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  Kuomintang - MSN Encarta
Kuomintang (Chinese, Nationalist Party), political party of China organized after the Revolution of 1911, by which the Qing (Manchu) dynasty was overthrown and a republican government was established in China.
By late 1928 this campaign had largely succeeded; the Kuomintang then began a period of “political tutelage,” during which the party was to run the government while educating the people about their political rights.
The Kuomintang and remnants of its armies withdrew in the summer of 1949 to the island of Taiwan.
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 Kuomintang
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Kuomintang focused on transforming itself from a party of a single-party system to one of many in a multi-party democracy, and for "Taiwanizing" itself.
The leader of the Kuomintang during the 1990s was Lee Teng-Hui who angered the People's Republic of China and a significant fraction of voters on Taiwan with his advocacy of localization, which many associated with Taiwan independence.
The Kuomintang faced a split in 1994 which led to the formation of the New Party, this party was effectively destroyed in the legislative elections of 2001.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ku/Kuomindang.html   (720 words)

  
 Kuomintang. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The Kuomintang government at Nanjing received diplomatic recognition in 1928 and began the period of tutelage.
After several Kuomintang military campaigns, the Communists were forced (1934–35) to withdraw from their bases in S and central China and establish new strongholds in the northwest.
The Kuomintang continued to war against the Communists, ignoring the growing Japanese threat until N China was invaded by the Japanese in 1937.
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 Kuomintang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kuomintang was originally founded in Guangdong Province on August 25, 1912 from a collection of several revolutionary groups that had successfully overthrown the Qing Dynasty in the Xinhai Revolution, including the Revolutionary Alliance, as a moderate democratic socialist party.
When Kuomintang forces took Beijing, as the city was the de jure internationally recognized capital, though previously controlled by the feuding warlords, this event allowed the Kuomintang to receive widespread diplomatic recognition in the same year.
Chiang Ching-kuo, was the son of Chiang Kai-shek and Leader of the Kuomintang between 19751988.
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 Wikinfo | Kuomintang
The Kuomintang or Nationalist Party of China (KMT; 中國國民黨; Pinyin: Gúomíndăng, literally the National People's Party), is the party is currently active in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Founded in Guangdong Province on August 25 1912 by Sung Chiao-jen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the KMT stems from an anti-monarchy league, the Tongmenghui, as a democratic and moderate socialist party.
The leader of the Kuomintang during the 1990s was Lee Teng-Hui, who angered the People's Republic of China and a significant number of voters on Taiwan with his advocacy of localization, which many associated with Taiwan independence.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kuomintang   (933 words)

  
 Kuomintang
In this way, new blood was infused into the ranks of the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen became the leader of a revitalized revolutionary movement.
Shortly afterward the 'Left' Kuomintang at Wuhan annulled its agreement with the Communists and 'expelled' them from the Kuomintang and from a Government which quickly ceased to exist.
In reply, the central committee of the Kuomintang at Wuhan took away his leading positions in the party, government and army in an attempt to prevent him from seizing all power.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /CHINAkuomintang.htm   (1559 words)

  
 Discovering China: Movers & Shakers
The Kuomintang aimed at preparing the modern army to integrateunite China and overthrow the warlords.
The Kuomintang produced the overthrow of imperialism, the overthrow of the warlords, and the corruption of officers as the mainframe of his inner policy.
In the end, the Kuomintang was not able to accomplish that, and corruption among the officers increased greatly within the party.
library.thinkquest.org /26469/movers-and-shakers/chiang.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0329   (1014 words)

  
 The Ultimate Kuomintang Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party of China (; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang) is a conservative political party currently active in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan.
Lee Teng-Hui, the ROC President and the leader of the Kuomintang during the 1990s, angered the People's Republic of China and a significant number of voters on Taiwan with his advocacy of "special state-to-state relations" with the PRC, which many associated with Taiwan independence.
The Kuomintang faced a split in 1994 that led to the formation of the Chinese New Party, which fell apart in the legislative elections of 2001.
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 Kuomintang - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Some party members stayed in Mainland and broke away from the main Kuomintang to found the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, which still currrently exists as one of the eight minor registered parties in the People's Republic of China.
The KMT headquarters in Taipei, an imposing structure that was built in 1995 and directly faces the Presidential Building, was seen as a symbol of the party's wealth and dominance.
Chiang, arrived in mainland China, marking the first official visit by the KMT to the mainland since it was defeated by communist forces in 1949 (although KMT members include Chiang had made individual visits in the past).
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/KMT   (3189 words)

  
 Li Fu-jen: Kuomintang Faces Doom (1949)
The Kuomintang clique and the nervous bourgeoisie view the Generalissimo in a dual role - as the source of all their troubles and at the some time their only possible sheet-anchor in the angry storm now swirling around them.
Section E: All families of Kuomintang military officers and soldiers, government officials and personnel, party members and other enemy personnel, whose homes are in rural areas, shall be given land and properties equivalent to that of the peasant.
To speed the end it is not inconceivable that the Stalinists might take the risk of summoning the workers to action, although their first move would he an attempt to behead the most conscious and revolutionary elements, as recent events have so grimly demonstrated.
www.marxists.org /archive/glass/1949/02/kmtdoom.htm   (5423 words)

