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31 unusual facts about Kuomintang


Airco DH.9A

The Soviets deployed R-1s in support of the Chinese Kuomintang forces in the Northern Expedition against warlords in 1926-27 and against Chinese forces in clashes over control of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria in 1929.

Amdo

In 1928, the Ma Clique joined the Kuomintang, and during the period from 1928 to 1949, much of Amdo was gradually assimilated into the Qinghai province (and part of Gansu province) of the Kuomintang Republic of China.

Anti-communist mass killings

The Shanghai massacre of 1927, also known as the 12 April Incident, was a large-scale purge of Communists from the Kuomintang (KMT) in Shanghai, ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 12 April 1927, during the Northern Expedition against the warlords.

Asia First

In this period the US navy was also steamed into the Formosa Straits as a deterrent to prevent conflict between the Chinese nationalists who had escaped to the island of Formosa and the Chinese communists in mainland China.

Browning Hi-Power

Inglis produced two versions of the Hi-Power, one with an adjustable rear sight and detachable shoulder stock (primarily for a Nationalist Chinese contract) and one with a fixed rear sight.

Chin Haw

#After the Chinese revolution in 1949 AD, the 93rd Corps, which supported the Kuomintang party, fled to Burma and to the north of Thailand

Chinatown, Mexicali

After anti-Chinese sentiment faded, more Chinese arrived here, and it became the Mexican headquarters for the Kuomintang, or the Nationalist Chinese Party and the Anti-Communist League.

Chū Kudō

In 1942, he held secret meetings with Fumimaro Konoe and others in the upper levels of the Japanese government who hoped to bring a quick end to the Second Sino-Japanese War and an armistice with Kuomintang.

Da Yuan Shuai

The rank was replaced by the Nationalist Government with the "General Special Class" or "Generalissimo" (特級上將) and awarded to Chiang Kai-shek in 1935.

Edward Yum

He is the son of former Legislative Council member Yum Sin-ling, who once held a pro-Kuomintang party in Hong Kong called the 123 Democratic Alliance.

Hip Sing Association

During the 1930s and 40s, the Hip Sings were involved in drug trafficking operations with the Kuomintang (KMT) and later the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC).

Hoja-Niyaz

Other versions speculate he was held alive in prison as far as summer 1943, when he was executed on the orders of Chiang Kai-Shek, who restored Kuomintang control over Xinjiang in 1943 following Sheng Shicai expelling Soviet military personnel and advisers from the province.

Huang Chih-hsiung

Huang was placed third on the Kuomintang's legislators-at-large candidate list for the December 2004 legislative election, just behind Legislative Speaker Wang Jing-pyng and Deputy Legislative Speaker Chiang Pin-kung, and he subsequently won a seat in the sixth Legislative Yuan.

Ili National Army

Rebel aviation included 42 airplanes, captured in Ghulja Kuomintang air base and repaired by Soviet military personnel.

Joe Ah Chan

Ah Chan had been a founding member of the Chinese nationalist party, the Kuomintang, in New Zealand and served as chairman of its Waikato branch.

Kamal Kaya Efendi

Kamal served as Ma Zhongying's chief of staff in the Kuomintang 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army).

The Chinese Kuomintang government also hated Jin Shuren and wanted him removed.

Northwestern Youth Labor Camp

The Northwestern Youth Labor Camp was a Chinese labor camp for politically suspect youth established during the Chinese Civil War by order of Kuomintang Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 1 February 1940.

Philip Spratt

Spratt was also asked to write a pamphlet on China, urging India to follow the example of the Kuomintang.

Polikarpov I-15

In August 1937, the Chinese Kuomintang Government signed a non-aggression pact with the USSR.

Red Guards on Honghu Lake

In the summer of 1930, a landlord of Pengjiadun named Peng Batian takes advantage of the departure of the Red Army, cooperating with colonel Feng of the Kuomintang to attack the Honghu Base Area.

Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki

Fellow Chinese Muslims such as Kuomintang officer Liu Bin-Di provided him the Koran and other Arabic and Chinese Islamic texts to be translated into Uyghur.

Suk Bahadur Rai

He won the award for his brave actions in the raid against Kuomintang (KMT) insurgents on Battle of Tachileik Highway in Myanmar.

Sun Moon Lake

After Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government moved to Taiwan, the island was renamed Kuang Hua ("Glorious China") and in 1978 the local government built a pavilion where annual weddings took place.

Tungchow Mutiny

In July, a detachment of approximately 800 troops of the Chinese 29th Army, under the command of General Sung Che-yuan and loyal to the Kuomintang government, camped outside the walls of Tongzhou.

On 27 July, the Japanese commander demanded that the Kuomintang soldiers disarm.

Type 4 75 mm AA Gun

Japanese forces captured examples of the Bofors M29 75mm AA gun from the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang government of China, and the Army Technical Bureau was impressed with its performance, which was much superior to the existing Japanese Type 88 75 mm AA Gun.

Type 64 pistol

Ever since the expulsion of the Kuomintang government, concluding the Chinese Civil War, the People's Liberation Army relied heavily upon support from the Soviet Union for supplies and weaponry.

Wataru Kaji

Kaji, along with Yuki Ikeda, and another Japanese named Kazuo Aoyama, were involved with the re-education of captured Japanese soldiers, and psychological warfare against the Empire of Japan for the Kuomintang which was conducted by the Japanese People's Anti-war Alliance.

Whore of the Orient

The Kuomintang ruthlessly puts down labor movements in an effort to suppress communism, whilst the International Police Force attempt to keep the peace.

Zhu Qinglai

In 1940 Zhu Qinglai participated in the Reorganised National Government of China and entered the Kuomintang (Wang's clique).


1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt

The VNQDĐ had run a military academy in Yunnan near the Chinese border with the assistance of their nationalist Chinese counterparts, the Kuomintang.

Allegations of CIA drug trafficking

In order to provide covert funds for the Kuomintang (KMT) forces loyal to General Chiang Kai-shek, who were fighting the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong, the CIA helped the KMT smuggle opium from China and Burma to Bangkok, Thailand, by providing airplanes owned by one of their front businesses, Air America.

Campaign to the North of Nanchuan County

By mid November 1949, one of the communist attacks on the nationalist XIV Corps and XX Corps had succeeded in breaching the nationalist defense on both flanks, resulting in Youyang (酉阳), Xiushan and Enshi falling into the enemy hands.

Chan Chun-po

Chan was appointed to be the Secretary-General of Kuomintang for the second time on 9 September by KMT Chairman Wu Po-hsiung.

Chekiang Province, Republic of China

After the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government lost its control in Mainland China and only held several east coast islands off Mainland Chekiang Province, including Tachen, Ichiangshan (Yikiangshan), Pishan, Taumenshan, Yüshan and Nanki.

Cheng Qian

By the late 1940s he was one of the most powerful members of the Kuomintang, and in 1948, he was a successful candidate for the vice-presidency of the KMT National Government.

China Hands

Colonel David Barrett and John S. Service reported favorably on the strength and capabilities of the Chinese Communist Party compared with the Chinese Nationalists.

Clarence Stewart Williams

In 1926, the Kuomintang allied with the Chinese Communist Party to launch the Northern Expedition with the objective of unifying the country by suppressing local warlords and abrogating the unequal treaties imposed on China by the Western powers.

Demos Chiang

He has also accused both the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party for "poor political tactics", especially for utilizing Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo as figures of worship or denigration.

First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei–Henan–Shaanxi Soviet

The First Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet was a campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government intended to destroy Communist Party of China's Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet and its local Red Army.

George H. Kerr

After the war, Kerr returned to Taiwan in 1945 as an Assistant Naval Attaché, escorting the newly appointed Chinese Governor-General Chen Yi to the Japanese surrender of Taiwan on 25 October 1945 (Retrocession Day).

