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Nazi Shanghai: 8 Nazi Landmarks of Old Shanghai

Where you’d find the Third Reich.

by JFK Miller, 30 September 2020

Nazi Shanghai: Tai Li, ‘Himmler of China’ Who Copied the Gestapo

The Generalissimo’s chief spook who modeled his secret service department on the Gestapo.

by Matthew Neckelmann, 30 September 2020

Nazi Shanghai: John Rabe, ‘Schindler of China’ Who Saved 250,000

Nazi party loyalist who helped save 250,000 Chinese from the Japanese during the Rape of Nanking.

by JFK Miller, 30 September 2020

Nazi Shanghai: ‘Stalin’s James Bond’ Who Fooled the Führer

Sophisticated, debonair, deadly – Russian double agent Richard Sorge.

by JFK Miller, 30 September 2020

Explainer: The Fishy Chinese Origin of Ketchup

The word ketchup has Fujian roots, but does it hold any other resemblance to its ancestry?

by Joshua Cawthorpe, 28 August 2020

Strangers on the Praia: Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony.

by Paul French, 04 August 2020

Explainer: Why is Chinese New Year Called 'Spring Festival'?

Why doesn't everyone call it that, and why is there no Winter Festival or Summer Festival?

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 21 January 2020

Everest, Qomolangma or Sagarmatha? Naming the World’s Highest Mountain

A brief look at different monikers for Mount Everest.

by Tristin Zhang, 16 December 2019

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