Rules of the Game | Historical Context
People’s Republic of China
On January 21, 1949, China’s civil war— between Communists and Chinese nationalists— came to an end when Communist forces, led by Mao Zedong, defeated China’s Nationalist government, which had stopped receiving aid from the United States. The Chinese president, Chiang Kai-Shek, resigned, and shortly thereafter, Mao’s forces took over Beijing. During the next several months, those peasants who didn’t support Communism—like Waverly’s mother and the other mothers in The Joy Luck Club, fled mainland China for American soil,...
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