Lane 5 of 7
Its mark
17 events
后果
Consequences.
后果
What it holds
What happened to people: famine, persecution, displacement, imprisonment, execution, disaster. Holds both the catastrophe and death categories you named.
What it refuses
Never a running total, and never a figure without its argument attached in the estimates scene.
By decade
17 EVENTS · TAP A DECADE'40'50'60'70'80'90'00'10'20'30'40'50'60'70'80'90'00'10'20
The events 事件17
Oldest first. Every row opens its event, with its sources on its own page.
- December 1930The Futian Incidentdocumented
- December 1937The Nanjing Massacredocumented
- June 1938The Yellow River dykes breacheddocumented
- 1942The Henan faminedocumented
- 1950Land reform killingscontested
- 1959The great faminedocumented
- 1966Persecution, struggle sessions and deathsdocumented
- 1967Factional fighting and administrative collapse in many provincessupported
- August 1975The Banqiao dam failuredocumented
- 5 April 1976The Tiananmen incidentdocumented
- 28 July 1976The Tangshan earthquakedocumented
- April 1989The 1989 protests and the June Fourth crackdowndocumented
- 12 May 2008The Sichuan earthquakedocumented
- 2019The Hong Kong protestsdocumented
- January 2020COVID-19 and the Wuhan lockdowndocumented
- November 2022The white paper protests and the end of zero-COVIDdocumented
- 9 February 2026Jimmy Lai sentenced to twenty yearssupported