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MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

Objective chronological listing of significant events leading up to modern China.

1949 - 1965

• Founding of the People’s Republic of China (1949)
  
• Land reform in Taiwan (1949-1953)
  
• Land reform in mainland China (1950 - 1952)
  
• The Three-Anti Campaign (1951)
  
• The Five-Anti Campaign (1952)
  
• Korean War (1950 - 1953)
  
• Election of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly (1951)
  
• Hundred Flowers Movement (1956)
  
• Anti-Rightists Movement (1957)
  
• The Great Leap Forward (1958 - 62)
  
• The People's Republic of China splits with the Soviet Union (1960)