Timeline

1839-42                       Opium Wars

1901                            Boxer Rebellion

1911                            Manchu Dynasty ends

1925-49                      Civil War (Warlord Era)

1959                            Great Leap Forward

1965                            Cultural Revolutionbegins

1982                            Free markets begin

1989                            Tian’anmen Square

I. Late Imperial China

Europeans desire trade with China

Opium Wars 1839-42

1835 over 2 million Chinese addicts

loss of lands, reparations and extraterritoriality

Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864

Culture in the 1800s

Bound feet – Eunuchs – Philosophy

Chinese vs. Manchus

Boxer Rebellion

Revolution of 1911

Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925)

II. Japan sneaks in

Moving into Manchuria after 1890

1930s Japan has 100,000s of families

1931 Manchurian incident - Kingdom of Manchukuo established 1932.

III. Warlord Era, Japanese invasion and Civil War

Chiang Kai-Shek

Mao Tse-Tung

IV. Two Chinese Nations

1949 Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China

1950-3 Korean War

VI. Life under Chairman Mao

1957-8 "Let 100 Flowers Bloom"

1959 Great Leap Forward

1960 Split with USSR

1962 great famine

1965 Cultural Revolution

     "little red book"

1972 Nixon visits China - end of isolation

VII. Deng Xioping rises to power

1978-9 Democracy Wall

1982 Limited free market begins

1989 Tian'anmen Square

1999 Hong Kong accession

2000 spread of capitalism

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