Short of labour, it was the Dutch who first encouraged mass migration from China to help build up their colonial workforce. European colonisation was harsh and lasted only a few decades.

Communist China — A Short History. The People’s Republic turns 75 well launched on a new Long March aimed at the defeat of the free democracies and the rise to global eminence of the heirs to Mao.

A Short History of Chinese Art. Description . This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

China’s Lin Jianjie debuts his genre-fluid ‘Brief History of a Family’ at the Sundance Film Festival quietly skewering modern Chinese middle classes.

A Brief History of China’s Global Warming Hoax, From 1863 to Right Now . It all began when Irish physicist John Tyndall proposed in a “false flag” operation that variations in atmospheric ...

Then China stepped in, providing cheap labor as a solution to the problem. By the late 1990s, more and more of the world’s squid was being processed in China, which was also catching more and ...

A Brief History of Silent Protests Activists in China are using blank sheets of paper to speak out against the country’s draconian zero-Covid policies ...

An important international conference in Rome on May 21 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in China. Here’s what you need to know.