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Modern China

By Fiona Wang YINING
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    Taiping Rebellion

    • A massive rebellion or civil war in China that was waged from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
    • Nearly toppled the Qing Dynasty and resulted in the death of 20 million people The conflict began as an uprising and a rebellion but became ‘simply a descent into anarchy."
    • It is also viewed by many historians as a precursor to the Long March and the Cultural Revolution.
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    Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”).

  • Wuchang Uprising

    Wuchang Uprising
    The beginning of the Nationalism Revolution.
    The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang, Hubei, China on October 10, 1911, which was the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution that successfully overthrew China's last imperial dynasty

  • Puyi Abdication

    Puyi Abdication
    End of Qing Dynasty rule.

  • Shanghai Massacre

    Shanghai Massacre
    The Shanghai massacre of April 12, 1927, known commonly in China as the April 12 Purge or April 12 Incident, was the violent suppression of Communist Party of China organizations in Shanghai by the military forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang.
    Result: Beginning of the Chinese Civil War

  • Start of Long March

    Start of Long March
    The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army.
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    Nanjing Massacre

    Mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

  • Founding of the People's Republic of China

    Founding of the People's Republic of China
    After a near-complete victory by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen on October 1st 1949.
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    Great Leap Forward

    The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Zedong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to modern, industrial society—in just five years.
    The GLF resulted in the failure, because of the lack of central planning by the Chinese government. This became evident when researching the main causes that led to this catastrophic failure, as most of the causes that were listed were a direct result of this poor planning.