Pictures From a Revolution: Chinaâs Communists Mark a Centennial
The improbable rise of a superpower that was born in the rubble of dynasty and fears it may yet meet the same fate.
Mao Zedong posters at a celebration of the Communist revolution in 1949.Credit.Associated Press
Published June 30, 2021Updated July 1, 2021, 2:43 a.m. ET
In the summer of 1921, there was nothing inevitable about the Communist Party of China, even its survival. Especially its survival.
The country, then the Republic of China, was still struggling with civil strife and crushing poverty a decade after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911 ended thousands of years of imperial rule.
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