A Timeline History of Recent China (1839-1976)

The Several Timelines And Short Discussions In Each Page In This Book Make It Easy For One To Glance Over And Detect The Cause-And-Effects Between Successive Events In Recent China That Is: In The Turbulent Years From Opium War To Deng Xiao-Ping. An Observation Is: China Has Been Deteriorating By Itself For 40 Years Before The Opium War With Britain In 1839; Then It Took Another 137 Years Including Two Internal Revolutions Several More Wars Against External Aggressors (Especially The Newly Industrialized Japan) Plus A Devastating Cultural Revolution - Before China Could Regain Its Footing And Rejoined The World As Equals. The Politics In Foreign Countries Relating To Events In China Are Pointed Out.