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  2. List of places depicted in the Mao Kun map - Wikipedia

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    The Mao Kun map is a set of navigation charts published in the Ming dynasty military treatise Wubei Zhi. [2] It depicts the geography of eastern China, southeast and southern Asia, Arabia, and eastern Africa. Along the way, it includes Chinese labels of 570 islands, towns, and other places.

  3. Mao Kun map - Wikipedia

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    First page of the map with part of the introduction. Mao Kun map, usually referred to in modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map (traditional Chinese: 鄭和航海圖; simplified Chinese: 郑和航海图; pinyin: Zhèng Hé hánghǎi tú), is a set of navigation charts published in the Ming dynasty military treatise Wubei Zhi. [1]

  4. Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

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    Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

  5. Cross-strait relations - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Bilateral relations between China and Taiwan Bilateral relations Cross–strait relations China Taiwan Cross-strait relations Traditional Chinese 兩岸關係 Simplified Chinese 两岸关系 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Liǎng'àn guānxì Gwoyeu Romatzyh Leang'ann ...

  6. History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)

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    China: A New History. 2nd ed. Harvard U. Press, (2006). 640 pp. excerpt pp 343–471. Fenby, Jonathan. The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850 to the Present (3rd ed. 2019) popular history. Garver, John W. China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic (2nd ed. 2018) Guillermaz ...

  7. Chinese Communist Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The founding of the Central People's Government of China was formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong on October 1, 1949, at 3:00 pm in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the new capital. The new national flag of the People's Republic of China (the Five-starred Red Flag) was officially unveiled and hoisted to a 21-gun salute .

  8. China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why?

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    China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia ...

  9. Long March - Wikipedia

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    But in a poem written by Mao in October 1935 at the end of the Long March, Mount Liupan, Mao states their distance as 20,000 li (10,000 kilometres or about 6,200 miles). [42] In 2003, two British researchers, Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, [ 32 ] retraced the route in 384 days, [ 26 ] [ 32 ] and in their 2006 book "The Long March" estimated the ...