The 13-floor building was completed in 1929, a time when large parts of Shanghai were occupied by colonial forces and the ...

In 1839, Chinese authorities used force to confiscate and destroy millions of pounds of opium from British merchants. The ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...

Millions of Chinese were addicted to opium in those days ... Volume one runs through 1937, when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out. Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan ...

Famous for his martial arts prowess and charitable spirit, Wong Fei-hung has been widely respected as a legendary folk hero ...

When HSBC ,opened its doors in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865, Chinese trade flows were just bubbling up again after the ...

China will keep working to bring home more of its cultural artifacts lost overseas, according to the National Cultural ...

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The Great Wall, a collection of fortifications, was constructed in the third century BC in response to the frequent invasions ...

The survey warned that high prices and dwindling opium stocks in the country may tempt Afghan farmers to ignore the Taliban’s ...

Ghosh makes visible the moral double standards prevalent in social discourses, especially regarding trading and profiting ...