On 1 October 1949 CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory by the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War. The PRC
On October 2, 1949, the Soviet Union was the first country to officially recognize the People's Republic of China after its establishment.
Backyard furnaces were commonly used to produce steel during the Great Leap Forward.
Red Guards on Tiananmen Square during the Cultural Revolution (1967)
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited PRC and met with Mao Zedong in 1958.
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts be
History of the People's Republic of China
…reforms marked China's transition away from planned economy. China adopted its current constitution on 4 December 1982. In 1989, there were protests such those in Tiananmen Square, and then throughout the entire nation. Jiang Zemin was elevated to become the CCP general secretary, becoming the paramount leader. China's economy…
Události na náměstí Tian an men, Čína 1989, foto Jiří Tondl
A slogan inside the Former Residence of Hu Yaobang, a leading reformist whose death triggered the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989
Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) was the Paramount Leader of China.
Han Dongfang, founder of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation