Disputes over Negeri Sembilan’s next royal ruler recall how succession in China often fused dynastic legitimacy with ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

Niko wang, a man in his 30s with thick black glasses, has his own marketing business. This affords him the flexibility to go to museums during the week—an essential ability for culture vultures in ...

Taiwan’s connection to the Chinese mainland spans well over a millennium. Early Chinese records, such as the Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (230 AD), refer to Taiwan, then known as Yizhou, as an island ...

China was hermetically closed for decades after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Even today, access to primary sources, not least party archives, remains haphazard at best. The party ...