It is a fallacy to think that the Chinese emperors made decisions arbitrarily. Since the time of the Northern Song, the emperors felt compelled to…
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The Fragile Strength of the Qing Dynasty – Part 1
Why did the Ching dynasty survive for so long, till 1912, when it was in its death throes caused by the Taiping Revolution [1850 to…
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Trilogy of French and Russian war
This trilogy is a wonderful reassessment of the war between the French and Russian empires. Using extensive French, Russian, German and Polish diaries, memoirs and…
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