Imperial China Collapses

Chapter 30 Section 3

Republic of China

• 1911, Qing Dynasty is overthrown

• Qing ruled China since 1644

• 1912, Republic of China was established

Sun Yixian

May Fourth Movement

May Fourth Movement

Democracy vs. Communism

Democracy in China Communism in China

Jiang Jieshi Mao Zedong

Civil War in China (1928-1949)

• Communists (Red Army) vs. Nationalists

• The Long March (1934-1935)

• 1937, civil war came to a halt in order to fight Japan

The Long March

• 1934-1935• 6,000 Miles Long• Crossed Swamplands• Crossed 18 Mountain

Ranges• Crossed 24 Rivers

The Luding Bridge

"The Long March is a manifesto. It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their running dogs, Chiang Kai-shek and his like, are impotent. It has proclaimed their utter failure to encircle, pursue, obstruct and intercept us. The Long March is also a propaganda force. It has announced to some 200 million people in eleven provinces that the road of the Red Army is their only road to liberation.“

-Mao Zedong

“The greatest strategic retreat in military history turned Mao into a living legend.”

—Roderick MacFarquhar, Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor, A&E Biography, 2005