Battle of jingxing

How the Qin forged a great power from the fragments of the Warring States

THE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY

WATCHING THE RECENT SPECTACLE OF THOSE latter-day emperors President Xi of China and India’s Narendra Modi hugging each other at the summit in Tianjin, my mind cast back to an earlier image of a pan-A

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862

THE TURNING POINTS OF 1812

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w