Free China

Free China

1. (historical, World War II) Those areas of China not occupied by Japan, including areas dominated by Communist resistance.
   • 1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal‎, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 6:

     Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base.

   • 1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos‎, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32:

     Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the Yenping Conference—the Hwa Nan College and Hwa Nan High School at Nanping, and the Anglo-Chinese College and Union Kindergarten Training School at Yankow.

2. (dated) The Republic of China in Taiwan as opposed to Communist China, i.e. the People's Republic of China, primarily used during the Cold War prior to 1979.

   Antonym: Red China

   • 1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green‎, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10:

     Thus I met Captain Chang Yi Ming, commanding officer of the tiny guerrilla forces of Free China on Tungting Island.

   • April 27, 1957, David Nelson Rowe, “Will We Sacrifice Free China?”, in National Review‎, volume III, number 17, page 397:

     These pressures might lead to an eventual abandonment of Free China. And this possibility, I believe, is rooted, not in the issues themselves, but in a general public attitude full of danger for our China policy.
     I refer here to the fact that the attitudes of both the public and Congress are far more anti-Chinese Communist than they are pro-Free China. The public insists that Communist China is not worthy of admission to even such an utterly non-homogeneous community of nations as we have today. But we hold far less emphatic attitudes on Free China.
     . . .
     The danger of such an inadequately informed opinion is clear. If our China policy remains rooted more in fear of Communist China than in support of Free China, we are far more likely to be susceptible to Communist blackmail and intimidation than to be aware of the vital need for cooperation with our allies, the Free Chinese.

   • 1958 December, Daniel A. Poling, “Aylward Activities”, in Christian Herald‎, page 4:

     Have you any further word concerning Gladys Aylward, "The Small Woman," and her moving picture?
     GEORGIA MRS. A.G.
     No further word other than press releases concerning this picture. But Gladys Alyward herself recently conducted a three-week preaching mission on Free China's first line of defense, the off-shore island of Kinmen. In her meetings with the troops, scores signified their desire to accept Christ as their Savior.

   • 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956‎, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

     When the mainland of China fell, one of America's stanchest personal allies was driven, with what forces he had left, across the Formosa Straits to that island which is now the remaining remnant of Free China.

   • 1975 October 5, “Big gains shown in exports of ROC electrical appliances”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVI, number 39, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Free China's electrical appliances industry has made big strides in diversifying its overseas markets as well as boosting its sales volume abroad, the China External Trade Development Council said Sept. 27.

   • 2016, Rachel C. Larson, “Cold War Tensions”, in The American Republic‎, 4th edition, Greenville, SC: BJU Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 484:

     During the Cold War, the Soviet Union vetoed more than a hundred decisions of the Security Council. The Soviet Union vetoed more decisions than all the other members. When the seat of Free China was given to Communist China, vetoes from Communist powers increased.

   • 2023 March 24, Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu, “China’s Maps Call Vladivostok ‘Haishenwai’”, in The New York Sun‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-24‎:

     The standards, released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on the approval of the State Council of the people’s republic, require that all Chinese maps “accurately reflect the scope of China’s territory.” In addition to islands in the South China Sea and Free China – which is to be called “Taiwan Province” – this also appears to include eight Russian cities that span the Sino-Russian border.