Citations:Kuomintang

English citations of Kuomintang

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• 1912 September 7, “The Passing of the Tungmenghui”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[1], volume CIV, number 2352, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 686, column 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.

• 1916, F. L. Pratt, “CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1915”, in China Mission Year Book 1916‎^[2], Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, 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.

• 1927 May, Quincy Wright, “Bolshevist Influences in China”, in Current History‎^[3], volume XXVI, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 300, column 2:

  If the Kuomintang can keep united and can keep to the democratic nationalism of Sun Yat-sen it seems to have some prospects of uniting China. It has adherents among all classes of Chinese in all parts of China.

• 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎^[4], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 49:

  Four days later Chiang Kai-shek, now commander-in-chief of the garrisons in Canton, was in full control of the city. The left wing of the Kuomintang was firmly established in power, and Chiang was its acknowledged head.

• 1942 [1942 February 18], Kai-shek Chiang, “A wartime way of life”, in All We Are and All We Have‎^[5], New York: Chinese News Service, →OCLC, page 7:

  In December of last year the Ninth Plenary Session of the Central Executive and Supervisory Committee of the Party (Kuomintang) approved an “Outline of Provisions for National Mobilization.” On the basis of this the Government is soon to issue ordinances with the main object of controlling and developing those human and material resources that have not yet been exploited, of restricting consumption and adjusting production and supply of commodities, and of defining every citizen’s war duties.

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Introduction”, in James C. H. Shen, transl., Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[6], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

  In spite of the failure of the first trial run of "peaceful coexistence," Kuomintang, and later the Chinese Government under my leadership, went through two more periods of "peaceful coexistence," resulting in the total loss of the Chinese mainland.

• 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎^[7], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:

  At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.

• 1971, “A Yi Flight Commander”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[8], volume X, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:

  Yang Kuo-hsiang was born in a poor peasant family in Yuhsi County in Yunnan Province, South-west China, and tended cows for a landlord at the age of nine. One year the Kuomintang reactionaries pressganged men and Yang Kuo-hsiang was forced to leave his village.

• 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 238:

  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.

• 1983 December 4, “6.7 Million Voters Select 71 Legislators”, in Free China Weekly‎^[9], volume XXIV, number 48, Taipei, page 1:

  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.

• 1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule‎^[10], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, 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.

• 1988 January 17, Clyde Haberman, “Taiwan Imprisons 2 Backing Independence”, in The New York Times‎^[11], archived from the original on 01 February 2011‎^[12]:

  Although the ruling party, the Kuomintang, insists that its basic policies have not changed, uncertainty about this island nation's political direction has increased since the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo on Wednesday.

• 1992 [1941 April 15], Xiaoping Deng, “The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government”, in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎^[13], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

• 1998, Robert Storey, “Facts for the Visitor”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet)‎^[14], 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63, column 1:

  Year zero for the Kuomintang is 1911 - the year when the Republic of China was founded. All official documents in Taiwan use 1911 as a reference point in establishing the date. Thus the year 1998 is 87 (1998 minus 1911) - in other words, the 87th year since the founding of the Republic.

• 2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan‎^[15], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:

  In my bid for re-election as mayor of Taipei, I lost to Ma Ying-jeou, representing the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's ruling party.

• 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 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.

• 2006 Spring, Xiaoguang Kang, “Confucianization: A Future in the Tradition”, in China in Transition‎^[16], volume 73, number 1, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108:

  There is a widely known story. It is said that when the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP were fighting and the CCP was about to win, Huang Yanpei went to Shaanbei, the northern part of Shaanxi province, and had a talk with Mao Zedong. Huang asked Mao how the CCP could transcend the periodic law of cycles. By relying on democracy was the answer that Mao gave with self-confidence.

• 2012 [1998 May 11], Zemin Jiang, “Tasks for Work Related to Taiwan in the New Circumstances”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin‎^[17], volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:

  Our Taiwan compatriots have a glorious patriotic tradition. Nevertheless, we must also recognize that many Taiwan compatriots have misgivings about reunification to varying degrees and many others advocate maintaining the status quo owing to a number of complex historical and practical reasons, including the period of Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan, especially the Kominka Movement;¹ the violent suppression of the 228 Incident² by the Kuomintang (KMT), suppression of the Taiwan people and long history of anti-Communist propaganda; and the United States’ adherence to its policy of interfering in the Taiwan question.

