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Timeline of Chinese history. This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its dynasties. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties of China and years in China.
1912: Last emperor of China Puyi forced to abdicate, Yuan Shikai became president. 1915: Twenty-One Demands. 1916: Yuan Shikai dies. 1917: Manchu Restoration to restore monarchy in China by General Zhang Xun. 1919: Treaty of Versailles is established. 1919: May Fourth Movement.
Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, the Xia and the Shang can refer to political entities that existed concurrently, just as the early Zhou existed at the same time as the Shang. [20] This bears similarities to how China, both contemporaneously and later, has been divided into states that were not one region, legally or culturally.
Timeline: Seven decades of Communist China 1949 - Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China in Beijing 1950 - China supports North Korea in the Korean War ... At least 100,000 Chinese ...
In this article, "China" refers to the modern territories controlled by the People's Republic of China (which controls Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) and the Republic of China (which controls Taiwan area). For more information, see Two Chinas, Political status of Taiwan, One-China policy, 1992 Consensus and One country, two systems.
Mao's China and After: A history of the People's Republic (Simon and Schuster, 1999). Meisner, Maurice. Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual Portrait (Polity, 2006). Perkins, Dorothy. 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 ...
The Cultural Revolution, formally called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a social-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, its stated goal was to enforce communism in the country by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from ...
China is holding the most important meeting in its political calendar, the five-yearly Communist Party congress, where President Xi Jinping is expected to gain an unprecedented third term as the ...