1. 20c China: From Republic to Communist Power

5. Map of “Sun’s China” in 1912 Note the term “spheres of influence”

9. China in 1924

10. Chiang Kai-shek Becomes President of Nationalist China, 1928 Mao Zedong

12. Mao With His Children, 1930s

14. Survivors of the March

15. Japan Invades China 1937

16. Japanese Aggression 1931 - 1945

17. Victims of the Japanese bombing of Shanghai.

18. Japanese Soldiers March into Nanking December 9, 1937

19. The Japanese Invasion, 1937

20. Japanese Bayonet Practice

21. Beheadings Took Place in Public!

22. UNIT 731: Bio-Chemical Warfare

23. The Communist Revolution: 1946 - 1949

25. The Peoples’ Liberation Army, 1949 The Communist Victory

26. Taiwan: The Republic of China The People’s Republic of China

29. The Great Leap Forward (or Backward?) 1958-1961

33. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966 - 1976

36. A Red Guard Young students held mass rallies to support Mao & “root” out those who did not “fully” support Mao.

38. With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word 'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the word 'Usefullness'. (1968) Cult of Personality

39. The reddest, reddest, red sun in our heart, Chairman Mao, and us together Zhejiang Workers, Farmers and Soldiers Art Academy collective, 1968 Mao’s Little Red Book

41. Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers, and into the thick of struggle! 1967-1972

42. Propaganda Poster

43. Propaganda Poster

45. “ Ping-Pong Diplomacy”: U. S. Players at Great Wall, 1971 "The ping heard round the world." – Time Magazine

46. Mao Meets President Nixon, 1972

48. Power Struggle Modernists Communist Traditionalists Zhou Enlai “ The Gang of Four” : Jiang Qin, Chen Boda, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan 1976

49. Communist Government and a Capitalist Economy

51. Gap Between Rich & Poor Deng : If you open a window, some flies naturally get in!

53. Tiananmen Square, 1989 More democracy!

54. Tiananmen Square, 1989 Student activist, Wang Dan, Beijing University

55. Tiananmen Square, 1989 Democracy—Our Common Ideal!

56. Tiananmen Square, 1989 The “ Goddess of Democracy ”

57. Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Government Clamps Down

58. Tiananmen Square, 1989 One Lone Man’s Protest

59. Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Massacre: The People’s Army Moves In

60. Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Army Looks for Dissidents

61. Tiananmen Square, 1989 Student Leaders Are Arrested

62. Tiananmen Square, 1989 Chinese Students Mourn the Dead

63. Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Reestablishment of Order

65. Demography

69. What’s the Message Here?