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1974 Jan 17 1974 Jan 19 |
China occupied the Paracel Islands following the Battle of Hoang Sea, a bloody skirmish with Vietnam. Links: China, Vietnam 
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1974 Feb 4 |
Mao Tse-tung proclaimed a new "cultural revolution" in China. Links: China
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1974 |
Columnist Jack Anderson blew the cover of CIA agent James Lilley, attached to the US representative office in Beijing. In 2004 James and Jeffrey Lilley authored “China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy in Asia.” Links: USA, China, CIA, Journalism
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1974 |
In China Wan Xizhe wrote an anti-government petition and was sent to prison for 14 of the next 19 years for his campaign for democracy and human rights. Links: China
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1974 |
In China the Li Yi Zhe manifesto attacked communist privileges and corruption. Links: China, Corruption
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Mao launched the “Learn from Dazhai” campaign. The Chinese agricultural settlement at Dazhai was set up as a Communist utopia and peasants were encouraged to plow deep. Links: China
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1974 |
Deaths from cancer began to escalate in the village of Dragon Range in the mountains of Central China. Tests in 2000 showed high levels of lead and arsenic from 4 factories in a nearby valley. Links: China, Cancer
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1974 |
In China an ancient terracotta army created by Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor (221-206BC) was discovered by a peasant digging a well. It represented one of the greatest archaeological finds of modern times, and was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1987. Archeologists continued to unearth terracotta figurines from the site into 2012. Links: China, Archeology
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1975 Apr 5 |
Chiang Kai-shek (87), Chinese statesman and president of the Republic (1943-1950) and President of the Republic of China, Taiwan (1950-1975), died at age 87. Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mayling) moved to New York following her husband's death. In 1982 Sterling Seagrave authored "The Soong Dynasty." In 2009 Jay Taylor authored “The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China.” Links: China, Taiwan
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1975 Jul 1 |
Thailand and China signed a formal agreement on diplomatic relations. Links: China, Thailand
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1975 Jul 11 |
Archaeologists unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (Shihuangdi). [see 210BC] Villagers had uncovered the first of the figures in 1974. Links: China, Archeology
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1975 Aug 7 |
In China a dam collapse in Henan province killed tens of thousands of people. The event was covered up for many years. A typhoon from the South China Sea brought three successive days of enormous rain storms to the area of southern Henan Province. Altogether 62 dams failed in one night, including two major dams. As a result of this catastrophe 85,600 people died according to the official government figures but others place the toll at 230 thousand. Links: China, Disaster
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1975 |
In China Mou Qizhong co-authored the book "Whither China" that criticized the Cultural Revolution and earned him a four-year prison term. Links: China, Books
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1975 |
Aides of Chairman Mao ordered pieces of white porcelain dappled with pink plum and peach blossoms to gain his favor. They were made at the Ceramics Industry Research Institute in southern Jiangxi province. In 1986 there was an auction in Beijing that drew about $1 million for 87 of the pieces. Links: China, Ceramics
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1975 |
In China Yu Qiuli was appointed Vice-Minister of Metallurgy. Links: China
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1975 |
Chen Xilian (d.1999 at age 84) was named vice-premier of China. He resigned after 5 years to make way for economic reformers favored by Deng Xiaoping. Links: China
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1975 |
Jiang Hua (d.1999 at 93) was appointed president of China’s Supreme People's Court. Links: China
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1975 |
Hong Kong established China’s first reserve to protect migrating shore birds at Mai Poi. Links: China, Hong Kong, Birds
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1975 |
China’s First Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) ordered the army to crackdown on a Muslim village in Yunnan province. This resulted in some 1,600 deaths including 300 children. Links: China
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1976 Jan 8 |
Chou En-lai (78), Chinese premier (1949-1976), died in Beijing. Links: China
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1976 Feb 27 |
The final meeting between Mao tse Tung and Richard Nixon took place. Links: USA, China, NixonR
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1976 Apr 7 |