• 2014 [2013 June 13], Jinping Xi, “Handle Cross-Straits Relations in the Overall Interests of the Chinese Nation”, in The Governance of China‎^[18], volume I, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [19]:

  Although the mainland and Taiwan are yet to be reunited, they belong to one and same China, which is an indivisible whole. The Kuomintang and the CPC have every reason to uphold the one-China stance and work together to maintain the one-China framework.

• 2020 January 11, “The state of Taiwan: Five things to know”, in France 24‎^[20], archived from the original on 11 January 2020:

  After being defeated by the Communist Party in 1949, China's Kuomintang (KMT) nationalist government fled to the island province of Taiwan 180 kilometres (110 miles) off the mainland. […] In a historical irony, the modern-day version of the Kuomintang is the party that now pushes much warmer ties with communist China.

• 2021 June 9, “Coronavirus: critics ask why Taiwan’s death rate is higher than the global pandemic average”, in AP News‎^[21], archived from the original on 16 May 2022:

  “What has the government done wrong to have our Covid-19 fatality rate going even higher than the average global rate,” said Cheng Li-wen, a legislator of the main opposition Kuomintang party, in a recent Facebook post.

• 2021 September 25, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan opposition party's new leader pledges renewed talks with China”, in Mike Harrison, editor, Reuters‎^[22], archived from the original on 21 March 2021, Asia Pacific:

  Taiwan's main opposition party elected former leader Eric Chu as its chairman on Saturday with a pledge to renew stalled talks with China, which has ramped up military and political pressure against the island Beijing claims as its own territory.
  Chu, 60, a former mayor of New Taipei City, beat Kuomintang (KMT) incumbent Johnny Chiang and two other contenders in the chairmanship election, though he will not take over immediately.

• 2021 December 18, “Taiwan votes against referendums on US trade in major setback for opposition”, in France 24‎^[23], archived from the original on 18 December 2021:

  Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang, or KMT, which traditionally favours close ties with Beijing, is hoping to make a comeback in key mayoral elections late next year.

• 2022 February 5, “Senior CPC official meets with former KMT chairperson”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[24], archived from the original on 05 February 2022:

  Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Wang Yang Saturday met with Hung Hsiu-chu, former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang party, in Beijing after Hung attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

• 2022 May 21, “KMT Legislator Lin Wei-chou slated to run for mayor of Zhubei City”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[25], archived from the original on 24 May 2022:

  Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) narrowly won the main opposition party's primary Saturday for mayor of Zhubei City, a township-level city in Hsinchu County.

• 2022 June 10, “China warns US it would ‘thwart’ any Taiwan independence attempt”, in EFE‎^[26], archived from the original on 10 June 2022:

  Under the ‘One China’ policy, China claims sovereignty over Taiwan and considers it a breakaway province after the Kuomintang nationalists retreated to the island in 1949 after losing the civil war against the Communists.

• 2022 July 4, Jordyn Haime, “How Israeli songs became integral to Taiwan’s national folk dancing tradition”, in The Times of Israel‎^[27], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 July 2022:

  For many of these locals, the dances are familiar, almost second nature. All over the age of 50, they grew up at a time when international folk dancing was the only group activity allowed by the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) government, starting in 1949.

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• 2022 March 23, “Former Chinese leader He Luli cremated”, in China Daily‎^[28], archived from the original on 23 March 2022:

  He Luli, former leader of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, was cremated in Beijing on Wednesday. She died in Beijing on March 19 at the age of 88.

• 2022 September 3, 愚工 [Yu Kung], “China shuns friendliness of KMT”, in Julian Clegg, transl., Taipei Times‎^[29], archived from the original on 03 September 2022:

  The KMT’s act of self-humiliation is reminiscent of what happened in 1948, when it was being buffeted by the storm of the Chinese Civil War.
  In January of that year, a group of KMT members established the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (中國國民黨革命委員會), which supported the CCP’s call, as one of its “May Day slogans,” to establish a democratic coalition government.