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1927
 
   
Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China      
1927
 
   
Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region      
c. 1927
 
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The fossilized tooth of a human, half a million years old and known now as Peking Man, is discovered at a site near Beijing      
1928
 
     
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China        
1928
 
     
A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing        
1931
 
   
The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria      
1932
 
   
Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state      
1933
 
    
Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth')       
1934
 
   
To escape the Kuomintang forces, the Chinese Communist army begins the Long March from Jiangxi province to Shaanxi      
1935
 
    
Mao Zedong wins control over the Chinese Communists during the Long March