The conflicting war narratives from Communist China, pro-unification Nationalists in Taiwan, and those seeking Taiwan’s independence have been present since the end of World War II. From left: Chinese ...

WUXIANG, China — An elderly Chinese war veteran’s shin still bears the mark of a bullet wound he suffered when fighting the Japanese as a teenager, a year before the end of World War II. Eighty years ...

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help. By Gary J. Bass Gary J. Bass, the William P.