The China We Never Knew

A Great Globe Girdled and Enclosed

The Global Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Missions

Oct 29 • 

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September 2025

The Clock That Held a Secret

By disposition I am resistant to Great Enterprises.

Sep 29 • 

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August 2025

When the Executioner Calls

Considering the Negative Spaces of Terror's Designs

Aug 25 • 

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Roland Allen Between Two Encyclopedias

The Siege of the Modern Spirit in Peking

Aug 10 • 

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July 2025

"Such an Incongruous Collection of People It Was."

With Roland Allen, Behind the Barricades: Part 2

Jul 8 • 

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June 2025

The Siege of the Foreign Legations

With Roland Allen, Behind the Barricades: Part 1

Jun 19 • 

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The Enigma of Martyrdom

"We would not choose to die now, and in any horrible way...."

Jun 2 • 

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May 2025

Make the Qing Great Again!

Destroy the Foreign!

May 7 • 

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April 2025

In Spring the Plum Flowers Bloom

The Unsettling World of Farmer Wang

Apr 14 • 

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Of Golden Bells and Big Swords

The Long Fuse of the Boxer Uprising

Apr 7 • 

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March 2025

Darkness Falls in the Late Afternoon

Portents & Floods, Reforms & Reversals, & the Scramble for Concessions

Mar 18 • 

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1900 ... That Terrible Year!

Approaching the Boxer Uprising

Mar 4 • 

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