His beautiful and disarming images, on display through Sept. 11 at the East-West Center Art Gallery in “China Through the Lens of John Thomson,” show that he achieved that goal and more.

During the late 1800s, China was ruled by the weak imperial Qing dynasty.Their weakness translated into opportunity for European interests eager to add China to their own list of imperial possessions ...

These are Communist China’s counterparts to forts dispatching army scouts. Warships, coast-guard cutters, fishing vessels, aircraft—these are conveyances that cannot loiter everywhere, forever.

Eric Jay Dolin’s When America First Met China narrates the story of how the United States took advantage of China and Chinese individuals, named or unnamed, in the past. Today, Chinese people are no ...

Archaeologists in Shandong found three 1,800-year-old tombs, a family burial site, filled with dozens of ancient artifacts, photos show. Photo from the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese ...