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  Whampoa Military Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Army Officer Academy emblem includes its motto, which was first proclaimed by Sun Yat-sen at the Whampoa Academy's opening in 1924.
Liao Zhongkai (廖仲恺), the famous leftist of Kuomintang and Sun's treasure secretary was appointed as representative of KMT to the academy.
However, after Chiang Kai-shek's break with the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the Northern Expedition the academy was moved to the newly established capital in Nanjing after the defeat of the warlords in 1928.
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 Whampoa Military Academy - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The academy was founded on June 16, 1924 at Chengzhou Island offshore from the Whampoa dock in Guangzhou, thus earning its common name.
The Whampoa Academy initially had many instructors from the Soviet Union; those instructors left, however, after Chiang Kai-shek's break with the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the Northern Expedition.
The academy was moved to the newly established capital in Nanjing after the defeat of the warlords in 1928.
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 Lin Biao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A native of Hubei province, Lin joined the Socialist Youth League and matriculated at Whampoa Academy when he was 18.
Lin graduated Whampoa in 1925 and by 1927 was a colonel.
As commander of the 115th Division of the Communist 8th Route Army, Lin orchestrated the ambush at Pinghsingkuan in September 1937, which was one of the few battlefield successes for the Chinese in WWII.
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 Whampoa Military Academy - TheBestLinks.com - People's Republic of China, Communist, Chiang Kai-shek, Communist Party ...
The Whampoa Military Academy or Huangpu Military Academy (黃埔軍校, Pinyin huang2 pu3 jun1 xiao4) was a military academy in China founded on June 16, 1924 to train military commanders for the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang (KMT) in preparation of the Northern Expedition.
Whampoa Academy initially had many instructors from the Soviet Union; those instructors left, however, after Chiang Kai-shek's break with the Communist Party of China (CCP) in the late 1920s.
In 1950, after the Communist victory on mainland China and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the academy was relocated to Fengshan, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, where it remains today.
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 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Whampoa academy was established in 1924 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.
Chen yesterday spoke of the new spirit of Whampoa, saying the traditional Whampoa spirit of sacrifice, solidarity and responsibility should be combined with new notions of courage, trust and faith in a new era.
This year's anniversary of the academy was particularly high-profile, as China was also celebrating the anniversary and had invited veterans in Taiwan to attend celebrations in China.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/17/2003175376/print   (613 words)

  
 News & Views - China to Turn Site of KMT Military Academy into Tourist Spot (8/5/2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A famous military academy run by the Kuomintang regime in May of 1924 to become a tourist attraction featuring "military culture".
The academy also witnessed the first cooperation between the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China (CPC), with Chiang Kai-shek acting as academy president and late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai as director of the academy's political department.
The academy's old naval wharf by the Pearl River will also be put in use again, with out-of-service warships docked there on which visitors could gain "military experience".
www.chinahouston.org /news/2002805071445.html   (313 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Chiang Kai-shek
Soviet aid permitted Sun to establish a KMT military academy at Whampoa (near Guangzhou) in 1924.
These officers, sometimes called the Whampoa Clique, became the core of a new KMT army and served as Chiang Kai-shek's political base.
Although he was commander in chief of the armed forces, only those units under the central command (led mostly by Whampoa graduates) were completely loyal to him.
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 Powell's Books - The Last of the Whampoa Breed by Bangyuan. Qi
For decades the Spirit of Whampoa was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically.
The Last of the Whampoa Breed tells the stories of the exiles written by their descendants, many of whom have become Taiwan's most important authors.
The graduates of China's Whampoa Military Academy were known for their unrelenting prowess in defending China from the Japanese during World War II.
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 Military Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
There are three types of military academies: High school level institutions (up to age 19), university level institutions, and those only serving to prepare officer cadets for commissioning into the armed services of a state (such as RMA Sandhurst).
The term Military Academy commonly refers to all pre-collegiate, collegiate, and post-collegiate institutions.
Military academies can be either private or have government sponsorship from regional (state) or national government.
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 Whampoa Military Academy Alumni Association Calls for Earlier Reunification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Vice Chairman Li Yuanchang of the Association called on all former Whampoa cadets to follow the teaching of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, carry forward the Whampoa spirit of patriotism and revolution and together with their Chinese compatriots fight for closer cross-Strait relations and China's earlier reunification.
He said that Whampoa cadets spurn all foreign aggression and would always fight bravely for the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the motherland.
A forum was held Tuesday by the Alumni Association of Whampoa Military Academy to mark the 76 anniversary of its founding.
english1.peopledaily.com.cn /english/200006/15/eng20000615_43083.html   (303 words)

  
 Whampoa [Archive] - Chinese-forums.com
The academy moved to Nanjing and finally to Chengdu, the last Nationalist stronghold on the mainland to fall to the Communists.
Famous Communist alumni from Whampoa include Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai (commander of Chinese forces in the Korean War), and Chen Geng, the general who saved Chiang Kaishek’s life on the battlefield in 1925 during a campaign against the Guangdong warlord 陳炯明 (Chen Jiongming).
The academy did produce an elite group of KMT officers and soldiers called the Whampoa Clique.
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 Lin Piao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A native of Hupei/Hubei province, Lin matriculated at Whampoa Academy in his mid-teens.
While at Whampoa he became the protégé of both Chou En-lai and the Russian General Vasily Blyukher.
Lin graduated Whampoa in 1925 and by 1927 was a colonel in the National Revolutionary Army (KMT).
www.nwc.navy.mil /chinesecs/players/communists/linpiao.htm   (229 words)

  
 SPEECH AT THE HANGCHOW CONFERENCE
It wasn't the Whampoa Academy "foreigners" who defeated the "locals," but rather the "locals" who defeated the "foreigners." Comrade Lin Piao was enrolled at the Whampoa Academy for half a year.
The tenth plenum of the CC of the CPC was held during June 1962 in Peking.
It was located at Whampoa near Canton and was established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1924 after the reorganization of the Kuomintang with the help of the Chinese Communist Party and the Soviet Union.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/classics/mao/sw9/mswv9_03.html   (2741 words)

  
 What is San Shou?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In 1924, the Guomindang (Chinese Nationalist Party) established the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangdong (Canton) province, Southern China in order to train the party’s leadership and create a modern military force.
Having formed a strategic alliance with the Soviet Union in January 1923, the academy utilized Soviet methods of establishing party discipline, political indoctrination and training of military personnel.
The Whampoa military instructors studied the existing Chinese martial arts traditions and created San Shou.
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 Chiang Kai-Shek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Chiang Kai-shek was born near the city of Shanghai along the lower Yangtze/Yangzi River.
The early years at Whampoa allowed Chiang to cultivate a cadre of young officers loyal to him and by 1925 Chiang’s proto-army was scoring victories against local rivals in Kwangtung/Guangdong province.
After Sun Yat-sen’s death in 1925 Chiang was embroiled in a power struggle with left-leaning elements of the KMT over Sun’s legacy (See Wang Ching-wei).
www.nwc.navy.mil /chinesecs/players/kuomintang/chiangkaishek.htm   (365 words)

  
 National Revolutionary Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It was largely controlled by the Kuomintang (KMT), with the boundaries between the Kuomintang and the National Revolutionary Army sometimes becoming quite blurred.
The National Revolutionary Army was closely linked to the Whampoa Military Academy, which had also been established by the Kuomintang.
A large number of the Army's officers passed through Whampoa, and the first commandant, Chiang Kai-Shek, became commander-in-chief of the Army in 1925 before lauching the successful Northern Expedition.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/National-Revolutionary-Army.htm   (252 words)

  
 Lin Biao on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lin was trained at Whampoa Academy, and during the Northern Expedition he rose to company commander in the Kuomintang army.
After the Kuomintang-Communist split in 1927, he became one of Zhu De 's leading military aides.
His skill as a tactician earned him the command of a Red Army corps, and after the long march, he headed the Red Academy at Yan'an.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LinB1iao.asp   (471 words)

  
 Xinhua News Agency: Whampoa: Now popular place for learning Spartanism in modern era.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Xinhua News Agency: Whampoa: Now popular place for learning Spartanism in modern era.@ HighBeam Research
Whampoa: Now popular place for learning Spartanism in modern era.
The site of Whampoa Military Academy, once China's version of West Point Military Academy of the United States, has once again become a popular place for learning Spartanism in the modern era.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:118296079&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (163 words)

