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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

That comforting cup of ‘cha’ you hold in your hand hides a bitter history of colonial theft, exploitation and ongoing injustice in South Asia’s tea plantations ...

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