Category: 历史

The Cultural Revolution in the People’s Republic of China began in 1966 and lasted until 1976. The movement was initiated by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong who had become concerned that Chinese communist ideology […]

The Long March was led by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1934-35. Mao, born into a peasant family in 1893, started his political career as a student of Marxism […]

The Boxer Rebellion of 1899-1901 was an anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China. The rebellion was composed of several different Chinese secret societies, known as the “Boxers”, which sought to rid China […]

The first emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Yuanzhang, also known as Hongwu Emperor. He was a general in the late Yuan Dynasty and the founder of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang became involved […]

The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale civil war that took place in China from 1850-1864. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in human history, resulting in an estimated 20 million casualties and lasting […]

The Opium Wars were two successive wars that took place in the 19th century between China and the United Kingdom (known as the “Arrow War” or the “First Opium War”) and between China and France […]

The Qin Dynasty began in 221 BC with the enthronement of Qin Shi Huang as the first emperor of China. The Qin Dynasty was the first Imperial Dynasty of China and lasted until 207 BC, […]

The Taiping Rebellion had a profound and far-reaching impact on China, both in terms of politics and society, and has been argued to have set the course for the future of the country in many […]

The Sino-Japanese War was an armed conflict that took place between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan from July 1894 to April 1895. It is also known as the War of […]

The Battle of Red Cliffs, which took place in 208 AD during the late Eastern Han Dynasty period of China, was fought between two powerful warlords—the warlord Cao Cao and the allied forces of Liu […]