In 19th-century India, rising from poverty to national stature was no small feat, but Jamshedji Jijabhai did just that. As ...

Jamshedji, a visionary businessman and philanthropist, founded JJ Hospital and JJ School of Art, donating generously to ...

The exhibits at the Opium War Museum in Humen include "opium paste" that fueled mass addiction in China in the early 19th century. [Photo by Satarupa Bhattacharjya/China Daily] The Qing government ...

In Nanjing, a team of university architects negotiate the complex legacy of the late Qing dynasty reformer Li Hongzhang in a ...

Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The Sick Man of Europe." ...

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

China seeks to undo the ‘Century of Humiliation’ in which it ceded great territory to Moscow.

Poppy seed is so commonplace in Bengali cuisine – and held in such high regard – that I almost took a packet as a gift for my ...

AF: Opium was a major colonial commodity, exported from India to China. China was the main market for this commodity. Towards the end of the 19th Century, particularly during the 1880s, when the ...

The self-described Long Beach bar collective has plenty of unique offerings, from specialty cocktails to small plates.