In the second of a two-part series on the top secret Karakoram Highway, a former nurse shares her ex......
The author, a former soldier, reflects on his experiences helping build the top secret Karakoram Hig......
Experts say the recent discovery will help to better understand thousands of years of Chinese civili......
Beef consumption was taboo in much of China for millennia before Western missionaries began evangeli......
The author, a well-known journalist, shares notes from half a lifetime of collecting historic newspa......
Since the 1980s, China’s harsh first emperor has become a popular subject for sensitive, revisionist......
Zhou Xuan appeared on Shanghai’s entertainment scene at exactly the right time. But her good fortune......
The literary tradition Elieen Chang represented was essentially broken off on the Chinese mainland f......
Sister Jiang is one of China’s best known Communist martyrs. How she got that status is a tale fit f......
Known to his Chinese students simply as “Grandpa Fu,” the legendary professor leaves behind a legacy......
Young Chinese are rethinking and reframing their country’s history. Rather than criticize, academics......
With a new generation increasingly burned out by the “996” grind and liberal platitudes of their eld......
Online and on social media, popular historians are helping young Chinese reframe the country’s lefti......
A hundred years ago, Peking University admitted its first female students after a successful open le......
A research group on the maternal roots of China’s only ruling empress sparked the mother of all cont......
“Warrior of Thunder” was pulled from networks following criticism by People’s Daily. Producers defen......
The ruins have long been a potent symbol of China’s “humiliation” at the hands of foreign powers. No......
Faced with the prospect of an imminent Japanese invasion, staff at China’s Palace Museum scrambled t......
The officials who set out to develop the city’s Pudong New Area had big dreams of turning the area i......
After the Japanese invaded in 1937, museum staff protected the collection through bombs and landslid......
