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Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
The Arrow Incident on October 8 1856
The Second Opium War
Liu Bang
Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
Burial detail at Camp O'Donnell after the Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Ferdinand Magellan with an antique map behind him
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Bombing Hiroshima
group of protesters with linked arms at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
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: Seventy Years of China’s Occupation of Tibet
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
Hospital workers
Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003
Vietnamese Children
Voices of the Vietnam War
A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)
"Terracotta Warriors" in China
Ancient China and the Peasant Emperor
Sobaek Mountain
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
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
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
The mushroom cloud from a 1954 high-yield thermonuclear weapon test.
Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea