The Chinese republic first had a flag of 5 horizontal stripes, then in 1928 the ‘Blue Sky, White Sun, and the Vast Red Earth’. In 1949 came the 5-star Red Flag ...

A band of pioneering Western photographers sought to capture China’s landscapes, cities and people, captivating audiences back home and sparking a homegrown photography movement in the process.

In the 19th Century rural Chinese villages and great cities of Lisa See’s “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” as in the modern imagination of Kingston’s immigrant parents, the birth of a ...