Westad and Chen deliver a lively account of Chinese history from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 through the first decades of economic reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

If the 19th century was defined by European power, and the 20th century by the rise of the ... are the region’s historical powers, China and India, which were the world’s largest economies ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Li Luogong is an important explorer of 20th-century Chinese art, whose ventures in oil, calligraphy and seals ushered tradition into modernity. Behind his ...

While Japan won’t walk away from its alliance with the United States, the linchpin of the Asian country’s diplomacy and ...