  
 Intrastate Disputes - Asia/Pacific Region
Kuomintang troops captured Wuchang on October 10, 1926, Nan-chang on November 9, 1926, Nanking on March 24, 1927, and Shanghai on March 22, 1927.
Kuomintang troops and warlord troops clashed in 1929 and 1930.
The Kuomintang government withdrew to the island of Formosa (Taiwan) on December 7, 1949, and proclaimed the Republic of China on Taiwan on December 8, 1949.
faculty.uca.edu /~markm/tpi_narratives_asia.htm   (17750 words)

  
 Kuomintang - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
KUOMINTANG [Kuomintang] [Chin.,=national people's party] (KMT), Chinese and Taiwanese political party.
After several Kuomintang military campaigns, the Communists were forced (1934-35) to withdraw from their bases in S and central China and establish new strongholds in the northwest.
Students post their drawings that were done during the last days of the Kuomintang.
encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kuominta.asp   (719 words)

  
 Kuomintang - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Kuomintang, also Guomindang, (Chinese, “Nationalist People's Party”), political party of China organized during the Revolution of 1911, by which the...
China : History : The Republic of China : The Kuomintang and the Rise of the Communist Party
A period of scrutiny and reappraisal followed, from which two clear objectives emerged: to rid China of imperialism and to re-establish national...
au.encarta.msn.com /Kuomintang.html   (142 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Taiwan's Main Opposition Parties Announce Merger as Island Prepares President Chen's ...
Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan made the announcement before cheering supporters, saying the plan passed his party's central committee unanimously.
Kuomintang spokesman Justin Chou says the planned merger with the PFP will provide a stronger, more organized opposition in time for December's legislative elections.
He says even those PFP members most skeptical of the Kuomintang would not be willing to continue their political careers as independents - losing the powerful organizational advantages of party membership.
english.epochtimes.com /news/4-5-19/21528.html   (402 words)

  
 Chapter Forty-Three, THE CHINESE REVOLUTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Kuomintang leaders proposed State capitalism, not because they were socialistic, but simply because the grand projects which they contemplated for the modernization of the country called for such an outlay of capital as could be raised or controlled only by the State.
The Kuomintang was officially recognized as a party sympathetic to the Communist International; its delegates sat at the Seventh Plenary Session of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, in the autumn of 1926.
Wang Ching-wei, member of the Left Kuomintang, who wanted both sides to remain temporarily within the Kuomintang, now tried to be peacemaker and urged that disputes concerning the compatibility of the ultimate aims of the nationalists and the communists could safely be postponed until the attainment of their more immediate objects.
www.weisbord.org /conquest43.htm   (11705 words)

  
 East Asian Studies Documents: Chiang, "China's Destiny"
Adult citizens must join the Kuomintang and youthful citizens must join the Youth Corps-only then will the happiness of the entire nation be safeguarded, the interest of the state protected, and permanent security for the nation and the state be assured.
In summary, the Kuomintang and the San Min Chu I Youth Corps are the organizations to solidify the state and the nation into one body-a fact that is shown by history and does not require further explanation.
But there is another point that ought to be repeated to our citizens, namely that the Kuomintang is the principal organization for the building of the state, to be shared and enjoyed by the citizens of the entire country.
www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/restricted/destiny.htm   (619 words)

  
 Free Essay IB: Chinese Communist Party Victory in Chinese Civil War
The insurrection was forcefully vanquished by the Kuomintang.
From a political perspective, the Kuomintang’s goal was, in theory, to follow the Sun Yat Sen’s vision of a united democratic and constitutional China.
It may be argued that the Kuomintang did not carry out agricultural reforms in fear of losing the support of the landlord class in China who still controlled the majority of the farming lands of China.
www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25745   (4328 words)

  
 BBC News | Special Reports | China's Communist Revolution
The original Kuomintang nationalists called for parliamentary democracy and moderate socialism as imperial rule waned in the first years of the century.
Initially in coalition with the Communists, Kuomintang forces established government in Nanjing in 1928.
Busy with civil war and the threat from Japan, the Kuomintang failed to remove such threats from the peasant population.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/guomindang.htm   (131 words)

  
 The Election in Taiwan: A Forum, UCLA International Institute
Traveling from north (the center of Kuomintang support) to south (the stronghold of the DPP), they interviewed individuals ranging from political workers and stalwarts in both of the parties, mayors and other government officials, and participants in political rallies and demonstrations, to the proverbial man in the street.
Tong stated that as one might expect, polls sponsored by the Kuomintang predicted a victory for the Kuomintang-People First Party coalition (which is described in Taiwan as the pan-blue group), while those sponsored by the DPP predicted a DPP (or pan-green) victory.
After 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and remnants of the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan from the mainland, they established a military dictatorship that "violently suppressed all manifestations of dissent" and made the 1.5 million mainlanders who accompanied Chiang into a privileged group.
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