Government Information Office

The GIO was formally inaugurated in Nanjing on 2 May 1947, and the Department of International Publicity, originally under the Ministry of Information of the Kuomintang, was placed under it.

Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council

HKTUC has been pro-Kuomintang, one of the main political parties of the Republic of China since its establishment in 1948 and has maintained a close relationship with the party.

Honghu

The scenic Lake Honghu was the centerpiece of a revolutionary opera: "The Red Guards on Honghu Lake" (洪湖赤卫队) which was based on a true story about the Red Army and its struggle with the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War.

Hsu Hsin-liang

He was expelled from Kuomintang but broke ranks in 1977 when he ran and won as an independent in the election for Magistrate of Taoyuan County.

Jiefang Daily

After Shanghai was taken over by the People's Liberation Army from the Kuomintang government, the newspaper started publication on May 28, 1949 by continuing to use the name of the central government's former Party newspaper Jiefang Daily published in the communist base Yan'an in northern Shaanxi Province.

Kōichi Shiozawa

In response, Nationalist forces moved into the Chinese suburb of Chapei and skirmished with patrolling Japanese marines.

Mao Zejian

Mao Zejian (毛澤建) (October 1905–20 August 1929) was a cousin of Mao Zedong, who was executed by the Kuomintang in Hengshan, Hunan.

Member states of the United Nations

Between 1993 and 2007, the ROC repeatedly petitioned to rejoin the UN as the representative of Taiwan, instead of as the representative of China, using the designation "Republic of China on Taiwan" (used by the Kuomintang-led administration under Lee Teng-hui), "Republic of China (Taiwan)" (used by the Democratic Progressive Party-led administration under Chen Shui-bian), or "Taiwan" (used by the administration under Chen Shui-bian for the first time in 2007).

Nationalist revolution

The Northern Expedition of China in 1928, when the Kuomintang took power.

Pan-Blue Coalition

The popular Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou was also elected the new head of the Kuomintang, and was considered the leading contender for the KMT nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

People's Government

Fujian People's Government (1933–1934), anti-Kuomintang government in the Fujian Province of the Republic of China

Song to the Auspicious Cloud

Several puppet governments established by the Japanese army, such as Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Reformed Government of the Republic of China, also used this anthem, as these puppet state recommissioned all the old Republic of China national symbols before Kuomintang came to power in 1928.

Soviet invasion of Xinjiang

General Ma Zhongying, a Hui (Chinese Muslim), had earlier attended the Whampoa Military Academy in Nanjing in 1929, when it was run by Chiang Kai-shek, who was also the head of the Kuomintang and leader of China.

Taiwan Province

These hopes proved unfulfilled as then-Kuomintang member James Soong was elected governor of the Taiwan province by a wide margin, defeating the DPP candidate Chen Ding-nan.

The Five Martyrs

The Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers: five left-wing Chinese writers executed by the Kuomintang on 7 February 1931.

Three Principles of the People

The pro-Kuomintang and pro-ROC Khamba revolutionary leader Pandatsang Rapga, who established the Tibet Improvement Party, adopted Dr. Sun's ideology including the Three Principles, incorporating them into his party and using Sun's doctrine as a model for his vision of Tibet after achieving his goal of overthrowing the Tibetan government.

Tiu Keng Leng

The area used to be a refugee village housing former Kuomintang officials and follower who escaped to Hong Kong from Mainland China after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC); however, the original Rennie's Mill village was cleared before Hong Kong's sovereignty transfer to the PRC in 1997, and nowadays Tiu Keng Leng is thoroughly redeveloped as part of the Tseung Kwan O New Town.

Tongyong Pinyin

During 2008, the Kuomintang won both the legislative and presidential elections.

Wang Ch'ung-hui

He was a close associate of the republic's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, an active member of the Kuomintang ("Chinese Nationalist Party"), and a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.