Chinese Revolutionary History

Burning Opium in the Opium War in 1840
A revolutionary movement broke out to resist the smuggling of large quantitiesof opium into China by the British imperialists. From June 3 to 25, 1839,more than1,185,000 kilograms of opium was destroyed. It showed the Chinese people's determination to struggle against imperialism and marked the beginning of their resistance.
The Jintian Village Uprising in Taiping Revolution
The Taiping Revolution was the biggest and longest revolutionary peasant uprisingin the Chinese history. Led by Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864), this great anti-imperialist, anti-feudal peasant movement first broke out in Jintian Village in Guangxi in 1851. The revolutionary flames soon spread to six provinces and the revolutionaries established their capital in Nanjing.
The Wuchang Uprising (1911 Revolution)
The year 1911 was the one in which the decisive battle against the Manchu Government was fought. Late on the evening of October 10, the revolutionary forces wrecked the cannon in front of the office building of the governor of both Hunan and Hubei provinces, pulled down the royal flag and broke through the gate of the governor's mansion. The first success of the revolution was at Wuhan, Hubei Province. The last feudal dynasty collapsed under the fierce attack of the revolutionary torrent on October 10, 1911.
May 4th Movement
An anti-imperialist patriotic movement broke out on May 4, 1919 in Beijing. It was the turning point of the Chinese democratic revolution. On that day, several thousand Beijing students held a rally in front of Tian'anmen. A parade followed in which participants held aloft banners inscribed 'No signature to the 'peace treaty'! " and distributed the leaflets "Uphold our sovereignty! Punish the traitors ! "