History
The Second Opium War Reaches Peking
Western memory of the Opium Wars often stops at Canton factories, opium chests, and a few coastal bombardments. Chinese memory does not.
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The Yuan Dynasty Was China’s First Global Century
Western textbooks still treat the Yuan as a foreign interruption: Mongols rode in, Chinese civilisation paused, Ming restored the script. That story flatters a tidy national timeline and misses what actually happened.
History
The Dungan Revolt Belongs Beside the Taiping
If the Taiping Rebellion is the nineteenth century Chinese catastrophe that still escapes Western textbooks, the Dungan Revolt is the catastrophe beside the catastrophe.
History
The Taiping Rebellion Was Not a Side Story
Western narratives of the nineteenth century still organise themselves around European wars, American expansion, and the slow rise of industrial capitalism.
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The Grand Canal Was China’s First Network State
Western accounts of Chinese power still reach first for walls, emperors, and armies. Those things mattered. They also miss something quieter and more durable.
History
The Macartney Mission and Qianlong’s Refusal
In 1793, Britain sent one of the most ambitious diplomatic missions in its history to China.
