Jon Breitenbucher

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Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast is the author of Railing, Reviling, and Invective in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1588-1617: The Anti-Aesthetics of Theater and Print (Ashgate, 2012) as well as Renaissance […]

Deng died; Hong Kong handed over to Chinese administration

Mikhail Gorbachev visited China; Tiananmen Pro-Democracy protest of one million people demanding Premier Li Peng resign and martial law be withdrawn; and June Fourth massacre

1976Como llama cuando invertir en la opciones binarias This is an extremely well written article. Jogue e o vishva mehta é simples. […]

1971During the ten-year Cultural Revolution, a.k.a. The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution (伟大的无产阶级文化大革命), education system for th […]

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