(redirected fromNationalist Chinese) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Kuomintang (ˈkwəʊˈmɪnˈtæŋ) n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1911 and dominant in China from 1928 until 1949 under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. Since then it...
Military studies Icarus in China| Western aviation and the Chinese Air Force1931-1941 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY David R. Dorondo LanceJohn AlexanderBetween 1931 and 1941, General Jiang Jieshi (commonly referred to as "Chiang Kai-Shek" in the West) and the Chinese Nationalists鈥攖he Guomindang...
Icarus in China: Western aviation and the Chinese Air Force, 1931-1941. Between 1931 and 1941, General Jiang Jieshi (commonly referred to as "Chiang Kai-Shek" in the West) and the Chinese Nationalists---the Guomindang---battled internal rivals, as well as Japanese military forces, for con...
People’s Liberation Army, Unified organization of China’s land, sea, and air forces. It is one of the largest military forces in the world. The People’s Liberation Army traces its roots to the 1927 Nanchang Uprising of the communists against the Nationalists. Initially called the Red ...
Chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world Nationalist China,...
After 1949 Zeng joined the Guomindang (Nationalist Party) on Taiwan and later represented the ROC on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, whereas Deng stayed in Mainland China and carried out a form of Christian feminist diplomacy for the PRC as leader of the Chinese YWCA. Both ...
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the CCP collaborated with Japanese war criminals in a concerted effort for the sole purpose of crippling Nationalist power, allowing millions of innocent civilians to face horrendously decibel torture, rape, and murder by the Japanese Army, most notably in the ...
The Eight Hundredtells the story of a group ofRepublican (Nationalist) Chinesesoldiers tasked withdefending Shanghai’s Sihang Warehousein 1937 during theSecond Sino-Japanese War(the Chinese theater of World War II). In both real life and the film, a little over four hundred soldiers (exaggerate...
Wang Ching-wei was an associate of the revolutionary Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen, rival of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) for control of the Nationalist government in the late 1920s and early ’30s, and finally head of the regime established in 1940 t
The Long March had decisively established Mao’s leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and had enabled the embattled communists to reach a base area beyond the direct control of the Nationalists. From their base at Yan’an, the communists grew in strength and eventually defeated the ...