Meanings
alternative abbreviation GMD
- alternativeAlternative form of Kuomintang.
Chen's election as president in 2000 ended over 50 years of Guomindang (KMT) rule in Taiwan.
2010 December 3, “Taiwan's ex-president formally begins 19-year jail term”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 16 Jul 20234 more examples
For others, control of a province was an end in itself, a means of securing material gains and power. The most extreme case of this was Yan Xi-shan, lord of Shanxi from 1911 until the fall of the Guomindang in 1949.
1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, “The Republic of the Warlords: 1916–1919”, in Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, transl., China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44The northern expeditionary army had reached Wuhan, and some comrades became so proud and overweening, they forgot that the Guomindang was about to assault us.
1979 April 9 [1979 March 30], Theoretical Group of the Logistics Department of Shenyang PLA units, “Correctly Sum Up and Deal With Historical Experiences”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 069, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO 30 Mar 79 p 3, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page L 8The delegates at this First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party resolved to fight alone, without attempting to make any alliance with Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang.
1981, Norman Kolpas, Mao, Cameron & Tayleur, page 30On 7 January 1979 J.P. Hu, Myra Roper and I arrived in Peking chasing an opportunity to investigate the re-education methods imposed by the Chinese Communist regime on high-ranking military and administrative personnel from the pre-1949 era. An opportunity to pursue this interesting question arose when J.P. re-established contact with his father, a former Guomindang official, after 26 years of silence. His father, imprisoned soon after Liberation for his alleged counterrevolutionary activities, had participated in a programme of re-education and had finally been released at the 1975 amnesty.
1982, J. A. Fyfield, Re-educating Chinese Anti-communists, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 1
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan
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Origin
- Mandarin國民黨 /国民党
- EnglishGuomindang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 國民黨 /国民党 (Guómíndǎng).
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