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Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.
The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.
The Taiwan Strait Conflict
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.
Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy
people holding signs protesting China's occupation of Tibet
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
The Arrow Incident on October 8 1856
The Second Opium War
Liu Bang
Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.
“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)
Buildings along a waterfront in China
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.
The View from the Countryside
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: China’s Occupation of Tibet
Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong
China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America
"Terracotta Warriors" in China
Ancient China and the Peasant Emperor
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong
Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Over one million people participated in anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong in June 2019.
Hong Kong in Protest
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall
Modern China and Its Institutions
The mushroom cloud from a 1954 high-yield thermonuclear weapon test.
Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China
The Greening of China?
Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang
North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom
Chinese Banknotes.
The United States, China, and the Money Question
The Terra Cotta Warriors: Xi’an’s most famous attraction
A Postcard from Xi’an: Balancing Past and Future
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.
"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation