On June 16, 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy was inaugurated. At Whampoa and elsewhere, Sun Yat-sen was uniquely able to keep the two strands of the revolutionary movement — the Communist left and the Republican right — together.
In the late-17th century, the Qing empire and Zunghar Khanate both sought to expand their territory. They would clash in Mongolia, with dominion over Central Asia at stake.
Nearly 400 years ago, the Forbidden City burned.
The line that separated Nationalist China from the People’s Republic was not a bright one. In 1949, when the Communists took over, many fled Shanghai — but many more remained.
More than anyone except Mao himself, Jiang Qing represented the violence and extremism of the Cultural Revolution.
The irony of the anti-American boycott of 1905 is that many Chinese held the U.S. in higher regard than Europe. But the U.S. had betrayed its own values back home, leading to China's reciprocal response.
On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed a law that for the first time singled out a specific nation — China — and denied its citizens entry into the United States.
The “Yunnan Outrage” — in which a scouting party led by British diplomat Augustus Margary was ambushed and killed while exploring China’s “persistent frontier” —...
It is June 4 that the world remembers as the culmination of the 1989 Beijing Spring, but April 26 may have been the point at which the die was cast.