Guomindang

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See also: Guómíndǎng

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 國民黨国民党 (Guómíndǎng).

Proper noun

Guomindang

  1. Alternative spelling of Kuomintang.
    • 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 44:
      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.
    • 1981, Norman Kolpas, Mao, Cameron & Tayleur, page 30:
      The 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.
    • 1982, J. A. Fyfield, Re-educating Chinese Anti-communists, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 1:
      On 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.
    • 2010 December 3, “Taiwan's ex-president formally begins 19-year jail term”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on July 16, 2023:
      Chen's election as president in 2000 ended over 50 years of Guomindang (KMT) rule in Taiwan.

French

Proper noun

Guomindang m

  1. Kuomintang