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Amped-up drills and new U.S. tanks have added bite to President Lai Ching-te’s Taiwan-is-a-country lecture tour.
China’s Xixia Imperial Tombs was inscribed as a World Heritage Site at the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage ...
China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing ...
YAN'AN, Shaanxi province -- The former site of the first science and engineering higher education institution founded by the ...
To fully explore this untold history, The Chinese Photobook includes seven chapters, beginning with the pre-1949 era, the Manchuria and the Sino-Japanese War, the establishment of new China, state ...
China has had its ups and downs, says historian and PBS series host Michael Wood. And now that the world’s oldest nation is on its way back up, it’s time to take another look at its history in ...
Did you know the Great Wall of China is over 21,000 kilometers long? It’s about three times longer than we thought. This shows the wall’s history is complex, not just one structure. It’s a vast system ...
China is unique among the world's most populous nations in that it considers itself ethnically near-homogenous, Martin Jacques writes in an essay at the BBC News Magazine. "[M]ore than nine out of ...
Beijing has a history of warning Washington about the safety of its Treasury holdings. This time it may have reasons to stay ...
July 2011: China's State Council publishes a "Three Gorges Follow-Up Work Plan" promising to spend 1.24 trillion yuan on fixing the social and environmental problems caused by the giant dam.