A team of 19 researchers from Australia and China have unlocked the genetic key to developing higher-yielding varieties of peanut or groundnut, a major food and oilseed crop in India.

A Qing Dynasty viceroy named Li Hongzhang was purportedly Waldorf Astoria New York’s first Chinese guest back in 1896, so it’s fitting that the hotel’s location (in the heart of upscale ...

In the spring of 1895, China’s Viceroy Li Hongzhang, freshly shot in the face, was sitting before Japan’s Count Ito Hirobumi in the Port city of Shimonoskei, trying to delay the concessions ...

Li Hongzhang and Otto von Bismarck meet in Germany, 1896. Courtesy of Huang Wei In his personal life, too, Li cultivated a number of “Western” habits,” such as smoking cigars and drinking milk, red ...

On this day in 1896, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Li Hongzhang served chop suey to his American guests. While some credit Li’s cooks with creating the dish that night, other origin ...

Many prominent political figures such as Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang advised the import of Western ideas into Chinese education – “Chinese Learning as Substance, Western Learning for ...

China’s spears and sailing ships were no match for steam-powered gunboats, wrote Li Hongzhang, a scholar-official who helped set up the country’s first modern arsenal and shipyard in Shanghai ...

Hirobumi Ito was hosting a feast for Li Hongzhang and his entourage of 100 men, savouring the succulent and delicious fugu (puffer fish). Of course, this never actually happened.

Li Qiang, the former Communist Party secretary of Shanghai, was elevated last fall to be the No. 2 official in the Chinese Communist Party, probably a product of his perceived loyalty to Mr. Xi.

This position has been consistent among the five generations of PRC leadership. Any Chinese leader shifting away from the position of unifying Taiwan by whatever means would be engulfed by ...