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Chinese People In The Early 1900's

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In the early 1900’s, Japan started to invade and occupy more and more Chinese territory. This upset the Chinese so under Mao Zedong, they drove the Japanese out. During Mao’s rule, the lives of the Chinese people were full of suffering. In the mid 1970’s, after Mao Zedong’s death, Deng Xiaoping became the leader of China. Deng Xiaoping’s establishment of international relations and the Four Modernizations affected the Chinese people in a positive way by making China a more modern and industrialized place.
Beginning in the early 1900’s, Japan started to conquer and occupy land in China in order to gain more resources. This caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese but with the help of the Allies they managed to drive the Japanese out of China.
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