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unusual facts about Nationalist Government



1928 in China

October 8Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China

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.

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.

Sun Yun-suan

In 1946, he was sent to Taiwan (which had just been returned to the Nationalist Government from Japan following the Chinese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War) to work at the Taiwan Power Company, a public utility.

Taichung Mosque

After fleeing Mainland China with the Nationalist Government at the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, some Chinese Muslims resided in Tianzhong, Changhua.


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Chen Duxiu

In 1927, he and other high-ranking Communists, including Mao Zedong and Borodin, collaborated closely with Wang Jingwei's Nationalist government in Wuhan, convincing Wang's regime to adopt various proto-Communist policies.

Chen Gongbo

In mid-1944, when Wang traveled to Japan for medical treatment, Chen was left in charge as acting president of the Executive Yuan, becoming president of the Nanjing Nationalist government on Wang’s death in November 1944.

Ignacio Bolívar

After the Spanish Civil War he was exiled to Mexico when the nationalist government harshly repressed Republican militants and sympathisers, as retaliation for the equally harsh repression of clergy and nationalist militants on the opposite side.

K. C. Wu

Following the relocation of the Nationalist government to Taipei, Wu served as Governor of Taiwan from 1949 to 1953.

Levan Ramishvili

Later in 1992 he was actively campaigning against the nationalist government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

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.