How Texaco Helped Franco Win the Spanish Civil War
The tale of Trokild Rieber, the "barrel-chested, square-jawed" Norwegian-American oil-baron who not only supplied the Spanish...
Chinese Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Gary Jones shines a light on a small, but nonetheless fascinating corner of the Spanish Civil War in reporting on the contribution of the...
China's Curious Cult of the Mango
A really interesting look at how a 1966 gift from the Pakistani foreign minister to Mao sparked a brief obsession with the mango. Stories...
'China's war with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival' by Rana Mitter
Revisiting an earlier book review here, but I thought it interesting how the pre-Jack Ma SCMP offered a surprisingly critical take on the...
Posters about "Japanese dwarves"
More specifically this is a website dedicated to collecting KMT propaganda from the Second Sino-Japanese War, and it is fantastic....
The Meaning of 'Totalitarian'
"Anne Applebaum talks to us like we're stupid. And it's awesome." So says The Atlantic. And they're not wrong....
The Cultural Revolution at 50: A Q&A with Four Specialists
From the Los Angeles Review of Books: "This year marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning, and the 40th anniversary of the end, of...
Dishy Warlord Dreamboat Top 10
"Hey woah, they're actually not bad" according to my Year 12s. Read it and weep Year 12 guys. http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2013/12/t...
China, Wellington Koo and Versailles 1919
Paul French, author of Betrayal in Paris and Midnight in Peking, explains how China’s betrayal by Western powers at Versailles still...
China in the Early 1920s
Everyone should know Laszlo Montgomery. His China History Podcast is indispensable to any IB History student and you should make...
