Kuomintang
English
Alternative forms
- Komintang
- (from pinyin) Guomindang
Etymology
From Wade-Giles romanization of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 國民黨/国民党 (Kuo²-min²-tang³, “Nationalist Party”).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Kuomintang
- (historical) A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
- 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.
- Synonym: KMT
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 238:
Translations
a nationalist political party in pre-Communist China
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