The Boxer Rebellion was the fourth and largest war, Imperial China fought against Western powers in the nineteenth century.

Consider Supporting HoH: The once-mighty Imperial China had faced enormous hardships by the 1860s: the Taiping rebellion, two ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

Productivity is another essential part of the reform effort. And here, deeper market-oriented structural reforms are critical ...

Problems and perspectives -- China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE -- States, wars, and farms: environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE -- ...