Complex sentence: After the defeat of the Kuomintang, in 1949 he went into exile first in Hong Kong, then to Canada and died in a beadhouse during an unusually cold winter in 1979 having converted to Christianity the year before.
Split into simpler sentences: After the defeat of the Kuomintang in 1949 he went into exile, first in Hong Kong, then in Canada. There he died in a beadhouse during an unusually cold winter in 1979, having converted to Christianity the year before.