East Asia · Empire, war and the modern states
Chinese Communists
drawn on the map 1928–1931
The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai (with figures including Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, and the young Mao Zedong), allied with and then broke from the KMT (the 1927 Shanghai Massacre). Driven to rural bases, it built the Red Army, survived the Long March (1934–1935) to Yan'an under Mao's rising leadership, and grew during the anti-Japanese war.
- Shown on the map
- 1928–1931
- Peak area
- 39k km²
- Region
- East Asia
Overview
The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai (with figures including Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, and the young Mao Zedong), allied with and then broke from the KMT (the 1927 Shanghai Massacre). Driven to rural bases, it built the Red Army, survived the Long March (1934–1935) to Yan'an under Mao's rising leadership, and grew during the anti-Japanese war. It defeated the KMT in the civil war and founded the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Common questions
- What were the Chinese Communists?
- The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai (with figures including Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, and the young Mao Zedong), allied with and then broke from the KMT (the 1927 Shanghai Massacre). Driven to rural bases, it built the Red Army, survived the Long March (1934–1935) to Yan'an under Mao's rising leadership, and grew during the anti-Japanese war.
- When are the Chinese Communists shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Chinese Communists 1928–1931. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large were the Chinese Communists?
- At their greatest extent drawn on this map, the Chinese Communists covered about 39,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives them across the years they are drawn, not necessarily their greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Chinese Communist Party en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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