In August 1968, factory workers overheard news of a mandatory meeting. Whispered rumors described shipments of a gift from the country's Communist leader, Chairman Mao Zedong. And sure enough, managers soon distributed a gift to every...

Mao Zedong: Great at rebelling against governments, not so great at leading them. Climbed to the top of the communist ladder during the Long March, and won the Chinese Civil War! ...But then the Great Leap Forward backfired and the...

How did the Communists Take over China? | History of China 1945-1955 Documentary 7/10

This video examines the nature of dictatorships, where a single leader holds unchecked power. It contrasts dictatorships with monarchies, traces their historical evolution, and discusses infamous dictators like Julius Caesar, Adolf...

Sun Yat-sen establishes the Republic of China, forcing the last emperor of the Ching Dynasty to abdicate; ending 2000 years of imperial rule. When Yat-sen dies, civil war ravages the nation, pitting Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists...

(January 1, 1912) Soon Yat-sen establishes the Republic of China, forcing the last emperor of the Xing Dynasty to abdicate; ending 2000 years of imperial rule. (1927) When Yat-sen dies, civil war ravages the nation, pitting Chang...

(January 1, 1912) Soon Yat-sen establishes the Republic of China, forcing the last emperor of the Xing Dynasty to abdicate; ending 2000 years of imperial rule. (1927) When Yat-sen dies, civil war ravages the nation, pitting Chang...

“The Communist Manifesto,” (1848) written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, marked the birth of communism. In their vision, communism is a classless society with no private property; where the means of productivity and burden of the...

This video covers the economics behind China (or, to be more precise, the People's Republic of China or PRC) under the rule of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China (CPC). On the one hand, China was coming after a humiliating...

This is the first video out of 3 about... you've guessed it, China :) More specifically, I've analyzed not just China's economy but also the historic/political dimension in one minute. The data I've used takes us back roughly 2,000...

Mao Zedong swimming in a river in 1966 was a big deal. Become a Video Lab member!='http://bit.ly/video-lab' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>member! In 1966, Mao Zedong, China’s communist leader and the founder of the People’s Republic...

China was once the wealthiest in the world and now it was struggling to feed itself, it was these kinds of conditions that gave rise to the political system that would go on to define china in the latter half of the twentieth...

Why was China divided before WW2? History of China 1918-1930 Documentary 4/10

Why was China so Weak before WW2? | History of China 1930-1937 Documentary 5/10

In this episode we examine the topic: Confucianism is Making a Comeback in China

By the 1960s, the world's two largest communist countries, the Soviet Union and China, were not getting along so well. Mao Zedong, the leader of China,and Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, both had different...

After the fall of the Qing dynasty China fell apart and both, forces loyal to Chiang Kais-shek's National Kuomintang Party and as Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China, fought to rule the country. This bloody struggle would ultimately...

The oppression of the Chinese people during the first half of the Century of Humiliation increased unrest in the country. More and more revolutionary groups formed and tried to destroy the ruling Qing dynasty. The Qing would finally fall...

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Gandhi gains power and leads India's independence movement. Part 4 of our timeline of the greatest revolutions in history--moments that shaped modern civilization.