The building of the Summer Palace's Foreign Affairs Office combines Chinese and Western architectural features. The building ...

A total of 100 buildings constructed in the past 100 years, ranging from temples and museums to schools and industrial ruins, ...

There are few city silhouettes that can outdo Shanghai’s, particularly from the city’s world-famous Bund. The mile-long promenade on the Zhongshan Road lines the bank of the Huangpu River, cutting ...

By STEVE PFARRER For the Gazette Stephen Platt, who teaches 19th and 20th century Chinese history at the University of ...

Victoria was the railway queen: the first British monarch to board a train when she departed Slough for Paddington in 1842.

The neighborhood has over 800 early-20th-century buildings, many of them pristinely restored in pastel hues. The second Connecticut city on the list, New Haven has serious charm, thanks to its ...

The story of Hilton and Shanghai began in 1988—a year when a new chapter was written in the city’s unfolding saga. At the bustling crossroads of Huashan Road, the iconic Hilton Shanghai hotel was ...

In the bustling heart of modern Shanghai, where skyscrapers tower over the Suzhou ... Birth of a movement In the early 20th century, China's working class struggled under the triple burden of ...

Nondenominational supplementary schools for instruction in Hebrew and religion served the community and grew throughout the early twentieth century. The two broad ... In 1916, Mount Sinai Hospital ...

In a flourish that almost a century later conjures Trump’s fondness for autocrats, Byrd spoke glowingly of Italy’s fascist ruler, Benito Mussolini, then five years into a reign that would end ...