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China Today
- Greg Austin, Cyber Policy in China
- David S. G. Goodman, Class in Contemporary China
- Stuart Harris, China's Foreign Policy
- Elaine Jeffreys with Haiqing Yu, Sex in China
- You Ji, Chinas Military Transformation
- Michael Keane, Creative Industries in China
- Joe C. B. Leung and Yuebin Xu, China's Social Welfare
- Orna Naftali, Children in China
- Pitman B. Potter, China's Legal System
- Xuefei Ren, Urban China
- Judith Shapiro, China's Environmental Challenges
- Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu, The Global Rise of China
- Teresa Wright, Party and State in Post-Mao China
- LiAnne Yu, Consumption in China
- Xiaowei Zang, Ethnicity in China
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Copyright Steven M. Goldstein 2015
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First published in 2015 by Polity Press
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China and Taiwan / Steven Goldstein.
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Chronology
1895 | Taiwan becomes a Japanese colony by the Treaty of Shimonoseki |
191112 | Chinese republican revolution and fall of the Qing dynasty |
193745 | Anti-Japanese war |
1943 | Cairo Conference calls for Taiwan to be returned to China after the war |
19459 | Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists (KMT) and the Communists (CCP) |
1945 | Kuomintang troops accept the Japanese surrender on Taiwan |
1947 | February 28 uprising (2.28) |
1949 | Founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC); Kuomintang-dominated Republic of China moves to Taiwan |
19503 | Korean War; Truman orders US Seventh Fleet to prevent any attack on Taiwan and calls for the ROC to stop operations against the mainland |
19537 | First Five-Year Plan: the PRC adopts Soviet-style economic planning |
1954 | Constitution of the PRC implemented: first meeting of the National People's Congress; the US signs Mutual Defence Treaty with the ROC |
19545 | First Taiwan Strait crisis |
1957 | Hundred Flowers movement: brief period of political debate followed by repressive anti-rightist movement |
1958 | Second Taiwan Strait crisis |
195860 | Great Leap Forward: Chinese Communist Party aims to transform the agrarian economy through rapid industrialization and collectivization |
1959 | Tibetan uprising and the departure of the Dalai Lama for India |
195961 | Three years of natural disasters: widespread famine, with millions of deaths resulting largely from the policies of the Great Leap Forward |
1960 | Sino-Soviet split |
1962 | Sino-Indian border skirmishes |
1964 | First PRC atom bomb detonation |
1971 | UN General Assembly votes to replace the ROC with the People's Republic of China as representative of China |
196676 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
February 1972 | Shanghai Communiqu, issued during Richard Nixon's visit to China, pledges that neither the US nor China will seek hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region |
April 1975 | Death of Chiang Kai-shek |
July 1976 | The Great Tangshan Earthquake: by death toll, the largest earthquake of the twentieth century |
September 1976 | Death of Mao Zedong |
October 1976 | Ultra-leftist Gang of Four removed from leadership |
197889 | Democracy Wall movement |
1978 | Beginning of Chinese economic reform and openness |
1978 | Introduction of one-child policy restricting married urban couples to one child |
1979 | Diplomatic relations established between the US and the PRC and broken with the ROC; US Congress passes Taiwan Relations Act |
1979 | PRC invades Vietnam |
1982 | US and PRC sign arms sales communiqu |
December 1984 | Margaret Thatcher co-signs Sino-British Joint Declaration agreeing to transfer sovereignty over Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997 |
1986 | Democratic Progressive Party founded |
January 1988 | Chiang Ching-kuo dies and is succeeded as president of the ROC by Lee Teng-hui |
1989 | Tiananmen Square movement and crackdown |
19892002 | Jiang Zemin serves as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the PRC |
1991 | Period of national mobilization for suppression of the communist rebellion ended |
1992 | Deng Xiaoping's southern inspection tour restarts process of economic reform and development; ARATS and SEF meet in Singapore |
1995 | Lee Teng-hui visits the United States |
1996 | Mainland conducts missile tests during Taiwan elections; US sends two aircraft carrier groups to the area; Lee Teng-hui elected president of the ROC |
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