Five Myths About the Partition of British India – and What Really Happened
By Navtej K Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin
This August marks 75 years since the partition of the Indian subcontinent. British withdrawal from the region prompted...
China’s Population is about to Shrink for the First Time since the Great Famine...
By Dr. Xiujian Peng
The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.
China accounts for more than one sixth of the world’s population.
Yet after four...
Nixon-Mao Meeting: Four Lessons From 50 Years Of US-China Relations
It was “the week that changed the world”. On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset...
Chinese New Year: Your Guide to Everything from Importance of the Colour Red to...
February 1 marks the start of the Chinese new year 2022, the year of the tiger, and celebrations will end two weeks later with the...
How China’s ‘Leftover Women’ Are Using Their Financial Power to Fight the Stigma of...
By Dr. Chih Ling-Liu and Robert Kozinets
In China, if you are female, educated and unmarried by the age of 27, people might use a...
US 9/11 Blamed on Iraq; Pin China Next?
By Mario Ferdinand Pasion
More dramatic than any movie imagined, today is the 20th anniversary of the "9/11" twin towers collapse. The numbers and emotions...
What Ancient Chinese Roofs Can Tell Us About Climate Change
By Florian Urban
To reconstruct a picture of past climates, scientists often examine trapped bubbles in ice cores or the width of rings inside old...
‘To get rich is glorious’: how Deng Xiaoping set China on a path to...
By Tony Walker
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have...
Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case
By Dr Dan Steinbock
Recently, the Trump and Biden administrations have initiated a genocide case against China. Like during the Cold War, some European leaders...
Biden will place Asia back at the centre of foreign policy – but will...
By Professor Nick Bisley
The election of Joe Biden represents not only a repudiation of Donald Trump and his divisiveness, but an embrace of centrism and...
