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Qing Empire
Throughout the 17th century and up the 19th century the Ching dinasty loosely reigned over China as it was plagued by regionalism and corruption to make matters worse European merchants arrived in China on mass during the 18th century these Westeners arriving where driven by fisical interests and some would later say that it was the wave of Merchants, who would spell China's near ruin. -
Japan
Things were looking good up after their decisive victory over the Chinese in the sinojapanese war.
Richard Bernstein's work, he writes this of the conflict.
"Japan's mayor goal was the possession of Korea and Manchuria, the vast land masses just across the sea that were stepping-stones toward the even large prize, Which was China.
This defeat prompted cries for reform -
Boxer Rebellion
The Qing government found itself in a even more precarious position -
Wu Chun Revolution
The government was fully overthrown in what was called the Wu Chun Revolution the leaders of his revolution selected the exiled Intellectual Sun yat-sen to be China's first president in 1912.
Their territories were limited to southern China, the boy Emperor Puyi remained in power in the north, he was backed by General Yuan Shikai, who had the largest army in the region and therefore pretty much called the shots. -
Communist territory
Die thousands of members of the CPC in the aftermath communist leaders lead Lee Sung and Mao Zedong, while this was happening the soviet union who saw the CPC as their communist allies directed to take a more aggressive stance against the Kuomintang as a result Lee Lisan order an offensive to be carried out against the Nantionalists -
Bolsheviks
It was a disaster and led to his replacement by a group of Chinese intellectuals called d28 Bolsheviks with warlords still in control of numerous regions and the two major political factions of China in all-out war the situations was looking worse than ever -
Kuomintang
Japan did invaded that year the Kuomintang proved unable to fully repulse the invaders something which worried the Chinese people and now capitalized on his discontent to recruit even more men to his cause, furthermore his forces did not engage those of Japan very frequently allowing the Kuomintang to bear the Japanese onslaught.
After Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945 -
Official Republic of China
This day it has the official name of Republic of china
