Beijing in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 7 people and 9 moments here, from 1919 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Sun Yat-sen, Rabindranath Tagore and Mao Zedong.

Sun Yat-sen
from 1924 to 1925
3 moments here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1924
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Mao Zedong
in 1919
1 moment here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Jawaharlal Nehru
in 1939
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Bertrand Russell
in 1921
1 moment here
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…
Huang Xianfan
in 1926
1 moment here
Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…
Chiang Kai-shek
in 1928
1 moment here
Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…