Istoriia Kitaia v dvadtsatom veke - Glushakov V.

Chinese civilization is one of the longest-standing in the world, but the country we know today has been forged for the most part by the events of the twentieth century. This unique, full of drama and dynamics experience knows no analogues in the history of mankind. At the dawn of the century, the extremely weak Chinese Empire was gripped by the revolutionary movement that led to the fall of the imperial house of Tsing and the creation of the Republic of China. The new state association was at the mercy of local feudal lords, greedy to money and not considered with the needs of the people. The constant struggle for power between the cliques of militarists allowed to strengthen the nationalist Kuomintang party led by Chiang Kai-shek, who established his hard diktat in the country and began a desperate struggle with the main political opponents - the Communists. In China, a civil war broke out, which lasted until 1949. Meanwhile, in 1931, Japan, in an effort to become a colonial power and gain access to resources, occupied Manchuria, which in fact...