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The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: Seventy Years of China’s Occupation of Tibet
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong
China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)
Ancient China and the Peasant Emperor
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.
A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
Sobaek Mountain
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.
A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
Right-Wing Politics in India
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong
Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Hong Kong in Protest
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall
Modern China and Its Institutions
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children
Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade