Publication + visual history
WADE IN CHINA
Independent
and judgemental.
Culture. Power. History. Ethics.
And a better future.
Visual history
Communism
in China.
From the Manifesto to now. Moscow, the Party, the wars, the campaigns, and what they did to people.
165 events7 lanes17 sources weighed
Start here
- 1917The October RevolutionOutside China7 November 1917
- 1921First National Congress, ShanghaiParty decisionsJuly 1921
- 1934The Long MarchWar and armed forceOctober 1934
- 1949The People's Republic is proclaimedParty decisions1 October 1949
- 1958The Great Leap Forward adoptedParty decisionsMay 1958
- 1966The May Sixteenth NotificationParty decisions16 May 1966
- 1978The Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central CommitteeParty decisionsDecember 1978
- 1989The 1989 protests and the June Fourth crackdownConsequencesApril 1989
The evidence
Every claim
has a source.
Or it says unknown. Disputed numbers show every named position. No figure stands alone.
Sources are weighed by method. Politics is shown, never counted.