In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

“What you are seeing is the pincer movement closing in on the surviving top leadership,” Ajai Sahni, a counter-terrorism ...

I enjoy sharing books with others, which was the genesis of this annual list. Six previous reviews have included monographs ...

The Naxalite insurgency, one of the world’s longest running, has claimed the lives of thousands of security personnel, rebels and civilians across central, southern and eastern India over more than ...

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...

The author with an Egyptian journalist in front of the Chongqing Hotpot Restaurant, a bomb shelter converted into a restaurant in Chongqing, China.

Weaving together social, economic and political history, this is a thoroughly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating book, writes Allan Massie ...

According to Drage’s biography, Cohen was born in London in 1889 to a family that had just arrived from Poland, but most analysts agree that he was actually born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in a ...

The Battle at Lake Changjin has been described as a propaganda war film that forewent historical accuracy for heroic ...

The series does show citizens protesting about injustice and petitioning higher authorities for redress. But the loudest ...