"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for the first time, from children to adults, from the general tourists ... throughout ancient China as well as its military history and strategies, ...

China today is 4 times more populous than the United States. At the turn of the century, it could conceivably have roughly the same number of people as America.

Getty Images Sir Robert Hart was the inspector-general of China's Imperial Maritime ... a legacy which has shaped the writing of history in China to this day. Professor Rana Mitter presents ...