Sun Yatsen and the Xinhai Revolution
In which Kaiser Kuo, David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne discuss Dr. Sun's role in the 1911 Xinhai revolution. The conversation soon turns to...
The history behind China's warlord era
In this brief Quora post Kaiser Kuo (Baidu, Sinica Podcast and Tang Dynasty) begins the response to the simple question "who were the...
11 Slogans That Changed China
Interesting article from the BBC that covers exactly what the title says. Brownie points to whoever coined 'The Three Represents' for...
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter – review from the Gu
The CCP's recent (Sept. 3rd 2015) 'celebration' of the 7oth anniversary of the defeat of Japan in WWII came in for much (predictable?...
Mainland refugees fleeing famine are rejected by British Hong Kong; a photo collection.
A short collection of photographs presented by the increasingly-interesting Hong Kong Free Press https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/13/hk...
China Under Mao, a Q & A with Andrew G. Walder
In his latest book, Stanford Sociologist Andrew Wilder argues Mao "lurched from crisis to crisis, inspired less by a new vision of...
The Chinese Civil War -the Bureaucratic Fight in Washington
An excellent introduction into how domestic concerns impacted the US response to the Chinese Civil War. http://adst.org/2013/12/the-civil...
How Deng Xiaoping Helped Create a Corrupt China
Bao Tong, former Policy Secretary for Zhao Ziyang and one-time Director of the Office of Political Reform of the CCP Central Committee,...
How Did the One-Child Policy Change China?: An Interview with Mei Fong
Award-winning author Barbara Demick interviews Mei Fong in The New Yorker about China’s One Child Policy. http://www.newyorker.com/news/...
The song of Song
The shot that killed Song Jaioren was not heard around the world, but it changed Chinese history http://www.economist.com/news/christmas/...
