ON 10 DECEMBER IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on December 10, 2018
220: Cao Pi becomes emperor succeeding Emperor Xian and founder of the Wei dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Pi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xian_of_Han http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Division/personsweiwendi.html
553: Birth of Houzhu, emperor of the Chen dynasty, who died in 604
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shubao
1941: Chinese army began to fight against the Japanese in Burma
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11433.html
1949: The People’s Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Nationalist-held big city. Chiang Kai-shek Leaves for Taipei.
1968: Death in jail of Tian Han (victim of the Cultural Revolution), playright and poet, author of the national anthem, born on March 12, 1898
http://thechinabeat.blogspot.fr/2008/07/from-lovers-to-volunteers-tian-han-and.html
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11405.html
1979: Kaohsiung Incident. Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed and organizers are arrested
http://www.taiwandc.org/hst-1979.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung_Incident
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11408.html
2006: In Hong Kong, for the first time, the democrats, with 114 delegates, can have a candidate among the 800 personalities who will elect the next Chief Executive
2008: In China, publication of the Charter 08, a democratic platform, with Liu Xiaobo as one of the leaders
http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/10/08/charter-08/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11955763
2010: The Nobel Committee has bestowed its Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” Beijing furious reaction
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/10/norway.nobel.prize/index.html
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2010/xiaobo/facts/
China ‘blocks’ Mongolia border after Dalai Lama visit
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/china-blocks-mongolia-border-dalai-lama-visit-161210060313417.html