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Just as India is torn between the academician's truth and the politician's truth, so is China. But relative to India's history which is strongly based on diversity, Chinese history is a product of ...

Severe droughts and floods in 9th-century China may have triggered migration, weakened border defenses, and accelerated the fall of the Tang dynasty.

China was hermetically closed for decades after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Even today, access to primary sources, not least party archives, remains haphazard at best. The party ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...

A few trees and a dry rock reservoir are all that remains of Chinese immigrant Sun Mei’s mountainside ranch and farm in Kula. However, as festivities celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Kwock Hing ...