China Under the Empress Dowager
Throughout the years of Chinese self-questioning in the second half of the nineteenth century, Tz’u Hsi, the Empress Dowager, held the stage, untouched by the new thought. By Richard Harris.
Richard Harris
China in the Twentieth Century: Nationalism and Revolution
Richard Harris describes the various forces of change at play in China's tumultuous first half century.
Indo-China and the French
How the South-East Asian peninsula had been shaped before French colonial rule.