History
Origins of China
The idea of China as a single continuous civilisation is both deeply compelling and fundamentally misleading if taken too literally, because what we now call China is not a natural unit that existed from the beginning…
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History
Sino-Annam History
For more than two thousand years, what we now call Vietnam lived in China’s shadow and at times inside its borders, and that long entanglement is what the old phrase Sino-Annam history is trying to capture.
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The Rebellion That Broke Tang
In December 755 a frontier commander named An Lushan turned his army south from Fanyang, near modern Beijing, and marched on the Tang empire’s eastern capital at Luoyang. Within weeks he held the city.
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Luoyang, the Capital That Kept Returning
In the year 547 a minor official named Yang Xuanzhi rode into Luoyang on government business and barely recognised it.
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Why the ‘Yellow Peril’ Took Hold
On 26 September 1895 Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote from his hunting lodge at Rominten to his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II.
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Secret War in Shanghai
In July 1940 a young woman calling herself Princess Sumaire stepped off a boat from India and took a suite at the Cathay Hotel on the Bund.
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The Academy That Counted
On 1 November 1949, in Beijing, the new government established the Chinese Academy of Sciences and appointed Guo Moruo its president. He was a poet, a playwright, and a historian of ancient scripts.
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The University That Walked
On the night of 11 November 1937, about two hundred people from National Zhejiang University went down to the Jianggan docks in Hangzhou and got on boats.
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The Only Reform Left Standing
On the last day of 1898, in a house the neighbourhood still thought of as a dead princess’s, a university that was not yet a university opened its doors.
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The Garden the Indemnity Bought
On the morning of 30 March 1911, a sixteen-year-old boy from Shaanxi sat in a new hall on the north-western edge of Beijing and was told where his breakfast had come from. The hall had no famous name yet.
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The May Fourth Movement and Modern China
If you stand on the campus of Peking University in early May, when the willow trees around Weiming Lake are heavy and green and students gather in noisy discussion groups that seem to never end, you may notice a modest stone marker that does not commemorate an emperor or a victorious general.
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Chinese Civil War in the 1800s
The mid nineteenth century nearly broke the Qing empire. Between 1850 and 1878 China was consumed by overlapping civil wars whose combined death toll ranks among the highest in human history.
