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the treaty of shimonseki
It was between the Empire of Japan and Qing China, ending the First Sino-Japanese War. The peace conference took place from 20 March to 17 April 1895. This treaty followed and superseded the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty of 1871. wiki -
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Japanese occupation of Taipei
Taiwan became a dependency of Japan in 1895 when the Qing dynasty of China ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The short-lived Republic of Formosa resistance movement was suppressed by Japanese troops and quickly defeated in the Capitulation of Tainan, ending organized resistance to Japanese occupation and inaugurated five decades of Japanese rule.
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the tapani uprising
Multiple Japanese police stations were stormed by Aboriginal and Han Chinese fighters. The rebels declared a Tai Republic, the existence of which only lasted 12 days before the revolt was suppressed. Japanese colonial historiography attempted to portray the incident as a large scale instance of banditry led by criminal elements.
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the establishment of The Taiwanese Cultural Association
Although Japan has ruled Taiwan for more than 20 years, they still implements a policy of fooling the people. Taiwan’s highest school's students are mainly Japanese. Taiwan’s wealthy families send their disciples. After studying in Japan, these students studying in Japan have a broad perspective. They do not regard Taiwan’s colonial rule as China’s historical changes in dynasties, but treat it as the world’s colonial history.
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the wushe incident
It was the last major uprising against colonial Japanese forces in Japanese Taiwan. In response to oppression by Japanese authorities, the Seediq Indigenous group in Musha attacked the village, killing over 130 Japanese. In response, the Japanese led a relentless counter-attack, killing over 600 Seediq in retaliation. The handling of the incident by the Japanese authorities was strongly criticised, leading to many changes in Aboriginal policy.
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Japanization
It is the process by which Japanese culture dominates, assimilates, or influences other cultures.
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The Cairo declaration
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Japan surrender in Taipei
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February 28 incident
It was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government, which killed thousands of civilians beginning on February 28, 1947. The number of Taiwanese deaths from the incident and massacre was estimated to be between 5,000 and 28,000.
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Nationalist retreat to Taiwan
Nationalists lost the battle with Communist and therefore they retreated to Taiwan. They originally had the plan to gain back the mainland. But this goal became unrealistic along as time passed, Nationalist start focusing the governance within Taiwan. -
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Founding of PRC
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Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance
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Land Reform
It was a campaign during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War and the early PRC. The campaign involved mass murder of landlords by tenants and land redistribution to the peasantry. The estimated amount of casualties of the movement ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions. In terms of the communist party's evaluation Zhou Enlai estimated 830,000 had been killed and Mao Zedong estimated as many as 2 to 3 million were killed.
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The hundred flower campaign
It was a period encouraged citizens to express openly their opinions of the communist regime. Following the failure of the campaign, Mao Zedong conducted an ideological crack down on those who criticized the regime, which continued through 1959. Observers differ as to whether Mao was genuinely surprised by the extent and seriousness of the criticism, or whether the campaign was in fact a premeditated effort to identify, persecute, and silence critics of the regime. -
Anti rightist Campiagn
It was a political campaign to purge alleged "Rightists" within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and abroad. The campaign was launched by Chairman Mao Zedong, but Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen also played an important role. The Anti-Rightist Campaign significantly damaged democracy in China and turned the country into a de facto one-party state.
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People's Commune
It was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the PRC when they were replaced by townships. Communes, the largest collective units, were divided in turn into production brigades and production teams. The communes had governmental, political, and economic functions during the Cultural Revolution. The people's commune was commonly known for the collective activities within them, including labor and meal preparation, which allowed for workers to share local welfare. -
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The great leap forward
The Great Leap Forward was a social production movement that took place in the PRC from 1958 to 1960. It was a socialist construction movement that tried to make use of the abundant local labor force and the enthusiasm of the masses, ignore market laws in industry and agriculture, and blindly increase production. The movement was ultimately unsustainable and this divorced movement was gradually stopped by the authorities.
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Lushan Conference
The Conference saw the political purge of the Defence Minister, Marshal Peng Dehuai, whose criticism of some aspects of the Great Leap Forward was seen as an attack on the political line of Chairman Mao. The Conference also marked the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 that disagreement over the direction of policy spilled into open conflict between party leaders. wiki -
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The great famine
It was a period in the history of PRC characterized by widespread famine. The Great Chinese Famine is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions.
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Socialist Education Movement
It was a movement launched by Mao in 1963 in the People's Republic of China. Mao sought to remove reactionary elements within the bureaucracy of the PRC, saying that "governance is also a process of socialist education." Chinese researchers have pointed out the movement resulted in at least 77,560 deaths, with 5,327,350 people being persecuted. In the movement, the relationship between Mao and Liu Shaoqi, the 2nd President of China and Mao's potential successor, deteriorated. -
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Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution, or the Cultural Revolution for short, is a political movement in the history of the People's Republic of China. It took place in mainland China from May 16, 1966 to October 6, 1976. Because it lasted as long as ten years, it was also called "decade of turmoil" or "decade of catastrophe."
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Death of Mao Zedong