The subtitle of At the Edge of Empire is a glimmer of its great heart: A Family’s Reckoning with China. The book — which comes out today in the US — follows the author Edward Wong ...

The term "empire" is a concept commonly used in contemporary China, albeit with somewhat vague connotations. Having an emperor doesn't automatically qualify a state as an "empire." Historical ...

It took the Japanese empire some 150 days to wrest control ... including swathes of mainland China (see map 3). The loss of Taiwan and other territory was a blow to the Qing dynasty, which was ...

It became a Japanese colony in 1895, after the Qing empire lost the first Sino-Japanese war. Then in 1945, after Japan lost World War Two, China took the island but now a nationalist government ...