Author Archives: Rujie Wang

Three-Year difficult period (三年自然灾害): famine and paying debts to U.S.S.R after the Sino-Soviet rift

3-anti- (corruption, waste, bureaucracy) 5-anti- (bribery, tax-evasion, fraud, do shoddy work and inferior material, steal economic secrets) campaigns; Korean War;

People’s Republic of China formally established by CCP; the defeated GMD nationalist troops fled to Taiwan

Japan occupied north, central and south coastal Chinese areas; the rape of Nanking; GMD government moved to Chongqing

Japanese bombed and occupied Shanghai; 2nd United Front formed between GMD and CCP

Long March of the Red Army began, led by Mao Zedong, elected chairman of Central Committee of CCP