Jon Breitenbucher

Three-Year difficult period (三年自然灾害): famine and paying debts to U.S.S.R after the Sino-Soviet rift

3-anti- (corruption, waste, bureaucracy) 5-anti- (bribery, tax-evasion, fraud, do shoddy work and inferior material, steal economic secrets) campaigns; Korean War;

People’s Republic of China formally established by CCP; the defeated GMD nationalist troops fled to Taiwan

Japan occupied north, central and south coastal Chinese areas; the rape of Nanking; GMD government moved to Chongqing

Japanese bombed and occupied Shanghai; 2nd United Front formed between GMD and CCP

Long March of the Red Army began, led by Mao Zedong, elected chairman of Central Committee of CCP

Shanghai Massacre; the GMD crack down on Shanghai communists and expel CCP and Soviets

Beginning of Northern Expedition against warlords (北伐); during 1924-27, first united front of CCP and GMD

Founding of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shanghai

Versailles Treaty; students’ protest against the treaty; May Fourth Movement broke out from Peking and spread to major Chinese cities; this new cultural movement was characterized by its a […]

October 10: outbreak in Wuhan of Chinese Revolution; national day for Republic of China

Boxer Uprising, backed by the Empress Dowager who declared war against “all foreigners in the world;” second expedition by the Allied forces (of 8 nations: Britain, The United States, Russia, Japan, France, Ger […]

Lu Xun (1881-1936)
Lu Xun (pseud. of Zhou Shuren, 1881-1936) was born on September 25, 1881 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He was taught Chinese classics by a private tutor. In 1898 he entered South China Naval […]

Reform Movement led by people such as Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong, and later Sun Zhongshan

Reform Movement led by people such as Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong, and later Sun Zhongshan

Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan as Heavenly King against the Qing government;

Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan as Heavenly King against the Qing government;

Opium War ended with Great Britain winning the war and China’s humiliating defeat; the Treaty of Nanjing was signed to open up 5 cities–Canton, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai–to residency by British subje […]