Ahead of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, he has answered the big question on his succession. He clearly stated that only the ...

Born in 1935 to a farming family, the 14th Dalai Lama was identified through visions as the reincarnation of his predecessor.

Lai Ching-te is ramping up his warnings about China’s threat to Taiwan. Critics say he is stoking divisions, and risking ...

The cover image of Notes to John, a photograph by Annie Leibovitz, captures Joan Didion seated in an office, gazing up ...

Chen Shilin is not as famous as those photographers who took the shots, but his influence remains, from the portrait of Mao hanging in Tian'anmen Square, to his image on 100-yuan bills.

And Mao Zedong, together with Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, led the military force to fight the superior Kuomintang forces and defeat them one by one. After the three major campaigns of Liaoshen, Huaihai and ...