AN Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China-china.org.cn

A translation of Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in Shanghai.

Eighth Route Army soldiers celebrating victory on the Great Wall.

Mao Zedong went to Chongqing to talk with the Kuomintang government.

Private handicraftsmen turned to the socialist path by way of cooperatives.

Workers of the Daqing Oilfield at work.

A village-level organization signing a contract with peasants.

British warships bombarding Chinese ships in the 1841 invasion. From the 1840s onward, various capitalist and imperialist powers forced open the door of China with their gunboats. Step-by-step, China was transformed from a feudal society into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society.