China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping and appointed Hua Kuo-feng (Guofeng) prime minister and first deputy chairman of the Communist Party. Links: China
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1976 Jul 28 |
In China a 7.8-8.2 earthquake in the northern city of Tangshan killed at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate. Links: China, Earthquake
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1976 Jul |
China completed the construction of a railway between Tanzania and Zambia. Links: China, Tanzania, Zambia
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1976 Sep 9 |
Mao Tse-tung (82), Chinese Communist party chairman (1949-76) died in Beijing. "Who controls a man’s ideas controls the man." In 1965 he launched the controversial Cultural Revolution, an often-brutal campaign to reform Chinese society. He was later held responsible for over 70 million deaths. Mao Zedong’s death triggered a 2-year power struggle. The Cultural Revolution's chief architects, Mao’s widow (Jiang Qing) and 3 others, the so-called Gang of Four, were jailed. Deng Xiaoping returned from disgrace and eventually seized power. In 2005 Jung Chang and Jon Halliday authored “Mao: The Unknown Story.” Links: China, Biography
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1976 Oct 6 |
The so-called "Gang of Four," Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, and 3 associates (Zhang Chunqiao (d.2005), Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen) were arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party. Links: China, Govm’t Scandal
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1976 Oct 12 |
It was announced in China that Hua Guo-feng (1921-2008) had been named to succeed the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of the Communist Party. He was effectively stripped of his powers in 1978 and formally lost the chairmanship in 1981. Links: China
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1976 |
India and China re-established diplomatic ties. PM Indira Gandhi chose K. R. Narayannan to serve as ambassador to Beijing. Links: China, India
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1976 |
In China the Triangle Group, a tire maker, was founded by the local Weihai government. In 2008 it was scheduled to become a publicly owned company. Links: China
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1976 |
In China Huang Hua (1913-2010), a former translator for Mao Zedong, began serving as foreign minister and continued to 1982. Huang oversaw the formation of diplomatic ties with Washington in 1979 and accompanied paramount leader Deng Xiaoping on his tour of the United States that year. Links: China
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1977 Jul 22 |
In China Deng Xiaoping was named vice-premier. Links: China
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1977 Jul 22 |
The Chinese painter, Pan Yu-liang (b.1895), died in Paris. The 1997 biographical film "The Painter" (La Peintre) was based on her biography by Shi Nan. Links: Artist, France, China, Biography
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1977 |
China at this time had some 300-odd museums, most of them little more than displays of Communist Party propaganda. By year 2000 the number had grown to over 2,000. Links: China, Museums
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1978 Jan 26 |
In China Einstein’s theory of relativity was officially reinstated. Links: China, Physics
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1978 Feb 16 |
China and Japan signed a $20 billion trade pact, which was the most important move since the 1972 resumption of diplomatic ties. Links: China, Japan
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1978 Feb |
After China’s Cultural Revolution ended, some books were gradually unbanned. A few novels by Balzac were sold openly in Beijing's Xinhua Book Stores. Links: China, Writer, Sociology
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1978 Jul 3 |
China cut off economic and technical aid to Vietnam. Links: China, Vietnam
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1978 Jul 7 |
China cut off all aid to Albania after a dispute and left it completely isolated. Links: Albania, China
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1978 Aug 12 |
China’s Deng Xiaoping and Japan normalized relations. Japan signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty with China in Beijing. Links: China, Japan
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1978 Oct 23 |
China and Japan exchanged treaty ratification documents in Tokyo, formally ending four decades of hostility. Links: China, Japan
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1978 Dec 15 |
President Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China, i.e. Communist China, on New Year's Day and sever official relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan). Links: USA, China, Taiwan, CarterJ
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1978 Dec 22 |
The Communist Party in China issued a communiqué following 2 meetings on the economy. Teng Hsiao-p’ing (Deng Xiaoping) led the Chinese people in a Great Leap Forward with a program of economic reform in a market oriented economy. Deng introduced the "household responsibility system" in a drought-parched region which allowed farmers to keep some of the benefits of their labors. Deng Xiaoping announced a new "open door" policy. Links: China, Economics
