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China’s Revolutionary Century

1842 - 1949

Part IV: The Republic (1912-1949)

© Howard R. Spendelow

Georgetown Universityrevised 08 Apr 2013

Terms for China’s Revolutionary Century

Hong Xiuquan (Huaxian, now Huaduqu); Kang Youwei (Nanhai); Sun Yat-

sen (Cuiheng village, Xiangshanxian, now Zhongshanxian)

Sun Yat-sen

Yuan Shikai 袁世凱 , 1912

Chen Duxiu (1879-1942)

”New Youth” magazine

Lu Xun [Zhou Shuren] (1881-1936)

Hu Shi (1891-1962)

Li Dazhou

”Warlord” China – mid-1920s

Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石 (1887-1975) at Whampoa 黃浦 , 1924

advertisement for Golden Dragon cigarettes, 1925

Whampoa Military Academy, c. 1925

“National Humiliation Illustrated (c.1931-1932)

Zhang Zuolin (1873-1928)

Northern Expedition, phase 1

Northern Expedition, phase 2

Canton, December 1927

Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong May-ling (1 December 1927)

Charlie Soong (c. 1864-1918) as a student at Vanderbilt

the Soong Sisters (Ailing, Qingling, Meiling)

Zhang Zuolin’s RR car (June 1928)

Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001)

”Mukden Incident” / 9-1-8

Japan in NE Asia / “Manchukuo”

CCP-controlled areas, early 1930s

CCP Soviets, 1927-1934

Long March, phase 1

Long March, phase 2

Xi’an (Sian) Incident, December 1936

NY Daily News: Shanghai,23 Dec 1936: “Mei-ling Soong, most beautiful woman in China, began dickering today with a one-time

opium addict, Chang Hsueh-Liang, for the ransom of her kidnapped husband, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, dictator of

over 300,000,000 Chinese.”

The crisis ends…

劇終(the end)

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