites are unable to reckon with the concerns of ordinary Chinese, much like the Soviet nomenklatura.
Revealed: The Truth About China's Legendary Xia Dynasty
By Akhilesh Pillalamarri
New evidence suggests that the so-called "Xia" dynasty may not be a myth.