On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937. Since the end of the subsequent Chinese Civil War, this victory ...

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human ...

A military parade in Beijing marking the end of World War II will draw leaders from around the world. It's an opportunity for ...

Hong Kong and Macau were once European colonies—Hong Kong under Britain and Macau under Portugal. Both were returned to China in the late 20th century under agreements that promised high degrees of ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Historian Meredith Oyen explains how disagreements over the history of the second world war and who fought the Japanese are ...

Thinking historically forces us to surface and better understand the assumptions – explicit and unspoken – that go into ...

Xinjiang often makes headlines over reports of human rights violations of its minority Muslim Uyghur community, while Beijing ...

To say that China’s surplus could be a good thing is to reject that this amounts to a “beggar-thy-neighbour” policy. A reason for doing so is that we know of historical examples where large export ...

With symbolic ties going back to the 1960s, China is now also Morocco’s third-largest investor. In Beijing, Moroccan foreign ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of North Korea and China agreed to deepen bilateral ties and resist ...