The first ever opera about Margaret Thatcher’s time in office is coming to the stage. Titled Mrs T, the work will be “an ...

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 Richard Nixons meeting with Chinas leader Mao Zedong in February 1972 then represented one of the biggest media spectacles in ...

President Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 was “the week that changed the world,” according to Ambassador Nicholas Platt, who accompanied the President on the historic delegation, at an event ...

Held before a standing-room-only crowd, the talk followed a showing of the new documentary Assignment: China—"The Week That Changed The World" and also featured former Asia Society President Nicholas ...

John Adams, a major musical figure of the last forty years, made this event of contemporary history the subject of his first opera. Nixon in China tackles the political thaw instigated by ping ...