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unusual facts about Republic of China



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

2008 Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship

The 2008 Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Taipei, Republic of China from 20 September to 28 September 2008.

2011–12 Perth Heat season

Following the Heat's inaugural ABL Championship victory, the League announced that, beginning in 2011, the winner of each ABL Championship Series would participate in that year's Asia Series, a round-robin tournament of champion teams from the baseball leagues of Asia, including representatives of Japan, Republic of Korea, Republic of China and, going forward, People's Republic of China.

2012–13 Perth Heat season

In 2012, for the second consecutive year, the Heat will represent Australia in the Asia Series, a round-robin tournament of champion teams from the baseball leagues of Asia, including representatives of Japan, Republic of Korea, Republic of China and, going forward, People's Republic of China.

2013 Taiwan food scandal

ROC Environmental Protection Administration - Minister Stephen Shen said on 28 October that he would instruct local cleaning squads to accept and recycle oil bottles that still contain the adulterated oil.

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.

Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy

Attending the Conference were the representatives of Australia, Republic of China (Taiwan), Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Laos, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam.

Central News Agency

Central News Agency (Republic of China), the state news agency of the Republic of China (aka Taiwan)

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.

Chen Jian-yu

He and Hsu Chun-yat currently serves as the Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China.

Cheng Kung Senior High School

In 1946, the following year of the Allies victory over Japan in World War II and restoration of Taiwan to the Republic of China, the school was renamed the Taiwan Provincial Taipei Cheng Kung High School in memory of the national hero, Koxinga (Cheng Cheng-kung) for his resistance to foreign invaders.

China Airlines Flight 611

Chang Chia-juch, the Taiwanese Vice Minister of Transportation and Communications, said that two Cathay Pacific aircraft in the area received B-18255's emergency location-indicator signals.

Classical Chinese

Most government documents in the Republic of China were written in Classical Chinese until reforms in the 1970s, in a reform movement spearheaded by President Yen Chia-kan to shift the written style to vernacular Chinese.

Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation

The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會 Pinyin: Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì) was established in the Republic of China from 1912 to 1913 to select ancillary phonetic symbols for Mandarin, (Zhuyin was the product) and set the standard Guoyu pronunciation of basic Chinese characters.

Dariganga, Sükhbaatar

Jodbajab, the Qing and then Republic of China military official responsible for the area, attempted to retake it in August 1912, but was captured and taken prisoner, not to be released until 1915.

Democratic Pacific Union

The organization was established in Taipei, Republic of China on August 14, 2005, and former Vice President of the Republic of China, Annette Lu is its current chairperson.

Fourth Field Army

It was formed during the Chinese Civil War by existing members of Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army stationed in Manchuria along with others, where they fought against the Republic of China government.

Fu Hsing Kang College

The Political Warfare Cadres Academy (政治作戰學校), also known as Fu Hsing Kang College (復興崗, "Renaissance Hill"), is a military academy in Beitou District, Taipei, Republic of China.

Gambling in Taiwan

In 2003, the Criminal Investigation Bureau announced it was referring 300 Taiwanese customers of the United Kingdom-based online gaming site, Sportingbet, for prosecution.

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.

Hui nationality

One of the Five Races Under One Union under which all Muslims by religion were grouped, regardless of race, under the Republic of China, no longer in use

Hukawng Valley

During World War II, the Ledo Road was built by the US Army across the Hukawng Valley, largely by African-American engineer battalions and Chinese laborers, in order to supply the armies of the Republic of China, who were then allied with the Western Allies in the war against the Empire of Japan.

Jian-Shan Junior High School

Jian-Shan Junior High School (尖山國民中學) is located in Yingge District, New Taipei City, Republic of China (Taiwan), a small suburb of the capital Taipei.

Johann Lesinski

In May 1947 the Apostolic prefecture of Tingzhou (consisting mostly of the ROC's Changting Prefecture) was promoted to Diocesan standing and Lesiniski was named its bishop (consecrated thus in October of that year).

Konstantin Rokossovsky

Soon after, while serving in the Special Red Banner Eastern Army under Vasily Blücher, he took part in the Russo-Chinese Eastern Railroad War of 1929-1930 when the Soviet Union intervened to return the Chinese Eastern Railway to joint Chinese and Soviet administration, after Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China attempted to seize complete control of the railway.

Kuo Lin-yung

Kuo Lin-Yung (Chinese: 郭林勇; pinyin: Kuo Linyung; born November 20, 1946 in Yuan-Lin Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, the Republic of China), Taiwanese politician, is a two-time legislator, former President of the Taiwan Bar Association, and former Vice-Minister of Justice.

Maersk Dubai incident

Lee Cohen, a Halifax immigration lawyer, acted on behalf of some of the Filipino crew members, while the Republic of China retained the services of the Canadian criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan.

Max Reyter

In 1929 he participated in the battles of the Chinese-Eastern Railway to the Zhang Xueliang's troops of Republic of China.

Modern Buildings on Zhongshan Square in Dalian

After 1945, it was further renamed as Zhongshan Square, after Sun Zhongshan, the first president of the Republic of China.

National symbols of the Republic of China

This is the current list of the National Symbols of the Republic of China

Next Magazine

Next magazine (Chinese: 壹週刊; Pinyin: Yī zhōu kān; IPA in Cantonese: /jʌt7 dzʌl1 hɔːn2/) is a Chinese weekly magazine, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan with different versions.

Paul Yu

He also has been active professionally in other ways, including serving as external evaluator for the Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, and National Science Council of the Republic of China.

People's Liberation Army Air Force

The PLA's first organized air unit, the Nanyuan Flying Group, was formed only in the summer of 1949 from about 40 ex-Nationalist aircraft; its task was to defend Beijing, the nation's new capital.

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Policy of deliberate ambiguity

1992 consensus: the governments of mainland China (headquartered in Beijing) and Taiwan (in Taipei) formed a consensus in 1992 that both sides recognize that there is one China, but remain ambiguous on the content of that concept, such as whether China here means Republic of China or People's Republic of China.

Potsdam Conference

In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, on 26 July, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China (the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan) issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.

Rover Scout

Today, the Rover section remains an important part of Scouting in many European countries, in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (e.g. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong), across Central and South America, the Middle East and in many other countries such as Ireland, Japan, Republic of China/Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea.

Steven Choi

During the course of new sister city negotiations, he successfully opposed the One-China principle demanded by Shanghai's Xuhui government in the People's Republic of China, which would have required Irvine to abandon its existing long-term sister city relationship with Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Su Chia-chyuan

Currently the Secretary-General of the DPP, Su was formerly a legislator and later Pingtung County Commissioner, and held national posts as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Agriculture.

Taipei Municipal Song Shan Senior High School

United Daily News Group, Taipei City Hall, National Police Agency, Taipei Dome, Taipei 101 and Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall are the landmark buildings situated nearby.

Three Communiqués

Some of the issues addressed in this communiqué include the two sides' views on Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula, India & Pakistan and the Kashmir region, and perhaps most importantly, the Taiwan (Republic of China) issue.

Tourism in Taiwan

Tourism-related affairs are regulated by the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China.

Tsz-Shiou Senior High School

Tsz-Shiou Senior High School is a high school in Taiwan founded in 1971 by Chen Lu An, eldest son of former Vice-President, Chen Cheng a.k.a. Chen Tsyr-shiou, of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Yeh Kuang-shih

Commenting on the completion delay of Taoyuan International Airport MRT in mid April 2013, Yeh said that he hoped that the line can be opened somewhere before October 2014, after the ROC Ministry of Transportation and Communications had postponed it from its original June 2013 official launch.

Yok Mu-ming

In Guangzhou, Yok and his delegation members paid tribute at the Huanghuagang Mausoleum of 72 Martyrs honoring the deceased during the Second Guangzhou Uprising to overthrow Qing Dynasty and establish the Republic of China.

Zhang Shizhao

He was the Minister of Justice and Minister of Education of the Beiyang Government, led by Duan Qirui during the Republic of China period.


see also

Baisha

Baisha, Penghu, a rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Bian

Kaifeng, a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, People's Republic of China

CETV

China Education Television (中國教育電視台), a satellite education channel in the People's Republic of China

China Air

Air China, the flag carrier and one of the major airlines of the People's Republic of China

China News

China News Service, state-owned news agency in the People's Republic of China

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Chinese North Korean

China–North Korea relations, the foreign relations between the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Chung Hsing New Village

Taipei, capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan), was also the capital of Taiwan Province until 1956.

Comeback Player of the Year Award

CPBL most progressive award – Chinese Professional Baseball League (Taiwan; Republic of China)

Cyberethics

One of the most famous examples of a country controlling access is the Golden Shield Project, also referred to as the Great Firewall of China, a censorship and surveillance project set up and operated by the People's Republic of China.

Deng Yanda

The party eventually became one of the eight legal non-Communist parties in the People's Republic of China, where Deng is now recognised as a "Revolutionary Martyr."

Gao Yan

Gao Yan (politician), politician of the People's Republic of China, Secretary of the CPC Yunnan Committee

Guishan Island

Guishan Island (Zhuhai), an island of the People's Republic of China in the Wanshan Archipelago

History of transport in Hong Kong

The territory of Tuen Mun by then extends from western Shenzhen in the Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to western Kowloon in Hong Kong.

Interchange station

Examples include Kuramae Station of Toei in Tokyo, Japan, Lexington Avenue/59th Street/Lexington Avenue–63rd Street stations in New York City, United States, and Xizhimen, Fuxingmen, Jianguomen and Dongzhimen stations in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Intermediate cartridge

Since the 1960s NATO, the (former) Warsaw Pact, the People's Republic of China and other countries adapted relatively small sized, light weight, high velocity military intermediate service cartridges in the form of the 5.56×45mm NATO, Soviet 5.45×39mm and Chinese 5.8×42mm.

Ludian

Ludian County (鲁甸), in Zhaotong, Yunnan, People's Republic of China (PRC)

Majia

Majia, Pingtung (瑪家鄉), township of Pingtung County, Taiwan, Republic of China

March of the Dolls

Chinese contemporary artist Lee Shi-min released his March of the Dolls international anthem in advance of, and to commemorate and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.

Meinong

Meinong District (美濃區), a famous Hakka-concentrated district in Kaohsiung, Republic of China (Taiwan).

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).

Miaoli

Miaoli County (苗栗縣), a county located in central Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming Hsieh

His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China's upper middle class having ties with the old national government moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming's grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China); as a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin.

Moso

Mosuo, an ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China

Nangan

Nangan, Lienchiang (南竿鄉), one of the Matsu Islands and the chief township of Lienchiang County, Republic of China

Nantou

Nantou County (南投縣), a county in central Taiwan (Republic of China)

National identity

The Taiwanese also face an identity crisis: a conflict of national identity with civil identity, in which residents are issued national identification cards and passports under the country name "Republic of China", but a certain portion of them do not feel comfortable about viewing their country as "China".

NDRC

National Development and Reform Commission, central planning agency in the People's Republic of China

NEHS

NEHS, National Experimental High School, a public high school located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.

People's Government

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

Pingdong

Pingtung County (屏東縣), or Pingdong from its pinyin name, Taiwan, Republic of China

SAWS

State Administration of Work Safety, government agency of the People's Republic of China

Sinotruk

China National Heavy Duty Truck Group: or Sinotruk Group, a state-owned truck manufacturing enterprise in the People's 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.

Stephen S.F. Chen

In November, 2008 he traveled with Lien Chan, special envoy of President Ma Ying-Jeou to the APEC meeting in Lima, Peru where in a side meeting they met with the People's Republic of China's President Hu Jintao, in the highest level of official exchange between mainland China and Taiwan on an international stage.

Tai Ping Shan

Taiping Mountain, which is a mountain in Ilan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Taiwan–United States relations

and the first ever Direct Election of the Presidency of Republic of China in 1996 and President Lee Teng-hui's 1995 visit to Cornell University of the United States that incurred the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and the US intervention by deploying two aircraft carrier battlegroups near Taiwan Strait amid missile tests by People's Liberation Army in the nearby coastal provinces of People's Republic of China.

Taoyuan County

Taoyuan County, Hunan (桃源县), county of Changde, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

Its Founding Dean, Professor Zhu Rongji, later became the fifth Premier of the People’s Republic of China.

Vultee V-11

The V-11s and V-12s were used as light bombers and achieved some success, including a mission to bomb the Japanese held airfield by 4 aircraft at Yuncheng on February 5, 1939 by the 10th Squadron of the Republic of China Air Force, before the aircraft were withdrawn from bombing missions to training and liaison duties in 1940.

Wang Wei

Wang Wei (badminton), People's Republic of China badminton player who competed in the 2002 Asian Games

Wanli

Wanli District, New Taipei (萬里區), a district in New Taipei City, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Wugu

Wugu District, a district of New Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Wujie

Wujie, Yilan (五結鄉), township in eastern Yilan County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Wujing

People's Armed Police (武警), a paramilitary force of the People's Republic of China

Xiaolin

Xiaolin, Kaohsiung (小林里), village in Jiaxian District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yasuhisa Toyota

As of late 2006, his works in progress included the Shenzhen Cultural Center Concert Hall for the People's Republic of China, Finland's Helsinki Music Center, the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg and the renovation of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

Yilan

Yilan County, Heilongjiang (依兰县), a county of central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China

北山

Beishan, Changsha County, town in Hunan Province, People's Republic of China

阿里

Alishan National Scenic Area (阿里山), a mountain resort and natural preserve in Chiayi County, Republic of China (Taiwan)