Missions and Misunderstandings
A tale of two translators, caught between civilisations.
A tale of two translators, caught between civilisations.
Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?
Realising the world was changing around them, the Qing government began sending students abroad.
Believing language would unify their struggling nation, Chinese officials began a project to create a national language and define what it meant to speak Chinese.
Chinese history is dominated by a nationalist interpretation that owes much to British ideas of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Though horse racing was a symbol of British colonialism, it became a surprisingly inclusive pastime in China’s major International Settlement.
Are China and Hong Kong one country, one history?
The Chinese government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic reveals much about its memory of the humiliations of the 19th century.
How important was China’s senior diplomat to his nation’s rise to global power, or is it too early to say?
An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.