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Events relating to china
A republic of China is proclaimed, with Sun Yatsen as its provisional president
The abdication of the child emperor Puyi brings to an end the Qing dynasty
Tibet declares its independence after the fall of the Qing dynasty and the end of imperial China
Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte
The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege
A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda
Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai
20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems
Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China
Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region
The fossilized tooth of a human, half a million years old and known now as Peking Man, is discovered at a site near Beijing
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China
A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing
The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria
Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state
Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth')
To escape the Kuomintang forces, the Chinese Communist army begins the Long March from Jiangxi province to Shaanxi
Mao Zedong wins control over the Chinese Communists during the Long March
The survivors of the Long March reach safety in Shaanxi province in northwest China
The Japanese use an incident at the Marco Polo Bridge, near Beijing, as the pretext for an attack on China
Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan
The Japanese capture the Chinese capital, Nanjing, and massacre at least 300,000 inhabitants within a few weeks
Hong Kong surrenders to an invading Japanese force
Joseph Stilwell is appointed to head the US military mission to Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
