Although the Chinese Nationalist and Communist movements had pledged to unite against Japanese aggression in 1936, conflict between them actually grew during the war against Japan (1937–1945), setting the stage for a civil war. The approaches...

The Chinese Civil War (traditional Chinese: 國共内戰; simplified Chinese: 国共内战; pinyin: guógòng neìzhàn; literally "Nationalist-Communist Civil War"), which lasted from April 1927 to May 1950, was a civil war in China between the...

Two historians have discovered that 47 Chinese men served in the Civil War, many more than the one or two previously listed. The new research, announced last week at the National Archives by Thomas P. Lowry and Edward S. Milligan, adds another ethnic...

Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. By Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.00.) In this book, the author has made a breakthrough by bringing a new interpretation as to why the Chinese Communist Party...

Communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949 because they had enormous support from Chinese peasants (95 percent of the population), which the Communists use for a military advantage. The Communists were also better organized and stronger militarily.

Provides a history of China, focusing on the civil war power struggle between China's GMD nationalist party under Chiang Kai Shek and the CCP communist Party under Mao Ze Dong. Explores why the Communists ultimately won the civil war; considering CCP pros and GMD cons.

Events in the Chinese civil war of the 20th century and reasons why the Communists won.