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Revolution of 1911, the formation of Kung Ming Tang
During the Qing dynasty, the government started to collapes. The emperor was very weak and the imperial europeans are dividing and conquering China as their territory. At this time, a lot of Chinese are very angry about their government. Sun Yatsung, one of the leader back then, created Kung Ming Tang. -
The May 4th Movement
The May 4th Movement is a protest, and boycott from the students in Beijing. The main cause of it is the Treaty of Versailles. It was also due to the weak responds from the government. -
the beginning of the Chinese Civil War
After the communist party was created by Mao in China, conflicts formed between the nationalists and the communists. Since they don’t agree to each other, a war started between the two parties. -
Chinese Japanese War
In 1937, the japanese declared war to China. China was still having its civil war and it was being very weak. In less then a month, the Japanese took over most of the North East China. -
The Nanjing Massacre
The Nanjing Massacre is a part of the Japan-Chinese war. After Japan conquered the north east china, they attacked Nan Jing. They started a massacre there and around 300 thousands of people got killed. -
The Second Part of Chinese Civil War
After the invasion of Japan, the conflicts between the is still going on. None of the leaders (Mao and Chaing) were comprimising to the others. Finally, the communists won the war and the nationalist retreated to Taiwan. -
The formation of Chinese Communism Party
After the victory of the communism, the People Republic of China was formed. Mao was the leader of the communism. In the following years, there are a lot of things happened, including Great Leap Forward and the Cultural revolution. -
The Formation of Simplify Chinese
When the Republic of China is still in power, the idea of making simplify characters had formed. But people didn’t really notice it until 1958 when the government enforce the rule to the citizens. From that time on, people learn simplify Chinese in the school. -
Great Leap Forward
Mao started the three years Great Leap Forward several years after he stabled the government. The main goal of Great Leap Forward is to create a many Metal and Steel as possible. But it failed and a lot of people died because of starvation. -
Cultural Revolution
After the failure of Great Leap Forward, Mao started the cultural revolution. This is the biggest revolution ever happen in the last decades. People quit study and started to march in China to experience the feelings of revolution like what Mao did. They destroy a lot of literatures, killed a lot of scholars, and a lot of public place like the music room, library and schools. -
Economic Reforms and Openness
When Deng Xiaoping was in charge, he realized that the Chinese economy wasn’t as good as he thought. He think the main problem is that people the idea of communsm that made people not able to do their own businness. He started the economic reforms and openness. Since then, China’s economic growth started to rise sharply. -
China under Deng Xiao Ping
Deng Xiaoping is one of the most famous Chinese Chairman in the history. He changed the whole idea of the nationalist and he created a new style of government called the Chiense special Nationlism. -
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
During the economic reform lead by Deng, China changed from the Mao Communism to a socialist country with Chinese Speicals. There are more people who thought that Democracy is the right choice. Groups of college students started to protest in the Tian’anmen Square. -
The story of Fa Lun Gong
Fa Lun Gong is a philosophy Li Hongzhi created in 1992. A lot of people started to practise this non-official religion. Later, the Jiang Zeming, the former president, decided to treat this as a anti-government activity. They later killed more than 50 thousands people because of this. -
China Under Hu Jin Tao
Hu Jin Tao is the new Chairman of China. He started in 2002 and he’s famous because of his diplomatic skills. Through the last 10 years, China had a very close relationship between most of the countries especial the United States, European Union, and Japan. -
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