Rebecca Kuang discusses her best-selling historical fantasy novel: Set in the 1830s in England, the book weaves the story of a Chinese-born protagonist who sets out to prevent a war with China over ...

The revolutionaries who brought down the Qing Dynasty envisioned a Chinese republic that would be welcomed into the family of nations. Just months after the revolution broke out, the last Qing emperor ...

A block east of Tiananmen Square, in a classroom last July, Chinese school children were singing the nursery rhyme “Old McDonald Had a Farm” in Latin: “Donatus est agricola, Eia, Eia, Oh!” The ...

Yuan Shikai was one of the most significant men in the last decades of the Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic. He served as China’s first president, but his career ended ignominiously.

China’s chip industry has been juiced by funding from the government and jinxed by U.S. export curbs on advanced equipment. But the century of chip rivalry has just started. These are ten Chinese ...

Yuanmingyuan had already been looted by foreign armies earlier in the month. But European powers wanted to further punish the Qing emperor, and so decided, in mid-October 1860, to set fire to the ...

The 15 Chinese companies listed in this guide were all among the top 25 global highest-selling EV brands in 2022. It was a breakout year for BYD, which was the top global company by sales. BYD sold ...

The New Fourth Army Incident, in which Communist troops were routed at the hands of the Nationalist Army, has been a source of contention ever since it happened. But what is clear is that it set the ...