Chronicle TIMELINE
A chronological, causal record of the resistance, major political crises, and contemporary truth.
1949.10.01
·Verified
·Importance V
·Sources 2
·China
On October 1, 1949, the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China held its founding ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and the CCP regime was established.
1949.10
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
After the founding of New China in October 1949, Zhu Rongji joined the Chinese Communist Party, and after graduation he was assigned to work in Northeast China.
1949
·Hearsay
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Hong Kong
After the CCP established its regime in 1949, China Resources became the party property of the CCP, directly under the leadership of the General Office of the CCP Central Committee, with a Hong Kong Management Committee established, operating under the name of the China Resources Board of Directors.
1949
·Hearsay
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
The program claimed that after the Chinese Communist Party took power, in order to coordinate propaganda and win over celebrities in the arts and literary circles, it invited the quyi performer Luo Yusheng, who was then performing in Nanjing, to return to Tianjin; no public reports were found to verify this claim.
1949
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
Before the CCP came to power, Mao Zedong specifically consulted Stalin, and ultimately decided to set the capital in Beijing.
1949
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) publicly called for ethnic autonomy, supported Taiwan's independence, and advocated for universal suffrage.
1949
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
When the CCP came to power, it painted a blueprint of a free ideal country for the world, but the reality was the opposite of the truth revealed by archives.
1949
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
After 1949, a large number of Chinese social elites left China; related accounts regard this as the starting point of the subsequent changes in social structure.
1949
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Taixing City, Jiangsu
According to the account, the ex-husband of a childhood friend's grandmother, a local thug in Taixing, Jiangsu, was suppressed after the CCP established power in 1949.
1948.09.19
·Verified
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shanghai
On September 19, 1948, Han Xiu arrived in Shanghai. Thereafter, she served multiple times as a messenger helping Lao She and Zhao Qingge exchange letters, and personally witnessed the experiences of Lao She and the intellectuals around him.
1948.08.19
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
To curb hyperinflation, the Nationalist Government issued gold yuan notes and forced the public to hand over gold, silver and US dollars, and in the end the price-control policy collapsed.
1948
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Hong Kong
In 1948, Lianhe Hang was officially renamed China Resources. To welcome the first CPPCC meeting, it chartered a ship to transport democratic figures such as Guo Moruo and Li Jishen from Hong Kong back to the liberated areas.
1948
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
Han Xiu said that he returned to China after 1948, lived in China for about 30 years thereafter, and did not return to the United States until 1978.
1947.02.28
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Taiwan
The February 28 Incident in Taiwan sparked anger among local residents, after which the Kuomintang carried out a crackdown; the program described Chen Yi as the scapegoat after the incident.
1947
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
In 1947, Zhu Rongji was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Tsinghua University, where he majored in electrical machine manufacturing. While at the university, he was elected class monitor and president of the Tsinghua University Student Union.
1946
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·中国东北
Korean personnel took part in the war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang, with some Korean soldiers participating in the relevant military operations from the northeast direction.
1946
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·New York
Han Xiu was born in New York, USA, and later went through the experience of living in China and returning to the United States with his family.
1945.08.20
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·China
Stalin sent two urgent telegrams, warning that the CCP starting a civil war immediately after the end of the Anti-Japanese War would be national self-destruction.
1945.08.15
·Verified
·Importance V
·Sources 2
·Japan
Japan announced its surrender, and World War II came to an end accordingly.
1945.08.09
·Verified
·Importance V
·Sources 3
·日本长崎市
The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 70,000 people.
1945.08.06
·Verified
·Importance V
·Sources 2
·Hiroshima, Japan
The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in approximately 140,000 deaths.
1945.04.23
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·Yan'an, Shaanxi
At the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Liu Shaoqi delivered a report on revising the Party Constitution, writing Mao Zedong Thought into the constitution. Following the congress, he officially became the number two leader within the party.
1945
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·China
In "On Coalition Government," Mao Zedong proposed that a one-party government should not be implemented during the New Democracy stage, and that this stage would last a considerable length of time.
1945
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Germany
After the end of World War II, the United States and its allies helped Germany and Japan dismantle their militarist systems, rebuild their national institutions, and restore their economies, turning them into prosperous democratic nations.
1945
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Chongqing
Under Stalin's heavy pressure, Mao Zedong was forced to go to Chongqing to negotiate with the Kuomintang.
1945
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
The period from 1945 to 1991 was the Cold War, an era of confrontation between communism and capitalism, and between one-party dictatorship and pluralist political ideologies, occurring mainly between the Soviet Union and the United States.
1943
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Yan'an, Shaanxi
During the Yan'an Rectification Movement, Liu Shaoqi catered to Mao Zedong by publishing articles and beginning to use the term 'Mao Zedong Thought,' thereby establishing his political position within the party.
1943
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Chongqing
Han Xiu says her father served as military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Chongqing, responsible for keeping the Yunnan-Burma border and the Hump route open to transport resources in support of China's war of resistance against Japan.
1942.09.15
·Verified
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Tianjin
On September 15, 1942, Wen Jiabao was born into a scholarly family in Yixingbu, Tianjin.
1942.02.19
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·United States
U.S. President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, confining about 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast (two-thirds of them U.S. citizens) in concentration camps; it was later characterized by the U.S. government as racial prejudice and political failure.
1942
·Verified
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Taizhou, Jiangsu
Hu Jintao was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu, in 1942, during the chaotic years of the War of Resistance. When he was 7 years old, his mother died of illness, and his father, unable to support them, sent him and his sister to be raised by his aunt, enduring a childhood marked by war and the hardships of living under someone else's roof.
1940.11
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
About a month after the Battle of Huangqiao, the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, with ten regiments, proactively attacked Han Deqin's remaining forces at Caodian. The assault failed to succeed; Liu Shaoqi telegraphed that casualties were about 2,000 and the expenditure was heavy.
1940.10.04
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·江苏省泰州市黄桥
In October 1940, a force of about 15,000 men under Han Deqin attacked Huangqiao in northern Jiangsu. Chen Yi and Su Yu commanded the New Fourth Army in a counterattack. After Weng Da's brigade was annihilated, he committed suicide, and Li Shouwei, commander of the 89th Army, drowned.
1940.03
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·太行山
In March 1940, the Eighth Route Army concentrated 13 regiments in the Taihang Mountains to attack Nationalist forces stationed in Huai, causing their main force to rout and withdraw from the defense area.
1940
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·United Kingdom
During World War II, a bomb struck the museum, and the gallery has been closed to the public for 80 years since.