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In the lead-up to U.S. President Trump’s meeting later this week with China’s Xi Jinping, Orville Schell, ChinaFile’s publisher, wrote an essay in The Wall Street Journal on the history of China’s episodic embrace of democratic principles and why in the long run he feels they are likely to persist despite an authoritarian retrenchment under Xi’s leadership. Anders Corr, a

If you've ever felt a sniffle coming on in the summer months -- particularly when you're on vacation -- then air conditioning could be to blame.

If youve suffered the famous ‘Ayia Napa flu,’ youre not alone.

God’s Chinese Son: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Spence, Jonathan at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0006384412 - ISBN 13:  9780006384410 - HarperCollins - 1997 - Softcover

Ian Hacking, RIP. Our academic professional societies do an absolutely abysmal job of informing their members of their colleagues’ deaths. Death notices and obituaries typically appear in these organizations’ bulletins months or even years after a scholar’s death. Members of the Organization of American Historians must pay extra to subscribe to a publication that lists deaths. You might think that historians, of all people, would do more to remember their parting.

Annual Lectures Each year, the Associates host a lecture in the Historical Library. Past speakers have included Nobel Laureates, writers, professors and Surgeons General who have lectured on a wide variety of topics relating to medicine.

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Chairman Mao is one of history's worst despots, having murdered millions of Chinese during his communist reign. So why is he still revered by many?

What happened earlier this month at the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo has been commented upon ad nauseam; some really good pieces have resulted [...]

In the mid-1950s, when I was a graduate student of Chinese history, the Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) was invariably condemned as a reactionary hate figure; Mao Zedong was admired. In the textbooks of that time, leading American scholars characterized Cixi as cruel, imperious, and opposed to the Westernizing reforms championed by progressive officials, all of whom