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.

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 ...

The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. Two wars took place, both fought essentially over the ...

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 ...

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.

This reflects the exhaustion of the Qing’s capacity for self-renewal, and the social stagnation of that era would eventually cost the dynasty dearly in the two Opium Wars. Sixth Tone: I was also ...

In what would be known as the Opium War, it trashed the Chinese junks that tried to hold it off and Britain defeated the Qing Dynasty from which it demanded massive concessions, including the ...

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 vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert ended up selling for an astonishing £53million after being stored in an attic for 40 years.

made around 1740 for the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty in China, passed down through generations from a relative who had travelled abroad, reports the Mirror. During the Second Opium War, an ...

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 ...