A Recent History of China
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1839-1842: China outlaws OPIUM. Hong Kong secedes with help from the British. Opium becomes MORPHINE for surgery, a drug created by MERCK of Germany.
1856-1860: Second Opium War
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8 Nations take over China: United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, United States, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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Communists take China BACK!!!
"In December 1949, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan following its defeat by the communists." [source]
Mao Zedong was a member of the Kuomintang, 1925-1926 [source]
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