The current trade and diplomatic crisis with China shows us the speed at which gains made over years can unravel in a matter of months.
Historians of “Chinese science” until recently have spent much of their time researching issues in pre-modern natural studies and trying to explain why modern science, technology, and medicine arri
Consistent with its growing economic, political and military might, China wants due recognition by and engagement with the global community of nations.
From Gough Whitlam to Tony Abbott, Australia has pursued a pragmatic, national interest-based China policy.
In October 1917, the collection of the Asiatic Library in Beijing, founded by G. E. Morrison, arrived in Tokyo.
Many visitors to Xi’an go to the Tomb of Empress Wu 武則天 (624-705), where their attention may be brought to a tall stele, the Wu zi bei 無字碑 (Stele without an inscription).
Australian has never encountered an Asian country as powerful as China is today, and we have no idea how to deal with it.
After Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966, vast numbers of students, workers, peasants and other ordinary people divided into hostile groups that violently fought against each other for mo