China Rev AOS1

Historians AOS1

100

"The Chinese people groaned under a regime Fascist in every quality except efficiency"

C.P. Fitzgerald, Nationalist Decade

200

authority was "based on force in a meritocracy of violence"

Jonathan Fenby, Warlord China

300

"it was one long battle from beggining to end"

Edgar Snow, The Long March

400

"Necessity was the mother of the CCP's reinvention"

Bratly Womack, Jiangxi Soviet

500

"This army was continuously beaten because it had no soul"

Journalist Jack Belden, GMD troops at the end of the Civil War

Quotes AOS1

100

"wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them"

Mao, The Yan'an Way

200

"We have stood up"

Mao, proclamation of PRC

300

"If I control the army, I will have the power to control the country. It is my road to leadership"

Jiang after death of Sun Yixian

400

"The ricksaw man and the wharf coolie are worse off than the horse and camel in many another country"

W.H. Donald, advisor to Nationalist Government during the 2nd sino-japanese war

500

"when we estimate the forces of the revolution, we must emphasis that the peasantry is the most important part"

Li Dazhao

Dates AOS1

100

10 October 1949

PRC Proclaimed

200

22 October 1935

Long March ends

300

6 July 1926

Jiang elected chairman of the GMD CEC, giving him full control of the party 6 days after launching the Northern Expedition

400

7 July 1937

Skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops triggers 2nd Sino-Japanese War

500

22 September 1937

2nd United Front declared

Stats AOS1

100

18% / 1.5%

CPP reduced loan rates from 18 to 1.5 per cent in Yan'an

200

85,000 / 750,000

Nationalist / combined Warlord troops in the Long march

300

85,000%

Nationalist inflation rate by 1949

400

69,500 / 268 / 13

reported to the Control Yuan, officials found at fault, officials sacked

500

1 million / 4.5 million

CCP member ship in 1945 / CCP membership at end of Civil War