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History
At a glance: a war of nine months, fought principally on land in Korea and along the Liaodong peninsula and at sea in the Yellow Sea, between a Qing China that had not fought a major external war for two generations and a Meiji Japan that had spent two decades building a conscript army on the French model and a navy on the British model.
History
Smoke drifts across the rooftops of the imperial capital.
Places
There is a scene from the early twelfth-century Chinese capital of Bianliang, what is now Kaifeng, that the painters of the time recorded with the same care they gave the imperial throne.
History
The war began with a shipment of opium and ended with a treaty.
People
In the autumn of 1908, two people died in the Forbidden City within twenty-two hours of each other.
History
In the spring of 1405, a fleet of more than two hundred ships left the Yangtze River with twenty-eight thousand men aboard.
History
The empire that Genghis Khan had built by 1206 was still small.
History
On the morning of Sunday, 4 May 1919, about three thousand students from thirteen Beijing colleges and schools gathered in front of Tiananmen, the great south gate of the Forbidden City, in the kind of late-spring light that falls on the low tiled roofs of the Outer City before the heat of the day.
Culture
On a winter afternoon in 1913, in a small courtyard theatre on the south side of Qianmen, just outside the old walls of Beijing, a young woman in her early twenties was sitting at a brass mirror in the wings, applying Peking opera lianpu makeup in red and white and black.
History
On a damp morning in late 1820, on the south bank of the Pearl River just outside the walls of Canton, a man of fifty-one in a dark blue silk robe stepped out of a long, low warehouse and onto a stone quay.
Science & Tech
On a Monday morning in late September 2026, in a fourth-floor lab on the Tsinghua University campus in north-west Beijing, a young Chinese postgraduate in a white coat pipetted a clear solution into a small vial.
History
Half past five, on the evening of 30 June 1876. An English locomotive called the Celestial Empire gave a long shriek and slid out of a wooden platform down the line from where the Shanghai station was still being built.
