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History, research (a work in progress)

By novellac
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    Qing Dynasty

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    Opium War

  • Treaty of Nanjing – Hong Kong ceded to Britain

  • New Territories ceded to Britain

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    Boxer Rebellion

  • Death of Empress Dowager

    Death of Empress Dowager

    Wikipedia article on Empress Dowager Cixi's Death

  • Revolution overthrows Qing dynasty

  • Sun Yat-sen relinquishes Presidency to Yuan Shikai

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    Republic of China (Mainland & Taiwan incl.)

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    China divides into several semi-independent states

    Each with its own laws, tax systems, foreign policy, etc.

  • Japanese Twenty-One Demands for control over China

  • May Fourth Movement

  • Chinese Communist Party (CCP) founded

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    New Economic Policy (NEP)

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    GPU as acronym for Soviet political police

    GPU is the acronym for the Soviet political police during this time.

  • CCP and GMD cooperate in First United Front

  • Guomindang (GMD) (Kuomintang) reorganised

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    OGPU as acronym for Soviet political police

    GPU used as the acronym for Soviet political police.
  • Sun Yat-Sen dies

    Sun Yat-Sen dies

    Wikipedia article on Sun Yat-sen

  • Northern Expedition to unify China

  • CCP and GMD split after Shanghai massacre

    Wikipedia article on Shanghai Massacre

  • GMD National Government in Nanjing

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    China under Chiang Kai-shek

    Chiang Kaishek defeats warlords and unites China for around a decade.
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    CCP establishes rural bases in Jiangxi province

  • People's Republic of China founded