Category: Asia

Guomindang and the Communist Party Sun Zhongshan in 1912 organized the Nationalist Party (Guomindang), but Yuan Shikai, declared illegal, brought the capital back to…

Delegates from the CCP, 11 other smaller parties and the people’s army approved a provisional constitution. In 1950 an agrarian reform law was promulgated,…

The civil war between Nationalists and Communists came to an end on the Chinese continent during the year 1949. Faced with the superior organization…

Prehistory Fossil records document that China was inhabited from the lower Paleolithic. In particular, the man of Yuanmou has been dated over 1 million…

After the government moved to Formosa (T’aiwan), Chiang Kai-shek resumed power on 1 March 1950. The capital was established in T’aipei. In the early…

In the meantime, the economy must still be directed from above and perhaps also supported by massive injections of public money destined for infrastructures…

Towards traditional Chinese religions, the attitude of the Beijing government was different for Buddhism and Taoism. While Taoism, the Chinese national religion that has…

Newly constituted, the government of the People’s Republic of China expressed a desire to establish diplomatic relations “on the basis of equality, mutual benefit…

The first initiative of the new regime in the field of customs reform was the law on marriage, promulgated on April 13, 1950. It…

Despite the Korean War, the country’s economic reconstruction progressed; the inflationary process stopped and production exceeded that of the pre-war period. The first five-year…

Japan’s military operations in China during World War II are seamlessly linked to the Sino-Japanese conflict that broke out in July 1937 (for which…

Taiwan: sovereign state or Chinese province? According to Equzhou, Taiwan Island, also called Formosa, has offered refuge to the nationalist government of Guomindang, led…

The year 1999, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC, had also seen the realization, in December, of another dream long cherished…

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Central-eastern Asian state. The numerous disputes affecting the extended border perimeter of the China are favorably affected by the choice…

If 2001 is to be considered as the year of the entry of the PRC into the WTO, the two-year period 2002-03 must be…

Routes of communication. – According to Animalerts, the China was up to now very poorly equipped with railways; this hindered exchanges and stimulated autarchic…

The territory. – In the last twenty years, the Chinese territory has increased in several respects: with the reunification of Macao and Hong Kong,…

In 1928 the Chinese Ministry of the Interior promulgated a series of regulations intended to take over the population census: due, however, to the…

Population and society With around 1.3 billion people, nearly a fifth of the world’s population, China is the most populous state on the planet….