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China in Revolution, 1911–1949

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China in Revolution, 1911–1949 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 18 dated maps and 47 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Xinhai Revolution of 1911
CHAPTER 1 · 1911
Yuan Shikai and the early republic
CHAPTER 2 · 1915
Warlord Era and May Fourth Movement
CHAPTER 3 · 1924
Northern Expedition and United Front
CHAPTER 4 · 1926
Shanghai purge and Nanjing decade
CHAPTER 5 · 1929
Jiangxi Soviet and the encirclements
CHAPTER 6 · 1934
Long March
CHAPTER 7 · 1935
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–38)
CHAPTER 8 · 1938
Sino-Japanese War stalemate
CHAPTER 9 · 1944
Chinese Civil War (1945–47)
CHAPTER 10 · 1946
Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin campaigns
CHAPTER 11 · 1948
Communist victory in China (1949)
CHAPTER 12 · 1949

Chinese Revolution maps by year

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Battles, events and sites of memory

✕ Battle of Guangchang✕ Battle of Hengyang✕ Battle of Jinzhou✕ Battle of Luding Bridge✕ Battle of Shanghai✕ Battle of Siping✕ Battle of Taierzhuang✕ Battle of Tingsi Bridge✕ Battle of Xiang River◆ Bombing of Chongqing● Burma Road✕ Central Plains War◆ Changsha fire● Chinese Soviet Republic● Chongqing negotiations● Crossing the Songpan Grasslands● Fall of Yan’an● First National Congress of the CCP● Founding of the People’s Republic◆ Henan famine✕ Huaihai campaign● Huanggutun Incident✕ Marco Polo Bridge Incident● May Fourth Movement◆ May Thirtieth Incident● Mukden Incident✕ Nanchang Uprising◆ Nanjing Massacre● National Protection War● Nationalist retreat to Taiwan● Outer Mongolia declares independence● Presidency of Yuan Shikai✕ Second Zhili–Fengtian War● Shanghai International Settlement◆ Shanghai massacre◆ Siege of Changchun● Siege of Tsingtao● Soviet invasion of Manchuria● Surrender of Beiping● Tibet expels the Qing garrison● Whampoa Military Academy● Wuchang Uprising● Xibaipo headquarters● Xi’an Incident✕ Yangtze River Crossing campaign◆ Yellow River flood● Zunyi Conference

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