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An estimated 15,000 Chinese advisors were present in Cambodia during Pol Pot's rule. Links: China, Cambodia
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1978 |
The Karakoram Highway from Kashgar, China, to the edge of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, was completed. Links: China, Pakistan
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Deng Xiaoping emerged as China’s paramount leader. In early 1979 he shut down the Democracy Wall protest and imprisoned its leaders. His political formula was "one country, two systems." Yang Shangkun also regained power after 12 years in prison. Links: China
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In China Fang Yi (d.1997 at 81), a guerrilla leader of the Revolution under Mao, became a vice premier. He accompanied Deng on a tour of the US in 1979. Links: China
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In China the Time of the Democracy Wall movement began. For 4 winter months citizens in Beijing plastered a 200-meter wall with posters calling for freedom and democracy. Dissident Ren Wanding was jailed from 1979 to 1983 for having advocated multiparty democracy. In 1996 Wanding was released after seven years in prison for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Links: China
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences set up the River Dolphin Research Group in Wuhan. The baiji, a white river dolphin, was declared a "rare and precious aquatic animal" the following year. Links: China, Fish
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In China the 2000-year-old massive "bianzhong" bells were unearthed. Links: China
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1978 |
In China the tomb of Zeng Hou Yi (c400 BCE) was discovered. Artifacts were later exhibited in the Hubei Provincial Museum. Links: China, Museums
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Many Chinese "boat people" who had left Vietnam or been forcibly expelled died after drifting for weeks at sea. Links: China, Vietnam
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1978 |
China’s share of the global GDP was about 1.8%. In 2008 this grew to 6%. Links: China, Economics
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1978 |
The Beijing Film Academy reopened for the first time since it was closed during the Cultural Revolution. 4 years later 152 students graduated and were labeled as the “fifth generation” of film makers to emerge since the birth of Chinese cinema. Links: China, Film
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1979 Jan 1 |
China and the United States held celebrations in Beijing and Washington to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Deng Xiaoping arranged to visit the US. China standardized the spelling of people and place names using the Pinyin system. Peking thus became Beijing. Links: USA, China
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1979 Jan 7 |
The Vietnamese army captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. The People’s Party, a Hanoi installed Khmer Rouge faction, took power with Hun Sen as prime minister and Heng Samrin as president. This finally ended the mass genocide depicted in the 1984 film "The Killing Fields." The Khmer Rouge retreated into sanctuaries along the Thai border, set up bases and picked up support from Thailand and China. Links: China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Genocide
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1979 Jan 29 |
President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. Links: USA, China, CarterJ
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1979 Feb 1 |
The People's Republic of China opened its 1st two American Consulates in San Francisco and Houston. Links: China, SF, Texas
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1979 Feb 17 |
China invaded Vietnam and began a "pedagogical" war against Vietnam. China completed its withdrawal on March 19. In China’s border war with Vietnam deputy commander Zhang Wannian led a victorious division offensive in the battle of Liang Shan. Links: China, Vietnam
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1979 Mar 6 |
Chinese forces occupied Vietnam’s city of Lang Son. They claimed the gate to Hanoi was open, declared their punitive mission achieved, and withdrew quickly. Links: China, Vietnam
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1979 Mar 29 |
In China dissident Wei Jingsheng (b.1950) was first arrested in the crackdown on the Democracy Wall pro-democracy movement. In his most famous essay, The Fifth Modernization, Wei argued that modernization was impossible in China without necessary democratic reform. On December 13, 1995, Wei Jingsheng (47) was sentenced to 14 years in prison and charged with "conspiring to subvert the government." In 1997, after a total of 18 years in prison, Wei was taken from his cell and placed on a plane bound for the United States as a bargain result between then US President Clinton and the Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Links: China
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