Impact of the Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict that pitted the Russian Empire against the Japanese Empire between February 10, 1904 to September 5, 1905. The...
Mongol Warriors and the Composite Bow
Genghis Khan began the Mongol invasions but it was the powerful composite bow which carried their civilization out of the steppe.
The Mongol tribes of...
A brief history of Ancient China
China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Its history is almost 5,000 years old. The Chinese civilization began in a major...
The Art of War: Sun Tzu Created History
Sun Tzu (about 543B.C.–470B.C.) was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is the author of the Art of War. He lived...
Calligraphy as an Art Form
The written Chinese language is based on an ancient art. The characters have evolved over centuries, from pictographs on oracle bones to todays's computer...
White Russians in Shanghai
After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 thousands of ant-Communist Russians were stateless and homeless. They all flocked to Shanghai, China and a new life.
There...
Pu Yi – The Last Emperor of China
While on her deathbed the Empress Dowager Cixi chose the infant boy Pu Yi to be China's next emperor. In December 1908 he ascended...
The 1930s Depression in China
The economic depression of the 1930s had a terrible impact on the western world - but did it also have the same impact in...
The Panthay Rebellion
The Muslim Hui people of Yunnan suffered from years of abuse and then were subject to a massacre. They launched a revolt which created...
Causes of the First Sino-Japanese War
Between August 1894 and April 1895, China and Japan were engaged in a war over the future of the Korean peninsula in a conflict...