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850,000 Gold Yuan Not Worth a Bag of Rice
( 07-09-06 ) A man in east China's Jiangxi province was "luckily" enough on Wednesday to discover from his home some 850,000 yuan old cash that was issued before the founding of New China of 1949.
Taiwan and the Republic of China ( 06-10-15 )
The policy of governments on the Chinese mainland toward Taiwan has been ambiguous starting from 1895, when Taiwan was ceded to Japan, to 1945, when it was returned to Chinese administration. The Qing court parted with Taiwan with little grief; the fledgling Republican government hardly challenged Taiwan's status, and the government did not address Taiwan when it challenged other "Unequal Treaties." Only in 1942 did the ROC government stake a claim to Taiwan. In the Cairo Conference ...
Consolidation under the Guomindang ( 06-10-09 )
The decade of 1928-37 was marked by consolidation and accomplishment by the Guomindang（国民党）. Diplomacy helped moderate some of the harsh aspects of foreign concessions and privileges in China. The government acted energetically to modernize the legal and penal systems, stabilize prices, amortize debts, reform the banking and currency systems, build railroads and highways, improve public health facilities, legislate against traffic in narcotics, and augment industrial and agricultural ...
Opposing the Warlords ( 06-10-09 )
The fading cause of republican revolution was rekindled by the May Fourth Movement. In 1917, Sun Yat-sen had become commander-in-chief of a rival military government in Guangzhou in collaboration with southern warlords. In October 1919, Sun reestablished the Guomindang（国民党） to counter the government in Beijing. The latter, under a succession of warlords, still maintained its facade of legitimacy and its relations with the West. By 1921, Sun had become president of the southern government. He ...
New-Democratic Revolution (1919-1949) ( 06-09-29 )
The ideological origin of many important events in modern Chinese history can be traced to the May 4th Movement of 1919. Its direct cause was the unequal treaties imposed on China after the First World War. Motivated by strong patriotism, students initiated the movement, and it further developed into a national protest movement involving people from all walks of life. It also marked the introduction into China of various new ideologies, among which the spread of Marxism-Leninism is worthy of ...
The Second Sino-Japanese War ( 06-08-11 )
Civil War ( 06-08-11 )
Long March ( 06-08-11 )
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) ( 06-08-11 )
Xi'an Incident ( 06-08-11 )
May Fourth Movement I ( 06-08-11 )
Revolution against the Manchus ( 06-08-11 )
The period of the warlords I ( 06-08-11 )
The period of the warlords II ( 06-08-11 )
War against Japanese aggression ( 06-08-11 )
Chiang Kai-shek and the northern expedition IV ( 06-08-11 )
Chiang Kai-shek and the northern expedition I ( 06-08-11 )
Chiang Kai-shek and the northern expedition II ( 06-08-11 )