Republic China facts
While investigating facts about Republic China, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1995 a 6 year old Tibetan boy was named the eleventh Panchen Lama, detained by the People's Republic of China, and never seen again.
In the early days of the People's Republic of China, families of executed prisoners were charged a "Bullet Fee" when claiming their relatives corpse
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Republic China I managed to collect.
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The principal designer of the B-2 stealth bomber was convicted in 2011 of using classified information to assist the People's Republic of China. He was sentenced to 32 years and is at the supermax prison known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" ADX Florence.
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In 1995 authorities of the People's Republic of China abducted the 6 year old Panchen Lama of Tibet,Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. He has not been seen or heard from since.
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During the first 10 years of the UN, the Soviet Union used its veto 79 times. In the same period, the Republic of China used the veto once, France twice and the others not at all.
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The rightful heir to the North Korean ruling dynasty, Kim Jong-nam, has been living in exile in China since 2001 after traveling to Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which means "fat bear" in Mandarin, in an attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland
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The last emperor of china, Puyi, became emperor at 2 then, shortly after, china became a republic. Puyi like many other Chinese emperors stayed separated from the rest of China in the forbidden city. No one told Puyi he was no longer emperor until his mid teenage years.
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People's Republic of China is officially Atheist
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The People’s Republic of China abolished the five time zones system and established one single time zone in 1949.
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Once China was unified by China's first emperor the Beijing region became the capital. For many centuries Beijing's region changed emperors and names, until 1949 when the People's Republic of China was announced and Beijing's name became final and was named the new capital.
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The world's most populous country, China, is also the least religious, followed by Sweden and the Czech Republic.
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The economic zones in the East China Sea are disputed between South Korea, Japan, and People's Republic of China.
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In 1995 authorities of the People's Republic of China abducted the 6 year old Panchen Lama of Tibet, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. He has not been seen or heard from since.
For ten years, beginning in 1949, on the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China there were large military displays at Tiananmen Square.
The Vatican has no resident embassies located within its territory, they're all in Rome. Therefore, Italy's embassy to the Vatican is really in Italy and Taiwan's (Republic of China) embassy to the Vatican is in Italy while Italy doesn't officially recognize The Republic of China. - source
Confucianism was mainstream in China until the 1900s when radicals determined that it was a major obstacle to China's modernization. It was repressed in the People's Republic of China's Cultural Revolution. However there are still followers of Confucianism today.
The Yangtze River's source is Geladaindong Peak in the Tanggula Mountains in the Quinhai province in the People's Republic of China. This area is part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The Republic of China and the Empire of Japan fought the last battle ever fought at the Great Wall in 1938.
Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in 1949, making him the absolute leader of China.
Christopher Columbus never actually set foot in North America. His first expedition landed on in island in the Bahamas. He also mistook Cuba for China, and modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic for Japan. Also he was born in Italy and moved to Portugal in his 20's.
Mao Zedong, who is embalmed in his memorial hall in Tiananmen Square, founded the People's Republic of China on October 1st, 1949, in the square.
A graduate from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in international law and diplomacy in 1912, Wellington Koo was the top diplomat for the Republic of China. His lifespan of 97 years makes him the longest-lived person to ever have led China
Nanjing is still the official capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan), despite being part of the People's Republic of China since 1949.