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| 1950 |
| | | Chinese troops move into Tibet, meeting little resistance | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Incursions by UN troops far into North Korea give China the pretext to enter the war | |
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| 1951 |
| | | An agreement is signed by which a joint Tibetan-Chinese authority will nominally govern Tibet | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The cult of Chairman Mao is officially encouraged in China, partly through steady publication of his works | |
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| 1957 |
| | | With his Hundred Flowers Campaign ('Let a hundred flowers bloom'), Mao Zedong invites criticism and then locks up the critics | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Mao Zedong imposes on China a Great Leap Forward, an attempt at industrialization that results in economic chaos and widespread famine | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of lives | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Liu Shaoqi replaces Mao Zedong as China's president after the Great Leap Forward fiasco, but Mao remains Chairman | |
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| 1962 |
| | | China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries | |
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