<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Chinese Civil War 國 共 內戰 国共 内战 (Kuomintang - Communist Civil War) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Part of Cross-Strait conflict and Cold War (from 1947) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Clockwise from the top: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping, Muslim soldiers of the NRA, Mao Zedong in the 1930s, Chiang Kai - shek inspecting soldiers, CCP general Su Yu investigating the troops shortly before the Menglianggu Campaign </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 1 August 1927--22 December 1936 (9 years, 4 months and 3 weeks) </Li> <Li> 31 March 1946--7 August 1950 (4 years, 4 months and 1 week) </Li> </Ul> (Kuomintang Islamic insurgency against the People's Republic of China's rule continued in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Yunnan until 1958) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> China </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> Chinese Communist Party victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Major combat ended, but no armistice or peace treaty signed </Li> <Li> Small pockets of insurgency continued through the 1960s </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> <Li> Communist Party of China takeover of mainland China and Hainan </Li> <Li> People's Republic of China established in mainland China </Li> <Li> Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan </Li> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1927--36 <Ul> <Li> Republic of China <Ul> <Li> Kuomintang </Li> <Li> National Revolutionary Army </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> Supported by: <Ul> <Li> / Germany </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> 1927--36 <Ul> <Li> Communist Party <Ul> <Li> Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army </Li> <Li> Chinese Soviet Republic (1931--37) <Ul> <Li> Jiangxi--Fujian Soviet (1931--34) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> Fujian People's Government (1933--34) Supported by: <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union </Li> <Li> Communist International </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1947--49 <Ul> <Li> Republic of China <Ul> <Li> Kuomintang </Li> <Li> Republic of China Armed Forces </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> Supported by: <Ul> <Li> United States </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> 1946--49 <Ul> <Li> Communist Party <Ul> <Li> Pre-PLA troops and militia </Li> <Li> People's Liberation Army </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> East Turkestan Republic (1944--46) <Ul> <Li> Ili National Army </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> Supported by: <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1949--61 <Ul> <Li> Republic of China <Ul> <Li> Republic of China Armed Forces </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Nationalist loyalist guerrillas, militias and regular troops left in Mainland China and Burma </Li> </Ul> Supported by: <Ul> <Li> United States </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> 1949--61 <Ul> <Li> People's Republic of China <Ul> <Li> People's Liberation Army </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> Supported by: <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Chiang Kai - shek (show) <Ul> <Li> Bai Chongxi </Li> <Li> Chen Cheng </Li> <Li> Li Zongren </Li> <Li> Yan Xishan </Li> <Li> He Yingqin </Li> <Li> Hu Zongnan </Li> <Li> Gu Zhutong </Li> <Li> Wei Lihuang </Li> <Li> Du Yuming </Li> <Li> Sun Li - jen </Li> <Li> Fu Zuoyi </Li> <Li> Liu Zhi </Li> <Li> Xue Yue </Li> <Li> Wang Yaowu </Li> <Li> Tang Enbo </Li> <Li> Huang Baitao † </Li> <Li> Zhang Lingfu † </Li> <Li> Zhang Xueliang </Li> <Li> Feng Yuxiang (Until 1930) </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Mao Zedong (show) <Ul> <Li> Zhu De </Li> <Li> Peng Dehuai </Li> <Li> Zhou Enlai </Li> <Li> Lin Biao </Li> <Li> Liu Bocheng </Li> <Li> He Long </Li> <Li> Chen Yi </Li> <Li> Luo Ronghuan </Li> <Li> Xu Xiangqian </Li> <Li> Nie Rongzhen </Li> <Li> Ye Jianying </Li> <Li> Deng Xiaoping </Li> <Li> Su Yu </Li> <Li> Chen Geng </Li> <Li> Wang Jiaxiang </Li> <Li> Ye Ting † </Li> <Li> Bo Gu † </Li> <Li> Li De </Li> <Li> Zhang Guotao (Until 1936) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 4,300,000 (June 1946) </Li> <Li> 3,650,000 (June 1948) </Li> <Li> 1,490,000 (June 1949) </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Li> 1,200,000 (July 1945) </Li> <Li> 2,800,000 (June 1948) </Li> <Li> 4,000,000 (June 1949) </Li> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> c. 1.5 million (1948--49) </Td> <Td> c. 250,000 (1948--49) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> 1945--49: c. 6 million (including civilians) </Li> <Li> 1928--37: c. 7 million (including civilians) </Li> <Li> 1945--49: c. 2.5 million (including civilians) </Li> </Ul> c. 8 million casualties total </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Chinese Civil War 國 共 內戰 国共 内战 (Kuomintang - Communist Civil War) </Th> </Tr>

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