China: As History Is My Witness

At best they have been taken for granted and sometimes they have endured far worse at the hands of China's governments a... Read more

Chinese history can be read as a series of peasant rebellions. One in the 19th Century, led by a man who thought he was ... Read more

The behaviour and competence of China's bureaucrats have defined the state for 2,000 years. But in the 11th Century came... Read more

Early in the 3rd Century, China's mighty Han empire collapsed. From the wreckage emerged three kingdoms and competing wa... Read more

There are two Chinese leaders whose final resting place is thronged by tourists - Mao Zedong and Qin Shi Huang, the empe... Read more

On one bank of the Huangpu river in Shanghai stands a forest of steel and glass skyscrapers, but on the other - colonial... Read more

China's two favourite poets were born 1,300 years ago, at the beginning of the 8th Century. The language has changed so ... Read more

Many Chinese look to Confucius for guidance. But Confucius looked to the Duke of Zhou. He handed power to his nephew 3,0... Read more

China has a love-hate relationship with what is foreign. Traditionally all people beyond the Great Wall were barbarians ... Read more

Free speech has long had a high price in China. Here Sima Qian ponders his privates - and posterity - in a tale that sti... Read more