A collection of travel posters shared via JSTOR by Hong Kong Baptist University highlights Hong Kong’s unique place in the global imagination over the decades.

The leaders of the Mongol empire never abandoned their nomadic lifestyles, but they created organizational structures capable of ruling a huge part of the world.

In country that followed a time-keeping system with variable hours, the fixed-hour clock of the Europeans had only symbolic value.

Agarwood has long been prized for its olfactory splendor. Its essential oil is even known as liquid gold today.

In the era of Louis XV, it was fashionable to drench oneself in “animal scents.”

Fratricide among rival princes was legal and widely practiced until 1603, so confinement to the palace was actually an improvement.