Meet “Looty,” a dog stolen by the British in the looting of China’s Old Summer Palace and gifted to the queen. Her journey sparked a craze–and left behind a legacy mired in imperialism and racism.

Trans and queer people and their supporters suffer ‘systemic persecution’ as country pushes increasingly conservative values.

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s role in fighting against the Japanese Empire, brilliantly brought to life in two recent novels.

I wrote about how my wedding dress anxieties became less about the look itself, and more about what it had come to represent—my identity in a mixed-race marriage.

More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old recordings and learning to give it a new voice.

The Biden administration sent Phoeun You, a former child refugee, to Cambodia after more than four decades in the US.

One Christmas, 12-year-old Wang’s classmate died of cancer. It was the first time one of her friends had passed away, and she wasn’t sure how to feel. Wang had written a letter to Santa the year before, so she decided to sit down and write another.

Protesters are using the military's fear of women against it.

Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”

Women and girls in the ongoing protest movement are up against a deeply unequal society.

Just a short minibus ride from the MTR, the rich history of Hakka villages lies in ruins along the Starling Inlet.