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The Communist Party of China turns 100 this month, founded in Shanghai in July 1921.
by Ned Kelly, 23 July 2022
On July 1, 1997, China resumed its control of Hong Kong after 156 years of British rule.
by Adrienne Hoe, 01 July 2022
Praying in the Great Mosque of Xi'an and sparring with a Brawl on the Bund referee: a look back on the 1985 visit of The Greatest to the Middle Kingdom
by Ned Kelly, 20 May 2022
The act effectively ended Chinese immigration to the US for 60 years.
by Ned Kelly, 29 April 2022
January 1939: Seto Gin is busted smuggling several dozen tins of opium from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
by Ned Kelly, 15 March 2022
The ad men follow on from the mad men.
by Ned Kelly, 04 January 2022
Statistics released in 2010 show at least 273,400 were killed by the earthquake in Gansu, with Haiyuan losing 73,604 people, nearly half of the county’s entire population.
by Jonathan Zhong, 16 December 2021
An inside look at the Japanese takeover of Shanghai's International Settlement, which began on December 8, 1941.
by Mark Felton, 08 December 2021
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