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Did you know...
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[edit]- ... that the Central Plains War (prominent combatants pictured), fought in China from 1929 to 1930, involved more than one million troops?
- ... that the Battle of Wuhan was the largest ground battle of the Far East theatre of World War II?
- ... that the Liaoshen Campaign was a decisive 52-day engagement in the creation of Communist China?"
- ... that the Second Guangzhou Uprising was the prelude to the Wuchang Uprising, the uprising that resulted in the transfer of China from a feudalistic country into a republic?
- ... that the National Protection War led to the death of Yuan Shikai, which led to the beginning of the Warlord Era in China?
- ... that the Chinese reunification of 1928 ended the Warlord Era, in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the flags of Kuomintang, thus nominally reunifying China?
- ... that the vast Mongol Empire, once stretched from East Asia to Romania, was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion?
- ... that the Qiandao Lake Incident in 1994 caused 32 Taiwanese tourist deaths, and as the Chinese government were ineffective on solving the case, the incident led to massive increase of support of Taiwanese independence in Taiwan?
- ... that the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China was the first ever constitution in China?
- ... that the main building at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto belongs to one of the Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan?
- ... that Yongle Emperor (pictured) took over the Ming Dynasty throne by launching the Jingnan Campaign?
- ... that Yamamoto Yaeko is being portrayed by Haruka Ayase in the current NHK taiga drama Yae no Sakura?
- ... that the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma Campaign was commanded by an American general?
- ... that Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong met for the last time during the Chongqing Negotiations?
- ... that the People's Liberation Army captured Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, three days after launching the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign?