Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Founding of the People’s Republic (1949)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The People’s Republic”
1 Oct 1949 — From the Gate of Heavenly Peace, Mao proclaims the People’s Republic of China: “the Chinese people have stood up.” Thirty-eight years after Wuchang, the succession to the Qing is finally settled — at a cost this atlas’s final chart tries, soberly, to count.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Communist victory in China (1949) (chapter 12 of Chinese Revolution)
- Atlas
- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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- Mao’s China
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