Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin in the Chinese Civil War
Between September 12, 1948, and January 31, 1949 CE—a span of precisely one hundred and forty-two breathless days—the geopolitical destiny of the world’s most…
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The 1938 Huayuankou Dyke Breach
In the sweltering, overcast dawn of June 9, 1938 CE, on the south bank of the raging Yellow River near the tranquil village of…
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The Xi’an Incident and the United Front Against Japan
At five o’clock in the freezing, pitch-black morning of December 12, 1936 CE, a ferocious crackle of rifle fire and the thunder of exploding…
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The Long March and the Ascent of Mao at Zunyi
On the evening of January 15, 1935 CE, in the remote mountain city of Zunyi in the rugged highlands of northern Guizhou, a cold…
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The Northern Expedition and the 1927 Shanghai Massacre
At four o’clock in the morning on April 12, 1927 CE—in the damp, mist-choked pre-dawn darkness of Shanghai—the sudden, piercing wail of a naval…
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Lu Xun, New Youth and the Assault on Confucian Absolutism
In the fifth lunar month of 1918 CE—the seventh year of the Republic of China—inside a modest editorial office on Sanyi Lane in the…
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Yuan Shikai’s Eighty-Three Days of Empire and the National Protection War
On the twelfth day of December in the fourth year of the Republic of China—1915 CE—inside the cavernous, silk-draped hall of the Renzhouluan (Hall…
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The Sichuan Railway Protection Movement of 1911
In the seventh lunar month of the third year of the Xuantong era—September 1911 CE—the wide, flagstone-paved avenues of Chengdu, the provincial capital of…
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The Importance of Taiwan
A small island of 23 million people off the coast of China, smaller than Switzerland and with fewer inhabitants than Texas, hosts the only…
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