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H297 Modern China | 2017-2018 Timeline Song 960-1279 (commercialised, urbanised, educated, growing …) Yuan / China as part of the Mongol Empire 1271-1368 Ming 1368-1644 Qing / Manchu Empire 1636/1644-1911 Kangxi Emperor (r.1662-1722) Yongzheng Emperor (r.1723-1735) Qianlong Emperor (r.1736-1795) 1755-1759 Dzungar campaign 1794-1804 White Lotus Rebellion Jiaqing Emperor (r.1796-1820) 1799 Qianlong’s death Daoguang Emperor (r.1821-1850) 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, following the first Opium War (1839-1842) Xianfeng Emperor (r.1851-1861) 1850-1864 Taiping Civil War (capital in Nanjing from 1853) – 30m people died Zeng Guofan 1855-1872 Panthay Rebellion (in Yunnan in the southwest) Tongzhi reign (1862-1874) Tongzhi Restoration | ‘Self-strengthening’ | ‘Western affairs’ (yangwu) reforms Li Hongzhang 1862-1877 Muslim (Dungan) Rebellion (in Shaanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang in the northwest) Guangxu reign (1875-1908) 1876-1879 Great North-China Famine – 9.5m-13m people died 1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War (fought over Korea), Treaty of Shimonoseki 1898 Hundred Days Reforms | Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao 1900 Boxer Rebellion Xuantong reign (1909-1912) 1911 Revolution | Wuchang Uprising | Sun Yatsen | founding of Nationalist Party or Guomindang, aka Kuomintang (GMD/KMT)

H297 Modern China | 2017-2018 Republic of China 1911Beiyang government (1912-1928) | Yuan Shikai (president 1913-1916) 1915 Twenty-One Demands 1919 May Fourth Movement 1921 Communist Party (CCP) founded in Shanghai | Mao Zedong 1926-1928 Northern Expedition | First United Front Nanjing Decade (1928-1937) | Jiang Jieshi, aka Chiang Kai-shek 1931 Mukden (Shenyang) Incident 1934-1946 Long March, from the Chinese Soviet Republic in Jiangxi to the new base in Yan’an (in the north of Shaanxi province) 1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War 1946-1949 Civil War People’s Republic of China 1949-

Republic of China continues on Taiwan

1950-1953 Korean War 1956 Hundred Flowers campaign 1957 Anti-Rightist Movement 1958-1962 Great Leap forward & Famine – ca 30m people died 1959 Military occupation of Tibet 1960 Sino-Soviet split 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution Decade 1972 Nixon in China – diplomatic marginalisation of Taiwan 1976 Deaths of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, Tangshan earthquake, fall of Jiang Qing 1978 Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee | Reform and Opening (gaige kaifang) | Deng Xiaoping 1978-1980 Democracy Wall 1986 Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) founded in Taiwan 1987 End of Martial Law in Taiwan 1989 Tiananmen massacre 1997 Hong Kong Handover | Death of Deng Xiaoping...