Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China

Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century ChinaPaul A. Cohen is Professor of History Emeritus......

Ohnesorge: A Hurstian View on Chinese Econonomic Development

John K.M. Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin Law School, has posted Development is Not a Dinner Party: A Hurstian Perspective......

Zhu on China Suzerainty over Tibet and Mongolia

Yuan Yi Zhu, Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics at Pembroke College, Oxford, has published Suzerainty, Semi-Sovereignty,......

Du on filiality and falsity in Qing China

Last year, Yue Du (Cornell University) published "Policies and Counterstrategies: State-Sponsored Filiality and......

Ho on Administrative Law in Tang Dynasty China

 [We have the following announcement from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  DRE]Greater China Legal History......

Boxer uprising

It is a nationalist uprising in China. The so-called Boxer uprising was initiated by the secret organization known as the......

Vintage China

Greatest of China's statesmen - Li Hung Chang in the court of his yamen, Tientsin, China, 1901   Natives......

Arrow War (1856-1860)

The Opium Wars was the two trade wars fought in 1839-1842 and 1856 – 1860 (also known as Arrow War) between China and the......

War of Kaifeng (1232 – 1233)

Renewed invasion of north China saw the Mongols Ogedei and Tolui (son of Genghis Khan) defeat the Jin at Yuxian, and then......

Opium War, First (1839-1842)

The term ‘Opium Wars’ refers to the period of Anglo-Chinese conflict between 1839 and 1860. This period of unrest was punctuated......

Anyang

AnyangAnyang is the modern town where the last capital (Yin) of the Shang dynasty (c. 1766–c. 1122 b.c.e.) of China was......

Ban Biao

Ban BiaoThe Ban family was famous during the first century of the Common Era under the Eastern Han dynasty in China for......

Buddhism in China

Buddhism in ChinaThe practice of Buddhism spread in the centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha through the actions......

Chang’an

Chang'an towerChang’an (Ch’ang-an), literally “Perpetual Peace,” was the largest city in the world of its time, boasting......

Choson

The kingdoms of ancient Choson developed in Korea from the Bronze Age when tribal groups started to dominate the land between......

Confucian Classics

Confucian ClassicsSince the beginning of the historic period the Chinese have held the traditions handed down from antiquity......