Mao Zedong - Chinese Revolution, Communism, Chairman: Nevertheless, when the communists did take power in China, both Mao and Stalin had to make the best of the situation. In December 1949 Mao, now chairman of the People’s Republic of China—which he ha
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1911 and dominant in China from 1928 until 1949 under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. Since then it has been the official ruling party of Taiwan [C20: from Chinese (Mandarin): National People's Party, from...
Cultural Revolution,Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution- a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos ...
When the Japanese attacked Shanghai in 1937, Jiang fled to the Chinese Nationalist wartime capital at Chongqing, where she worked for the government-controlled Central Movie Studio until she crossed the Nationalist lines. She went throughXi’anto join the communist forces inYan’anand started to use...
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The Revolution was led by Mao Tse-Tung and his followers and took place in stages, putting certain Marxist and Leninist conceptions into practice in China and involving both a violent overthrow of the existing government and the long process of transforming Chinese society into a socialist ...
government departments to be more open in reporting information. The decree, signed by Premier Wen Jiabao, is likely to become the country's most specific and progressive set of rules encouraging the release of government information, when it takes effect on May 1, 2008. (Click for full ...
Sun Yat-sen, October 10, 1911, is commemorated each year in Chinatowns by groups closely associated with the Nationalist government in Taiwan. Not as widely observed are the Children's Day ( er tong jie ) on June 1, Woman's Day ( fu nu jie ) on March 8, and May Day ( lao dong...
After the 2008 global financial crisis, to mitigate the impact of the crisis in the Chinese economy, the Chinese government introduced a 4 trillion RMB (renminbi) economic stimulus plan in 2009. Among the four trillion yuan—the yuan is the basic unit of the renminbi—the local government is...
Song Binbin (right) placing a Red Guard armband on the sleeve of Mao Zedong during... Keystone—Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesVIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: Media for: Richard Nixon Media for: Jiang Zemin Media for: Deng Xiaoping Media for: Chiang Kai-shek History...