A HUNDRED years ago today, a young man stood surrounded by friends on a railway platform in Shanghai. Song Jiaoren was heading to Beijing to form a new government. He was to lead the largest electoral ...

Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), was the leader of the Beiyang Army. In 1895, he was recommended by Li Hongzhang to train the New Army in Tianjin. As commander-in-chief, he quickly raised his own troops. In ...

Compared with the high-profile national Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre last month, the date January 18 passed uneventfully. Chinese media appeared to have forgotten that one hundred years ago, ...

Singapore is likely to hold a presidential election soon to elect the country’s head of state. The incumbent, Halimah Yacob, has decided not to seek a second six-year term. At the time of writing, two ...

Compared with the high-profile national Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre last month, the date January 18 passed uneventfully. Chinese media appeared to have forgotten that one hundred years ago, ...

Henry Pu-Yi, former child emperor of China, is shown wearing the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet of the Manchukuan Navy, in 1936, at unknown location in China. Pu-Yi became emperor of China in 1908.

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