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the beginning of the republic that lead by Sun Yixian
The History of the Republic of China begins after the Qing dynasty in 1912, when the formation of the Republic of China as a constitutional republic put an end to 4,000 years of Imperial rule. The Qing dynasty, (also known as the Manchu dynasty), ruled from 1644–1912. The Republic had experienced many trials and tribulations after its founding with including being dominated by elements as disparate as warlord generals and foreign powers. In 1928, the Republic was nominally unified under the "Ku -
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British came to china
British Chinese (also known as Chinese British, Chinese Britons) (Chinese: trad. 英國華僑, simp. 英国华侨, Yīngguó Huáqiáo) are people of Chinese – particularly Han Chinese – ancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second or third largest group of overseas Chinese in Europe apart from the Chinese diaspora in France and the overseas Chinese community in Russia. The British Chinese community is thought to be the oldest Chinese community in Western Europe, with the first Chinese having -
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jiang jeishi takes control of the KMT
ChiaKai-shek was born in Xikou (Chikow, Hsikou), Zhejiang, to Chiang Shu-an, a salt merchant and the leading man in the village, and Wang Tsai-yu, Shu-an’s third wife (the first two having died). He was given the “milk name” of Jui-yuan (Auspicious Beginning); his mother called him Zhong-zheng (Chung-cheng, Balanced Justice). The honorific name Jieshi (Between Rocks) was later bestowed upon him; “Kai-shek” is an attempt to Romanize the Cantonese pronunciation of this name.
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Mao Zedong dies
Cold War 1976
Mao Zedong Dies
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Mao Zedong, who led the Chinese people through a long revolution and then ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949, dies. Along with V.I. Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Mao was one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War. Mao was born in China in 1893. During the 1910s, he joined the nationalist movement against the decadent and ineffective royal government of China and the -
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fall of qing
The ethnic-Manchu rulers of China's Qing Dynasty reigned over the Middle Kingdom from 1644 CE until the early 20th century. What brought about the collapse of this once-mighty empire, ushering in the modern era in China? The collapse of China's Qing Dynasty was a long process. Qing rule gradually collapsed during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, due to a complex interplay between internal and external factors. -
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-Japan take control of formosa
The Japanese invasion of Taiwan (Chinese: 乙未戰爭; Japanese: 乙未戦争) (May–October 1895) was a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the armed forces of the short-lived Republic of Formosa following the Qing Dynasty's cession of Taiwan to Japan in April 1895 at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese sought to take control of their new possession, while the Republican forces fought to resist Japanese occupation. The Japanese landed near Keelung on the northern coast of Taiwan on 29 May -
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-Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-imperialist uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1899 and 1901. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the "Boxers," and was motivated by proto-nationalist sentiments and opposition to foreign imperialism and associated Christian missionary activity. The Great Powers intervened and defeated the Chinese forces. The uprising took place aga -
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start of republic of china
The Republic of China (traditional Chinese: 中華民國; simplified Chinese: 中华民国; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó; Wade–Giles: Chung1-hua2 Min2-kuo2) governed the present-day territories of China, Mongolia and Taiwan at differing times between 1912 and 1949. As an era of Chinese history, the Republic of China's rule on mainland China was preceded by the last imperial dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty and its end was marked after the Nationalists lost the Chinese Civil War against the Communist Party of China -
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the communist take power and the nationalists escape to taiwan
The Chinese Communist Revolution or the 1949 Revolution was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power since its founding in 1921 and the second part of Chinese Civil War (1946–1949). In the official media, this period is known as the War of Liberation (simplified Chinese: 解放战争; traditional Chinese: 解放戰爭; pinyin: Jiěfàng Zhànzhēng). Contents [hide]
1 Historical background
2 The Civil War, 1946–1949
3 Casualties
4 Result
5 References
5.1 Citations
5.2 Source
6 See also
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start of one hundred flowers campaign
For other uses, see 100 Flowers (disambiguation).