  
 Chinese History - Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) (www.chinaknowledge.org)
Chiang, like the father of the revolution, Sun Yat-sen 孫中山 of humble origin, studied at military academies in China and Japan where he entered Sun Yat-sens revolutionary alliance, the Tongmenghui 同盟會 in 1908.
After several months that Chiang passed as head of a study commission in Moscow he was installed as director of the Huangpu Military Academy (in the West known as Whampoa; Huangpu junxiao 黃埔軍校) where military and political caders of the GMD and the allied Communist Party were trained.
In the same year Liao Zhongkai 廗仲愷, also a leader of the Whampoa Academy, was murdered, and the only serious competitor among the party ranks was Wang Jingwei 汪精衛 who founded a GMT government in Wuhan 武漢 after the first phase of the Northern Expedition (Beifa 北伐) in 1926.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Rep/jiangjieshi.html   (905 words)

  
 Long March Leaders - Marshal Lin Biao
Lin was born October 7, 1907, in a Lin Family village in Hubei Province, where his father ran a small factory that was ruined by a Warlord's extortion.
Graduating from Whampoa Military Academy in 1926, he joined the Guomintang (the Nationalist People's party), in 1924, and the Chinese Communist party in 1925.
In 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek, generalissimo of the Kuomintang army, began a purge of Communist party members, Lin Biao defected with his regiment to the guerrilla headquarters of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung).
www.paulnoll.com /China/Long-March/Long-March-Lin-Biao.html   (548 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Chen the comments yesterday while presiding over an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Whampoa Military Academy (黃埔軍校) -- the predecessor of the Chinese Military Academy in Fengshan, Kaohsiung.
Chen's appeared to have been made in response to comments from former premier and minister of defense Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), who, while addressing a rally of retired Whampoa generals on Sunday, said that Chen's plan to reform the Constitution threatens to "harms territorial integrity" between Taiwan and China.
Chen spoke of the new spirit of Whampoa, saying the traditional Whampoa spirit of sacrifice, solidarity and responsibility should be combined with new notions of courage, trust and faith in a new era.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/17/2003175376/wiki   (896 words)

  
 Humanrights
BEIJING -- To firmly stop the "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and to safeguard cross-Straits peace and stability are the most urgent tasks currently for mainland and Taiwan compatriots.
Founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, forerunner of China's democratic revolution and founder of the Kuomintang, the Whampoa Military Academy trained thousands of senior soldiers in its short history, many of whom later became noted generals and marshals.
The union of Whampoa schoolmates is an important force to push forward the national reunification, Jia said, expressing hope that they will make more contributions to the solution of the Taiwan issue and construction of the Xiaokang (relatively well-off) society.
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 Whampoa Military Academy biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Nationalist Party of China Army Officer Academy (中國國民黨陸軍軍官學校), commonly known as the Whampoa Military Academy (黃埔軍校, pinyin huáng pŭ jūn xiào), was a military academy in China that produced many prestigious commanders who fought in the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
During the inaugural ceremonies, Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech that was later to become of the national anthem of the Republic of China.
See also: History of the Republic of China
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 Zhou Enlai
Communist Party members and Socialist Youth League members were sent to the academy to do political work and other work or to be students.
Zhou Enlai served as director of the political department of the academy
On March 2, 1962, Zhou Enlai delivered a report “On Intellectuals”, in which he reaffirmed that the overwhelming majority of intellectuals in the country belonged to the working class.
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 Whampoa Military Academy - China-related Topics WE-WH - China-Related Topics
The Nationalist Party of China Army Officer Academy (中國國民黨陸軍軍官學校), commonly known as the Whampoa Military Academy (黃埔軍校, pinyin hu?ng pŭ jūn xi?o), was a military academy in China that produced many prestigious commanders who fought in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
During the inaugural ceremonies, Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech that was later to become of the lyrics of the National Anthem of the Republic of China
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 Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--Zuo Quan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He pursued a military carreer and entered the GMD-sponsored Whampoa Academy in 1924.
After two years, he transferred to the Red Army Academy (Frunze Military Academy), where he met Liu Bocheng.
His most important military post was as chief-of-staff to Lin Biao, which he held from 1932 up to and during the Long March.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Right-Hand Man -- Jul. 14, 1958   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Through the years, death, division and defection removed almost all the old Chinese Nationalist figures who fought at the side of President Chiang Kaishek.
But after 35 years, one of the ablest of the young officers who taught at Chiang's famous Whampoa Military Academy in the '20s still serves his chief with conspicuous devotion.
Last week, to instill discipline and order in a government that has lost much authority through parliamentary squabbling and faltering leadership, the President accepted the resignation of respected but ailing Banker-Premier O. Yui and named as Premier his...
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