Less than two decades after the First Opium War, Britain launched another brutal campaign against Qing China this time with even higher stakes. This video explores the political motives, economic ...

The First Opium War wasn’t just about drugs it was about trade, empire, and clashing worldviews. This video explores why Britain went to war with China in 1839, using opium as leverage to force open ...

Love for the motherland, or patriotism, is the third element in China’s World War II narrative, alongside hatred of Japanese ...

So when Lin Zexu and his men dumped 2.5 million pounds of British opium into the sea, she reacted like any all-powerful ...

China seeks to undo the ‘Century of Humiliation’ in which it ceded great territory to Moscow.

The exhibits at the Opium War Museum in Humen include "opium paste" that fueled mass addiction in China in the early 19th century. [Photo by Satarupa Bhattacharjya/China Daily] The Qing government ...

A survey of China’s periphery demonstrates the authoritarian’s need to isolate itself cognitively through the Great Firewall, ...

When Trump first slapped tariffs on steel and soybeans during his first term, he didn’t just ignite a trade war, he shattered the idea that America would forever defend free trade. Now, back in the ...

In Nanjing, a team of university architects negotiate the complex legacy of the late Qing dynasty reformer Li Hongzhang in a ...

David Lee remembers another Chinatown cabaret/restaurant: the Forbidden City. It was run by his father Jimmy from 1955 to ...

The world has a shared interest in helping Afghan farmers move on from poppy. But time and again, it has abandoned them and ...