History of the People's
Republic of China (PRC)
National emblem of the People's Republic of China
1949–1976
Mao Era
Revolution Korean War Zhen Fan
Three-anti/five-anti campaigns
Hundred Flowers Campaign
Anti-Rightist Movement
Great Leap Forward
(Great Chinese Famine)
Cultural Revolution
(Lin Biao Gang of Four Tiananmen Incident)
1976–1989
Restructuring
Economic reform Sino-Vietnamese War Beijing Spring Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign Tiananmen -
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wu chang uprising
The Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911 started the Xinhai Revolution, which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC). In 1900, the ruling Qing Dynasty created a modernized army called the "New Army". At the time, the city of Wuchang, on the Yangtze River in the province of Hubei, had the most modern military industry. It began manufacturing weapons and other military equipment for the New Army. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas extensively in -
Qing dynasty
The Qing Empire (1644–1912) was the last great dynastic empire to rule the region. Like most Chinese dynasties, the Qing Dynasty had powerful and long-lived rulers at the beginning of the dynastic era, a period of prosperity in the beginning and middle of their dynastic era, and natural disasters, rebellions, invasions and inept ruling courts at the end. The Beginning of the Qing Empire
Before the Qing Empire, the Ming Empire lasted about 270 years and then collapsed mainly from within as rival -
white lotus rebrllion
White Lotus (Pai-lien chiao) sectarianism appealed to Chinese, most notably to women and to the poor, who found solace in worship of the Eternal Mother who was to gather all her children at the millennium into one family. The doctrine of the White Lotus includes an alleged forecast to the advent of the Buddha.
The first signs of the White Lotus society came during the late 13th century. Mongol rule over China, known also by its dynastic name, the Yuan era, prompted sm -
opium war 1
Opium Wars Opium Wars, 1839–42 and 1856–60, two wars between China and Western countries. The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large quantity of opium confiscated from British merchants. Great Britain, which had been looking to end China's -
opium war 2
Following the First Opium War in the 1840s, the Western powers concluded a series of treaties with China in an effort to open its lucrative markets to Western trade. In the 1850s, the United States and the European powers grew increasingly dissatisfied with both the terms of their treaties with China and the Qing Government’s failure to adhere to them. The British forced the issue by attacking the Chinese port cities of Guangzhou and Tianjin in the Second Opium War. Under the most-favored-nation -
warlord era
The Warlord Era was a decade-long period when national authority in China disintegrated and the country broke apart into a jigsaw of regions, controlled by powerful local leaders and cliques. Warlordism was in large part a culmination of the internal divisions that had emerged in late Qing China. Warlordism began to unfold during the last years of Qing rule, as the dynasty’s authority quickly waned and local leaders moved to increase their own power. This devolution of political power continued -
the long march
The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the attacks by the Guomingdang. The Long March came about when the Chinese Communists had to flee a concerted Guomingdang attacked that had been ordered by Chiang Kai-shek. In the autumn of 1933, the Guomindang leader Chiang Kai-shek launched a huge attack against the Communists who were then based in the Jiangxi and Fujian provinces in south-east China. The Guomindang was advised by the German general, Hans von Seeckt. He advised Chi -
ww2
With the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Second Sino-Japanese War, which had been rumbling on since 1937, was transformed into a major theatre of World War II. By 1941, the Chinese position was precarious. The largest forces opposing the Japanese were the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek, but the foreign military aid they had been receiving in the 1930s had dried up because of the war in Europe. Chiang’s forces were badly trained, badly disciplined and badly equipped. Thei -
Great leap forward
The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Zedong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern, industrial society - in just five years. Between 1958 and 1960, millions of Chinese citizens were moved onto communes. Some were sent to farming cooperatives, while others worked in small manufacturing. All work was shared on the communes; from childcare to cooking, daily tasks were collectivized. -
the cultural revolution
The Cultural Revolution had a massive impact on China from 1965 to 1968. The Cultural Revolution is the name given to Mao’s attempt to reassert his beliefs in China. Mao had been less than a dynamic leader from the late 1950’s on, and feared others in the party might be taking on a leading role that weakened his power within the party and the country. This probably explains the Cultural Revolution – it was an attempt by Maoto re-impose his authority on the party and therefore the country. The m -
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population pressure
At the time the government declared that in 30 years’ time, when the pressure of population growth had eased, population policy might change. The need to ease population pressure meant that a significant decline in fertility had to be achieved. The one-child policy was a policy that required huge effort to implement, and whose benefits would not be evident for many years. Thirty years on, the Chinese government is confronted with another problem in redoubling its long-term efforts to raise the
