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It’s one of the biggest questions in economic history: How did a richer, more advanced China fall behind Europe? Why was Europe the home of the Industrial Revolution, and not China? And what does that journey tell us about politics and culture? In Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture ...  Show more

Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia (Cornell UP, 2026) by Dr. Kristina Jonutytė is an ethnography of contemporary urban Buddhism in Buryatia, a republic within the Russian Federation. Kristina Jonutytė shows ...  Show more

In his latest article, "A Few Thousand Years of Chinese Foreign Policy (In a Nutshell)," Joe unravels China's diplomatic legacy from its cultural origins to the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, debunking popular misconceptions and delivering a rich historical context to under ...  Show more

This is a conversation with Mia Wong, a writer and researcher with Cool Zone Media whose essay "<a href="https://lausan.hk/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/" rel="norefer ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.In 1850 a Chinese Christian convert, Hong Xiuquan, proclaimed himself leader of a new dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He and his followers marched against the ruling Qing dynasty, gathering huge support as they went ...  Show more

Today, China is a global superpower. But less than two hundred years ago, the nation was in a state of decline. After what became known as the 'century of humiliation' at the hands of Western imperialist powers, its very survival was in question. A movement arose to fight off for ...  Show more