Roosevelt sent special envoy Lauchlin Currie to talk with Chiang Kai-shek and KMT party leaders to express their concern regarding the hostility between the two parties, with Currie stating that the only ones to benefit from a civil war would be the Japanese. The Soviet Union, allied more ...
At the second forum held in 2019, 40 leaders, including heads of state and government from 38 countries, the UN secretary-general and the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, attended the Leaders’ Roundtable. More than 6,000 representatives participated, from over 150 countries and ...
On 22 October 1936, Chiang flew to Xi'an from and announced his new plan of suppression of the communist forces, raising opposition from both and . On 4 December 1936, Chiang came to Xi'an again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders including to monitor the suppression campaign. In...
Chiang reversed Sun's policy of cooperation with the Communists and executed many of their leaders. Thus began the long civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Chiang established (1928) a government in Nanjing and obtained foreign recognition. A Communist government was set up in the...
The long Chinese Civil War began in April of 1927 and was a conflict in China between the Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists. The force that was loyal to the Chinese government was called theKuomintang(KMT), and they fought with theCommunist Party of China(CPC). The war ended in ...
Fiction during the first years after the 1949 Communist revolution depicted the great social transformations taking place. Party leaders advocatedsocialist realism, which was marked by strict adherence to party doctrine and by a narrow emphasis on the credible depiction of external reality; it inhibited...
Instructed to burn a batch of commemorative porcelains for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in Jingdezhen as a gift to the leaders of the Allied Powers in World War II. About Chiang Kai-shek’s specific instructions can be obtained from the telecommunications bulletin published in Shanghai...
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Chinese Civil War, (1945–49) was a military struggle for control of China waged between the Nationalists (Kuomintang) under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Zedong. During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), China was effectively divided into three regions—Nationalist China ...
The Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) was a state within China, proclaimed on 7 November 1931 by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders Mao Zedong and Zhu De in the early stages of the Chinese Civil War. The discontiguous territories of the CSR included 18 provinces and 4 counties under the Comm...