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The British Clerk Who Tried to Spark a Chinese Revolution

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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'

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

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

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

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.

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