An American writer’s memoir of World War II China remains a timely diagnosis of the pathologies of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the “loss” of China.
Trump's re-election disappointed many in the U.S. and abroad. To help them process, Jeremiah and David talk with literary translator and Pennsylvania voter Brendan O’Kane about Zhang Dai, the Ming-Qing transition, and living through an age of upheaval.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom joins Barbarians at the Gate to discuss the legacy of the Hong Kong protests, Xi Jinping’s patriotic education law, and how Beijing’s control over historical narratives is reshaping academic engagement with China.
How China transitioned from imperial rule to Chinese Socialism and all about the key characters whose opposing visions for China's future created so much chaos along the way.
A supernatural crisis pits an anxious autocrat against his own functionaries when a hunt for soul-stealing sorcerers turns into a political witch-hunt among 18th-century China’s “deep state.”
When calling for boycotts of Chinese companies, the US is going to need the help of the EU and also should remember the history of economic nationalism in China.
Donald Trump’s off-handed and asinine comment about China’s history inspires our resident historian to consider the claim: “5,000 years of continuous what?”
The story of the French prints is one worth exploring, and the article, almost in spite of itself, raises a number of interesting issues, but it’s going to take a better grasp of Qing Dynasty history to do this subject justice.