Category: 历史

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of widespread pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in and around the Tiananmen Square area of Beijing, China. The protests marked the largest civil unrest in Communist China […]

The Great Leap Forward was a campaign initiated by Mao Zedong, the leader of the People’s Republic of China, beginning in 1958. The goal of this campaign was to rapidly transform China’s economy from an […]

The People’s Republic of China was founded on October 1, 1949, by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP was led by Mao Zedong, who established a single-party socialist state based upon Marxism–Leninism. This marked […]

The Chinese Civil War began in April of 1927, when the Kuomintang (KMT), led by Chiang Kai-shek, launched a military campaign against Communist-controlled areas throughout China. The KMT had been ruling China since 1911, but […]

The unification of China is a complex and ongoing process and has been the result of several large-scale campaigns and movements over the course of centuries. In 2000, the Government of the People’s Republic of […]

The Chinese nation, known today as Zhonghua minzu in Chinese, is a multi-ethnic cultural entity and has a recorded history of more than 4,000 years. While China has undergone several dynasties and tremendous social changes […]

Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution, which ran from 1966 to 1976. Mao was the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the country’s paramount leader from […]

Empress Dowager Cixi, born 1835 and given the name “Yehenara,” was the de-facto ruler of China for nearly five decades during the late Qing dynasty. She was born into a Manchu military family and orphaned […]

Empress Wu Zetian (624 – 705 CE) was the only female ruler of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, and a major figure in Chinese history. She brought stability to the empire and ushered in an era […]

Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as The Story of the Stone, is one of the most acclaimed works of Chinese literature, written by celebrated novelist Cao Xueqin during the middle part of the […]