Guangzhou in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 7 people and 16 moments here, from 1918 to 1938. The most recorded lives are Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh.

Chiang Kai-shek
from 1918 to 1922
2 moments here
Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…
Ho Chi Minh
from 1924 to 1926
3 moments here
Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Lu Xun
in 1927
1 moment here
Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…
Mao Zedong
from 1924 to 1926
3 moments here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Sun Yat-sen
from 1920 to 1924
4 moments here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1938
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Zhou Enlai
from 1924 to 1925
2 moments here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…