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September 5, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
After reading David Chaffetz’s newest book, you’d think that the horse–not oil–has been humanity’s most important strategic commodity. As David writes…
August 29, 2024
God's Ashes
Climate change. The refugee crisis. The rise of social media. These big social questions—and others—inspired journalist Marga Ortigas in the creation…
August 22, 2024
Alexander at the End of the World
In 330 BC, Alexander the Great conquers the city of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire. His troops later burn it to the ground, …
August 14, 2024
Shanghailanders
Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau: 2024), the debut novel from Juli Min, starts at the end: Leo, a wealthy Shanghai businessman, sees his wife and daugh…
August 8, 2024
Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves
Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the s…
August 1, 2024
Spice
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. T…
July 25, 2024
The Poisoner of Bengal
It’s the 1930s. Amarendra Chandra Pandey, the youngest son of an Indian prince, is about to board a train when a man bumps into him. Amarendra feels a…
July 18, 2024
A Danger Shared
Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from C…
July 11, 2024
The Story of Southeast Asia
Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political st…
July 3, 2024
Chop Fry Watch Learn
In 1971, the New York Times called the Taiwanese-Chinese chef, Fu Pei-Mei, the “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.” But, as Michelle T. King notes …
June 27, 2024
The Transpacific Flow
In 2009, Fudan University launched China’s first MFA program in creative writing, spurring a wave of such programs in Chinese universities. Many of th…
June 20, 2024
On the Shadow Tracks
In 2016, journalist Clare Hammond embarked on a project to study the railways of Myanmar–a transportation network that sprawls the country, rarely use…
June 13, 2024
Bankrolling Empire
Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India…
June 6, 2024
The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 Bc-89 Ad
For two centuries, the Xiongnu people–a vast nomadic empire that covered modern-day Siberia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang—were one of the Han Dy…
May 30, 2024
Judgement at Tokyo
In December 1948, a panel of 12 judges sentenced 23 Japanese officials for war crimes. Seven, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were senten…
May 23, 2024
Bernhard Sindberg
In December 1937, Bernhard Sindberg arrives at a cement factory outside of Nanjing. He’s one of just two foreigners, and he gets there just weeks befo…
May 16, 2024
Slip, Stitch and Stumble
India’s stock markets are booming. One calculation from Bloomberg puts India as the world’s fourth-largest equity market, overtaking Hong Kong, as dom…
May 9, 2024
Advantage China
China’s rise to global prominence is a pretty good contender for the most important world development in the past 30 years. But now the question is ho…
May 2, 2024
Not Your China Doll
In 2022, the U.S. Mint released the first batch of its American Women Quarters series, celebrating the achievements of U.S. women throughout its histo…
April 25, 2024
The Great Flap of 1942
In April 1942, at least half a million people fled the city of Madras, now known as Chennai. The reason? The British, after weeks of growing unease ab…