In this time the only periods that can be called tranquil are the "golden decade" of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the early period after liberation from 1949- 1957, and the era of reform and opening to the outside world that began in 1978.
其間稱得上是太平時期的只有二○年代的「黃金十年」，一九四九到五七年的解放初期，以及一九七八年以來的改革開放。