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Ferdinand Magellan with an antique map behind him
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
"Terracotta Warriors" in China
Ancient China and the Peasant Emperor
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
The Great Wall of China
Walls and Barriers to the World
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)
Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong
180-degree view of Tiananmen Square in 2004 (Photo by Saad Akhtar)
Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman
After Midnight
Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam
Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Book Cover.
Hanoi Central
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) Book Cover
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover
Clashing Shades of Red
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.
Between the East and the West
Cover of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad.
Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.
The Man Who Re-Invented China
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.
A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
A sign illustrating Level 5 Water Restrictions in Goulburn, New South Wales, 2006, during the worst of Australia's decade-long drought.
Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
A marooned boat on what used to be the shore of the shrinking Aral Sea. After their 1991 independence, there was a guarded optimism surrounding the five countries of Central Asia. Today, despite the region's strategic and petroleum importance, the future of these new states appears beached by struggling economies, corruption, authoritarian politics, and the global drug trade.
Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order
North Korea's prime minister Kim Il-sung and China's premier Zhou Enlai tour Beijing in 1958.
China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem
Mourning banners hung at the south gate of Beijing university in the aftermath of the 1989 June 4th incident in Beijing
Survivor: the Chinese Communist Party
President George W. Bush shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao following his visit and meeting Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, with the Chinese leader at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leaders compound in Beijing.
What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations
India and Pakistan highlighted on a map.
“Open Skies” for India and Pakistan?