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.

Chinese workers at a British tram company working under the supervision of a foreign foreman (right). The Hengfeng Textile New Bureau established by national capitalists (left). Following the emergence of capitalist industry in the mid-1800s, a Chinese proletariat appeared and began to expand. By the May 4th Movement in 1919, the number of industrial workers in China had reached two million.