Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Nationalist retreat to Taiwan (1949)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The republic offshore”
8 Dec 1949 — The Nationalist government moves to Taipei with the navy, the air force, two million soldiers and refugees, the treasury’s gold and the Palace Museum’s crates. Two states now claim this map — and the strait between them is still governed by that December.
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- Turning point
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- Communist victory in China (1949) (chapter 12 of Chinese Revolution)
- Atlas
- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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