Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For more information, see Two Chinas, Political status of Taiwan, One-China policy, 1992 Consensus and One country, two systems. "China" also refers to many historical states, empires and dynasties that controlled parts of what are now the PRC and the ROC. For leaders of ancient and imperial China, see List of Chinese monarchs.
Paramount leader; 1 Mao Zedong 毛泽东 (1893–1976) Beijing At-large: 27 September 1954 27 April 1959 I: Zhu De: Himself The first Chairman of the People's Republic of China. Also served as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. 2 Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇 (1898–1969) Beijing At-large: 27 April ...
Uyghyr separatists bombed three buses, killing 9 people, including 3 children, and injuring 28. Another bomb was found at the main railway station but was defused. The bombings were a response to the Ghulja incident in which the Chinese army killed several Uyghur protestors Long wins round robbery: 1998, November 15 Shanwei: 23
China: Emperor of Manchukuo (1934–1945) and Emperor of China (1908–1912) 1946: Crimes against humanity Chen Gongbo: Collaborationist China: President of the Republic of China (1944–1945) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Liang Hongzhi: Collaborationist China: President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China (1938 ...
Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, Its History and Culture. Facts on File, 1999. 662 pp. Price, Rohan B.E. Resistance in Colonial and Communist China (1950–1963) Anatomy of a Riot (Routledge, 2020). Rummel, Rudolph J. China's bloody century: Genocide and mass murder since 1900 (Routledge, 2017). Salisbury, Harrison E.
In the fall of 1949, the ROC government retreated to Taiwan and surrounding islands as a result of the takeover of the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party and founding of the People's Republic of China. Since 1949, the Republic of China, now commonly known as "Taiwan", has only controlled Taiwan and
The Central People's Government was the central government of the People's Republic of China between October 1, 1949 and September 20, 1954. The government was formed in accordance with the Common Program and the Government Organic Law promulgated by the 1st National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
The PLA lost over 20,000 men due to weapons and equipment that were outdated, poorly made, and in short supply (a side effect of the disruption caused by the Cultural Revolution), maps that were decades old, the continued use of human-wave tactics from the Korean War, and the fact that the army had no system of ranks. Even worse was the fact ...