Chinese Communist Revolution (1949)Link to Salem Press reference article.
During the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949, Chinese communist leader and revolutionary Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China (PRC). Prior to this, there had been widespread civil war between China's communist revolutionaries and the dominant Chinese nationalists. This civil war had persisted, on and off, since the 1920s. Though fighting continued for years after the establishment of Mao's government, the widespread civil war had ended.