The subtitle of At the Edge of Empire is a glimmer of its great heart: A Family’s Reckoning with China.The book — which comes out today in the US — follows the author Edward Wong, an ...

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China Roger D. Kaplan (Random House, 400 pages, $23.23) In his new book The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the ...

JUST 12 STATES recognise Taiwan’s government. Others all have relations with the Chinese government in Beijing, and so at least tacitly accept its argument that there is only one China, of which ...