Guomindang
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- proper noun
- Guomindang was established by Sun Yat-sen in 1911 and played a significant role in China's political landscape.
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In 1937, to mark the second Guomindang/CCP united front, both parties presented orations before the tomb of the Yellow Emperor in Shaanxi province.
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This took place in Moscow from July to September 1928, since it was too dangerous for the CCP to hold a large meeting under the Guomindang's dictatorship.
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"What remains to be noted here is the implementation of this policy of opportunism towards the Guomindang by some of the very men who now posed as its opponents.
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Rather than begin an internal and open discussion on what had gone so terribly wrong between 1925 and 1927, the same basic policy of continuing to work in the Guomindang was maintained.
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The PLA is heavily influenced by both Sun Zi and the guerrilla tactics of the Red Army and 8th Route Army against the Guomindang and Japanese, respectively.
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In 1929, Chen referred to five occasions in which he moved resolutions opposing work inside the Guomindang; every single time, Moscow overruled the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Since Chiang Kai-shek's April coup forced Moscow to recognize the very fact that they had been denying for the past four years, that is the bourgeois and counterrevolutionary character of the Guomindang, a way had to be found to 'discover' that a gross error had been made in supporting the Guomindang all this time.
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Since Chiang Kai-shek's April coup forced Moscow to recognize the very fact that they had been denying for the past four years, that is the bourgeois and counterrevolutionary character of the Guomindang, a way had to be found to 'discover' that a gross error had been made in supporting the Guomindang all this time.
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However, a small concession to reality was made, and with the removal of Chen Duxiu came the admission that the party had failed due to its opportunism in seeking an alliance with the Guomindang, although bizarrely this alliance was maintained as the aim of the party.
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After the Chinese civil war, the Guomindang retreated to Taiwan, where it continued to govern.
Synonyms
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A Chinese political party that governed China until 1949 and later became a main party in Taiwan
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guomindang is the English form of a Chinese name that breaks into three parts: guo ('country'), min ('people') and dang ('party'). So Guomindang literally means the 'party of the country's people' and is the name of the Chinese Nationalist Party, also written Kuomintang.