China

Husband and wife Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang), pictured at their wedding in 1928. The pair “dominated Chinese politics for two decades [and] were among the most prominent non-westerners on the planet throughout the 1930s and 1940s”, says Rana Mitter. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Six lives that shaped China

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An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

General ancient history

A spell-binding history of witches

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The Terracotta Warriors podcast

The Terracotta Warriors

Replica chariot. (© Mr. Ziyu Qiu)

In pictures: The Terracotta Warriors

An overview of the Terracotta Warriors in the Terracotta Museum of Xian, China. (Image by Getty)

Uncovering China’s Terracotta Army

Chinese terracotta soldiers

General ancient history

Terracotta Army: Secrets from the grave

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

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Second World War

China in World War Two

Eleanor of Aquitaine.

History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine

Mao Zedong applauds a parade of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. These young militants followed Mao’s call in early August 1966 to defend the party from a ‘white terror’. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Reign of the red terror

Yangguan Museum and a statue of Zhang Qian. (Getty Images)

Global encounters of the ancient kind

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China, Hebei, Simatai, Thin section of the Great Wall near Beijing disappearing into the distant hills.

General ancient history

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Great Wall of China

A relief at the World Heritage site of Xanadu in Inner Mongolia, China. (Photo by Dreamstime)

My favourite place: Xanadu, China

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BME8P5 Shandian River, Bashang Grassland, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China

My favourite place: Xanadu, China

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