Archives for June 2019

World War II in China

Today's installment concludes The Republic of China,our selection from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard published in 1969.If you have

By far the most skillful player in this game, and at the same time the man who had the support of the foreign governments and of the financiers of

The years that followed until 1927 were those of the complete collapse of the political power of the Peking government -- years of entire

At length they found a more friendly band, and learned much touching the Spaniards, who, they were told, were universally hated by the tribes of that

Difficulties grew to such an extent in 1917 that a dictatorship was set up and soon after came an interlude, the recall of the Manchus and the

The governors and generals who wanted to make themselves independent sabotaged every decree of the central government.Continuing The Republic of

Newspapers, novels, scientific treatises, translations, appeared in the vernacular, and could thus be understood by anyone who could read and

This series has nine easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Background to the Revolution.IntroductionFor 36 years China was

Today's installment concludes Augustine's Missionary Work In England,with a short selection from History of the English People by John R. Green