September 9, 1976

Pontecorvo and Saadi Yacef's now-classic film debuted 60 years ago this August. Here's everything you need to know about it.

In the early 20th century, Chessboard Street in Shanghai was the heart of the Chinese publishing industry. This is where our story begins: when Li Difan, a salesman for a small Shanghai bookseller, fo...

August 30, 1363

What can we learn from democratically elected Yuan Shikai, who appointed himself emperor?

The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies fosters interdisciplinary research and public engagement on the Middle East and North Africa, promoting academic events, language training, and educational pro...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

The real cause of America's dysfunctional politics lies in the mismatch between the United States’ political institutions and its political realities.

October 9, 1813

Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression…

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

October 6, 23 CE

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

This week on Sinica, I chat with Peking University’s Professor Wang Dong (王栋), an international relations scholar at the School of International Studies at Peking University, where he also serves as D...

Jerome A. Cohen pioneered the study of Chinese law in the United States. He met with Zhou Enlai, trained Chinese officials and helped American firms set up in China. Now, even at 90, he presses Beijin...

Jerome A. Cohen, professor emeritus of law at New York University and founding director of the law school’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, who passed away on September 22, 2025, introduced the study of Chin...

ECHL hockey will return to Trenton, New Jersey in the 2026-27 season with the relocation of the Utah Grizzlies' Membership.