The Hundred Days of Reform was during the late Qing dynasty in 1898; this was a notable but brief political and cultural movement in...

The Second Opium War, often referred to as the Arrow War or the Second Anglo-Chinese War, took place between 1856 and 1860. This conflict...

When British merchant ships unloaded their cargo of opium on Chinese shores, they weren't just trading in drugs – they were igniting a...

Empires have been the dominant form of large-scale political organisation from antiquity for at least two millennia, unlike the modern...