The rise of modern China is arguably the greatest and most consequential story of our time. And as Frank Dikotter highlights in his new book, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, it is a tale of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In the fall of 2017, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV aired a series promoting China's achievements in science and technology. One episode profiled a Chinese scientist who claimed to have invented a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jonathan Kaufman has produced a fascinating history of modern China by focusing on two Jewish families who built business empires there that have lasted nearly 200 ...

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Chatwin is the author of “Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China” and “The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future.” Above Beijing’s imperial center ...

As China marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 May Fourth demonstrations, it is certainly a challenge to write anything new about this unanimously celebrated event. May Fourth has been studied and ...

When I close my eyes and think of China, this is what I see: Swirling dragons and sweeping calligraphy. Elegant, refined porcelain. Extravagant architecture from dynasties past. Fast forward to the ...

Conquest and Consolidation. The late Ming -- The Manchu conquest -- Kangxi's consolidation -- Yongzheng's authority -- Chinese society and the reign of Qianlong -- China and the eighteenth-century ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rana Mitter, professor of the modern China's history and politics at the University of Oxford, about President Xi. Now we want to turn our attention to the central ...

NEW YORK — Jonathan D. Spence, a British-born historian, longtime Yale University professor and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner who attracted a wide following with his 1990 bestseller, “The Search ...