Zhou Enlai, Mao’s long-serving premier, was neither pure loyalist nor hidden liberal. He was a pragmatist who kept Mao’s China afloat—balancing ideology with survival through famine, revolution, and Cold War isolation.
Zizhu Wang comments on Henry Kissinger’s relationship with China, reflecting in particular on his 2013 visit to Shanghai.
Professor Shane McCausland shares his expert opinion on the mystery of an ancient seal from the collection of the German-British businessman and banker Ferdinand Nassau Schiller.