Maga, he argues, isn't a push to restore America's global dominance, but rather a sign of an empire in retreat, now confronted by a resurgent China - its most significant economic, diplomatic and ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

Trump is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China. By Wang Wen ...

Against all odds, the Han Empire exhibited greater income inequality than its Roman counterpart. And not only that: the degree of economic extraction (that is, how much the state took from its ...

“In our analysis, this fate befell the Han Empire, which shortly after 2 C.E. (the year to which our inequality estimates for China relate) was disrupted by almost two decades of rebellion and civil ...