1949-12-09 - 1949-12-15

Kunming uprising and Yunnan defection

Kunming and Yunnan1949-12-09 · Nationalist control in the southwest collapses by defection and pressure

Other events in this phase

Nationalist Collapse7
  1. Taiyuan captured
  2. Shanghai Campaign
  3. Lanzhou Campaign
  4. Xinjiang incorporation into the PRC camp
  5. Xinjiang brought under PRC control
  6. Lu Han’s Yunnan uprising
  7. Kunming uprising and Yunnan defectionCurrent record

Media

Kunming city viewVisual recordKunming city viewA Kunming city view used to locate the Yunnan power shift and southwestern Nationalist collapse.

Source Trail

Diplomatic HistoryOffice of the Historian · The Chinese Revolution of 1949Open sourceReferenceBritannica · Chinese Civil War, 1949Open source