In Manhattans Chinatown, two statues represent historic Chinese figures separated by centuries. The article explores Trump's efforts to combat the opioid crisis by ending the de minimis exemption from ...

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine.

Closed to outsiders and plagued by addiction, a Vietnam village tuned its radios to a California preacher. It has bloomed ...

In the 1970s, a working-class British couple brought the vase to 'Going for a Song', where it was evaluated as a fake by an expert.

The vase was first brought on the BBC's Going for a Song in the 1970s, where a museum curator told the owners it was a ...

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until in 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty of Nanking. The treaty opened five Chinese ports to British traders, ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.

Experts at the time said the 1740 Qing dynasty vase had been looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace in Peking during the Second Opium War occupied by Emperor Xianfeng.

A British couple took it on the series (originally presented by Max Robertson) on which ‘connoisseurs and customers explore the world of antiques’ and were left disappointed when the vase was dubbed a ...