Kuomintang

English Alternative forms sense 1 en KMT abbreviation en Guomindang en Komintang en Kuomingtang misspelling Etymology 1912, from the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 國民黨, Wade–Giles: Kuo²-min²-tang³.en 2000 Wilkinson Endymion Endymion Wilkinson Chinese History: A New Manual https://archive.org/details/chinesehistoryma0000wilk/ Rev. & enl. Harvard University Press 0-674-00249-0 99-056876 924956937 xix–xx https://archive.org/details/chinesehistoryma0000wilk/page/n21/ Some of the most familiar names in modern Chinese history are best known in English and other languagesby their Wade Giles romanizations, for example,KMT (short form of Wade-Giles transcription of Kuomintang, i.e., Guomindang zh 國民黨, referred to as GMD). Pronunciation en /kwəʊmɪnˈtæŋ/ UK, en /kwoʊmɪnˈtæŋ/ US, or like en Guomindang kwō′mĭntăng′, or like en Guomindang, gwô′mĭn′däng′ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kuomintang.wav Southern England en Kuo min tang Proper noun 1 A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan). en Republican<qq:modern Chinese history, pre-1949> en September 7, 1912 The Passing of the Tungmenghui North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1912.09.07/ Shanghai CIV 2352 311405954 686 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1912.09.07/page/686/ 3 It is generally believed that the creation of the Kuomintang will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties. The Kuomintang holds itself out as the democratic party, and its support of the President will be tempered by the path his future actions take. en https://archive.org/details/chinamissionyear07unknuoft/ 1916 F. L. Pratt CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1915 China Mission Year Book 1916 Shanghai w:Christian Literature Society for China 24 https://archive.org/details/chinamissionyear07unknuoft/page/24/ The trend of events from the founding of the Republic to the unseating of the Kuomintang members of the National Assembly in November, 1913, however, confirmed the belief held in many quarters that republicanism was not a suitable system of government for the Chinese in their present stage of political development. en 1968 Daniel George Edward Hall D. G. E. Hall Burma w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://books.google.com/books?id=rt5MAQAAIAAJ 4 68-10064 1036882 442 2 U Nu's government was Socialist with a program of nationalization. But it had to fight for survival against almost universal disorder complicated by a Communist rebellion, a Karen rising, which was far more serious, and, in 1950, the arrival from Yünnan of General Li Mi's Kuomintang division after its rout by the Chinese Communists. en 1977 w:John Le Carré The Honourable Schoolboy 238 Folio Society 2010 He drew lists of Party cadre members of both before and after forty-nine, and pored over the scant details of those entrusted with the takeover of big enterprises where technological know-how was required: in particular the Kiangnan shipyard, a massive affair from which the Kuomintang elements had repeatedly to be purged. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-12-04_24_48/ December 4, 1983 6.7 Million Voters Select 71 Legislators Free China Weekly XXIV 48 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-12-04_24_48/ The Kuomintang Party, after capturing 62 of the 71 seats in the Dec. 3 legislative elections, has retained control of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, the bastion of recovery, that it has held for the past 30 years. en https://archive.org/details/reencountersinch00isaa/ 1985 Re-encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule w:Harold R. Isaacs w:M. E. Sharpe 0-87332-289-4 6 https://archive.org/details/reencountersinch00isaa/page/6 By 1927, these gangs had come to play a cardinal political role, serving as agents of the Kuomintang in dealing with unions, radicals, and other opponents of the regime. en 1992 April 15, 1941 w:Deng Xiaoping The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping https://archive.org/details/selectedworksofd0000deng/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 7-119-01457-9 29034977 13010543M 17 https://archive.org/details/selectedworksofd0000deng/page/17/ If we say that the Communist Parties in West European countries are tainted with some undesirable traditions of the social-democratic parties, the Chinese Communist Party is more or less tainted with the undesirable traditions of the Kuomintang. The concept of “ruling the country by the party”, held by some comrades, is a manifestation in our Party of an abominable tradition of the Kuomintang. en 2004 Phil Macdonald National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan w:National Geographic Society 9780792265559 54962554 203 Next door, you can't miss the Fushan Illuminated Wall, a huge sign with red Chinese characters on a white background declaring: "Sleep with one's sword ready." Its purpose was to brace the islands' Kuomintang troops and to warn off the Communist troops always watching from just across the waters. en March 27, 2023 Chris Horton Taiwan’s Ex-President Heads to China in Historic and Closely Watched Visit w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230327065820/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/world/asia/taiwan-china-ma-visit.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific In February, the newly elected mayor of Taipei, Chiang Wan-an, welcomed a delegation from the Shanghai branch of the Taiwan Affairs Office. Andrew Hsia, a Kuomintang vice chairman, went to China and met with Wang Huning and Song Tao (diplomat) Song Tao, two key figures in Beijing’s Taiwan strategy. en Synonyms en Chungkuo Kuomintang en Chinese Nationalist Party en Nationalist Party of China Translations a nationalist political party in pre-Communist China, and contemporary Taiwan Chinese: Cantonese: yue 國民黨 gwok3 man4 dong2 Hokkien: nan-hbl 國民黨 Kok-bîn-tóng Mandarin: cmn 國民黨 Guómíndǎng French: fr Kuomintang ? German: de Kuomintang f Hindi: hi गुओमिंदांग Hungarian: hu Kuomintang Italian: it Kuomintang ? Japanese: ja 国民党 こくみんとう, Kokumintō Kazakh: kk Гоминдаң Korean: ko ^국민당(國民黨) Mongolian: mn Гоминдан Polish: pl Kuomintang m-in Russian: ru Гоминьда́н m Spanish: es Kuomintang ? Thai: th ก๊กมินตั๋ง Tibetan: bo གོའོ་མིན་ཏང Uyghur: ug گومىنداڭ Vietnamese: vi Quốc dân Đảng (vi 國民黨) Zhuang: za Gozminzdangj References smaller Further reading Kuomintang, Guomindang pn en China Chinese politics Organizations Political parties Politics Taiwan Taiwanese politics Nationalism