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Archive - April 20th, 1949 : 75 years since the start of the Yangtze River Crossing campaign, military operation of the Chinese Civil War, led by the Communist forces to seize Nanjing. 

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The Yangtze River Crossing campaign was a military campaign launched by the People's Liberation Army (Communist Forces) to cross the Yangtze River and capture Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government of the Kuomintang, in the final stage of the Chinese Civil War. The campaign began at night on 20 April, and lasted until 2 June 1949, concluding after the fall of Nanjing and Shanghai to the Communist forces. 

New China Pictures 1949

CHINA. The Chinese Liberation Army entering Nanjing after the... 

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CHINA. The 2nd Field Army marched toward Great Southwest China... 

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CHINA. Nankin. Mid-April 1949. Last session of the nationalist... 
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CHINA. Nanjing citizens welcoming the 2nd Field Army as they... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Nationalist soldiers looking... 
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CHINA. Nankin. 26 April 1949. Hand-painted posters by students... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. 7 a.m. A column of soldiers... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. One of the last war lords,... 

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CHINA. Siyuan near Beijing. MAO TSE TUNG riding in a jeep to... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Marshal YEN SI CHAN. He is... 

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CHINA. Nankin. April 1949. Mao's portrait, near a crowd of students... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. As the first soldiers of... 

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CHINA. Nankin. Mid-April 1949. People are waiting to board for... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Refugees of the civil war.... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Refugees of the civil war.... 
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CHINA. Nankin. Mid-April 1949. On the Yangtze, small boats, sampans... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Peasants rest at the foot... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949.
"Le défilé interminable des... 
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CHINA. Nankin. 22 April 1949. At Nankin Airport, members of the... 
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CHINA. Nankin. 22 April 1949. In Nankin, defeat of the Kuomintang.... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. With their few belongings... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Refugees. 

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CHINA. Nanking. December 1948-January 1949. Two teenage coiffeurs... 
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CHINA. Nankin. 23 April 1949. In Nankin, looters take away furnitures,... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Soldiers of the People's... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Students post their drawings... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. A canal that joins the Yangtse... 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. 

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CHINA. Nankin. May 1949. On the right, the protective wall of... 
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CHINA. Nankin. May 1949. The soldiers of the People's Army are... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Soldiers of the People's... 
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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. 1949. 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. 1949. 

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Université de Nankin. 

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CHINA. Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949. Soldiers of the People's... 
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