With Donald Trump’s reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, ...

The first traveling group exhibition of Saudi contemporary art was inaugurated at the historic Paço Imperial in Rio de ...

To absorb the profound history of China's capital ... In Beijing, participants were treated to imperial-style banquets at Gvsai Beise Mansion and Family Li Imperial Cuisine, where they gained ...

China. This paper studies the relationship between military conflicts and state-building in pre-imperial China. I develop an incomplete contract model to examine rulers’ and local administrators’ ...

BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- As Hungarian tourist Peter Tuli wandered through Jingshan Park in downtown Beijing, his gaze was ...

Utterly ruthless, fiercely driven to return his country to global dominance and no lover of the UK, Xi Jinping's past should ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates ...

In the ancient Chinese calendar, the year corresponding to AD1 is called yuan shi yuan nian, or the “first year of a primordial beginning”. The official reign name, which symbolises a new ...

1911: The Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking amid much bloodshed ... A youth team is fielded and they lose 4-0. 2021: China and the US announce plans to work together on cutting greenhouse gas ...

With the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, capitalism developed in Europe and large businesses came into being. European countries expanded their colonies in Asia and Africa. By ...

The ROC has ruled Taiwan since Imperial Japan surrendered to end World War II in 1945 and relinquished control of Taiwan. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing did not come into existence ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace ... the site and better understand its history, or at the very least, purchasing ...