1949-04-15 - 1949-05-20

Shanghai refugee movement

ShanghaiCivilian, capital, and official flight before Shanghai’s fall showed how front movement shook society.

Other events in this phase

Shanghai Front2

Media

Shanghai residents retreating, 1949

Visual recordShanghai residents retreating, 1949Photograph of civilians leaving Shanghai before the city’s fall.

Source Trail

ReferenceBritannica · Nationalist collapse and PRC establishmentOpen source Diplomatic HistoryOffice of the Historian · Chinese Revolution of 1949Open source ArchiveThe National Archives · The Chinese Civil WarOpen source