While in China to cover President Trump's visit to meet with leader Xi Jinping, host of NPR and WBUR's Here & Now Scott Tong ...

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

The Heungshan Culture Forum 2026 was held at the Macao University of Science and Technology on May 18 under the theme "Modern ...

A flag celebrating the establishment of the Republic of China, with photos of President Yuan Shikai (left) and interim President Sun Yat-sen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Subscribe for ads-free reading ...

Yuanchong Wang specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese and East Asian history. He joined the Department of History at the University of Delaware in fall 2014 after he received his Ph.D. from ...

If you could travel back in time, what year would you choose? What would you change about history? For a surprising number of Chinese people, their answer turns out to be the same: Use what they know ...

Kang Youwei (1858–1927) has had a profound influence on modern-day China. He imagined a future society in which war had ended and nation-states had disappeared, to be replaced by a single socialist ...

The Chinese Communist Party has turned Lu Xun, a Mao-era hero who excoriated the establishment, into a bland, Disney-style character. Lu Xun, China’s best-known modern writer, has become a mascot in ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward ...