1949 AD
Founding of the PRC
Religion · Chinese traditions · Religion and the state
The founding of the People’s Republic introduced a new state framework for religious institutions, associations and heritage in mainland China. Taiwan, Hong Kong and diaspora communities followed different trajectories.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1949
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- Horst J. Helle — China: Promise or Threat? (2017), pp. 53–55 (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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