China's Communist Revolution
Subtitle: Fifty Years of The People's Republic of China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780700716302
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Marxism & Communism; Revolutions & coups; History: World; History; History - General History; China; Asia - China; History / China
First sentence: The collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 left a leadership vacuum that was not filled until Mao Zedong announced on October 1, 1949, at Beijing's Tiananmen Square the creation of a Chinese socialist state, thus unifying China.