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▲{{quote box|Yuan Shikai [[Star Wars|became president, manipulated a rubberstamp assembly into giving him full powers, and then declared himself emperor]]. It didn't work out.}}
'''1912-1949'''
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'''The Second Sino-Japanese War'''
Has [[Second Sino-Japanese War|its own article.]] Also, it overlaps nicely with [[World War Two]]. Interestingly, the CCP and the GMD continued to [[We ARE Struggling Together!|fight during the war]], until they were forced to work together. The two sides forged a united front against Japan, and became part of the Allies.
'''The end of the Civil War'''
After [[WW 2]] was over, the CCP and the GMD turned on each other almost immediately. The GMD troops, backed by America, captured the CCP headquarters but found themselves dangerously overstretched. Because of their massive peasant support, the People's Liberation Army soon numbered as many as four million. The GMD, however, was down to 1.5 million soldiers. The GMD began pulling back from the cities as they lost almost every battle, and the CCP managed to take much of their war equipment. Shanghai was the last city to be abandoned. The beaten Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the island of Taiwan, taking China's gold reserves with him. The PLA entered Beijing in January 1949 and the People's Republic of China was proclaimed.
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* The latter parts of ''[[Towards the Republic]]'' deal, as the title of the series implies, with the troubled establishment of the Republic of China.
* The second half of ''[[Moment in Peking]]'' takes place between the 1911 revolution and the beginning of the war.
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* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor]]'' is set in China in 1946, after the end of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and before the [[Red China|Communist takeover]].
* ''[[Superpower Empire China 1912]]'' is an [[Alternate History]] work that looks at what might have happened if Yuan Shikai had died in 1912 instead of 1916.
* In ''[[Blood Alley]]'' [[John Wayne]] (as Captain Wilder) and [[Lauren Bacall]] (as medical missionary's daughter, Cathy Grainger) steal a riverboat and lead a party of refugees down the Yangtze River to seek shelter in Hong Kong during the Communist Revolution.
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* [[Armies Are Evil]]: Warlord armies were, as a rule, brutal and corrupt.
* [[Balkanize Me]]: During the Warlord Era, the collapse of the central government resulted in the warlords setting up their own petty states.
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* [[The Purge]]: Jiang Jieshi did it to the Communists when he figured they were becoming dangerous. He was right, actually; they were always planning to betray him, he just betrayed them first. Also, the Nationalists and Communists to themselves. Mao was not top dog by a long shot when he was borne by Sedan chair on the Long March, for instance.
* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: Used by Jiang all the time to get rid of or weaken troublesome elements within the army and party. Doing too well for yourself? Here, defend this town against the Japanese...
* [[The Triads and
* [[Well
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