Marked Wuchang

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

China’s revolutions, 1911 to 1949

The last emperor fell in 1911, and China became a republic. Warlords, the Nationalists, the Communists and the Japanese invasion fought over the country until the Communists won in 1949.

Place
Wuchang · Nanjing · Yan’an · BeijingAsia
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeAn empire ruled by the Qing.

  1. IThe 1911 revolution
  2. IISun Yat-sen
  3. IIIThe May Fourth movement
  4. IVNationalists and Communists
  5. VThe Long March
  6. VIWar with Japan
  7. VII1949

AfterThe People’s Republic of China, and a Nationalist government on Taiwan.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Sun Yat-sen
  • Chiang Kai-shek
  • Soong Ching-ling
  • Mao Zedong

Objects

  • Propaganda posters
  • The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1911 to 1949. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?