What does China want? History shows the answer

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by ...
NPR

'Sparks' author Ian Johnson on Chinese 'challenging the party's monopoly on history'

One of the first things Xi Jinping did after being named general secretary of China's ruling Communist Party was tour an exhibition at the National Museum on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square. It ...
Wired

The Online Fiction Boom Reimagining China’s History

If you could travel back in time, what year would you choose? What would you change about history? For a surprising number of Chinese people, their answer turns out to be the same: Use what they know ...
The Diplomat

What the History of China-Russia Relations May Tell Us About Their Future

As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged. In China’s case, history is ...
Time

Cultural Exchange Between the U.S. and China Before the Social Media Era

President Richard Nixon inspects Chinese troops upon his departure from Beijing, China in 1972. Prime Minister Zhou Enlai walks to Nixon's right. Democrats and Republicans united in April 2024 to pass ...
KMUW

Understanding modern China through reporting on a hidden family history

While in China to cover President Trump's visit to meet with leader Xi Jinping, host of NPR and WBUR's Here & Now Scott Tong spent time learning about a difficult chapter in his family's history.