A report on Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek and British Hong Kong

Chiang in 1943
The Revolutionary Army attacking Nanjing in 1911
Chiang Kai-shek in 1907
The KMT reveres its founder, Sun Yat-sen, as the "Father of the Nation"
Sun Yat-sen and Chiang at the 1924 opening ceremonies for the Soviet-funded Whampoa Military Academy
Possibly the earliest painting of Hong Kong Island, showing the waterfront settlement which became Victoria City
Venue of the 1st National Congress of Kuomintang in 1924
Chiang in the early 1920s
Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang after Sun's death in 1925
Chiang (right) together with Wang Jingwei (left), 1926
Spring Garden Lane, 1846
KMT flag displayed in Lhasa, Tibet in 1938
Chiang and Feng Yuxiang in 1928
Hong Kong in the 1930s
The National Revolutionary Army soldiers marched into the British concessions in Hankou during the Northern Expedition
Chiang during a visit to an air force base in 1945
Japanese troops crossing the border from the mainland, 1941
The KMT in Tihwa, Sinkiang in 1942
Chiang and Soong on the cover of Time magazine, 26 October 1931
British forces reoccupy Hong Kong under Rear-Admiral Cecil Harcourt, 30 August 1945
Nationalist soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Nationalist government of Nanking – nominally ruling over entire China in 1930s
Government House, c. 1873
The retrocession of Taiwan in Taipei on 25 October 1945
After the breakout of the Second Sino-Japanese War, The Young Companion featured Chiang on its cover.
Victoria Harbour in 1988, showing the Bank of China Tower being built
The former KMT headquarters in Taipei City (1949–2006), whose imposing structure, directly facing the Presidential Office Building, was seen as a symbol of the party's wealth and dominance
Chiang with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Cairo, Egypt, November 1943
Statue of Bruce Lee on the Avenue of Stars, a tribute to the city's film industry
Pan-blue supporters at a rally during the 2004 presidential election
Chiang and his wife Soong Mei-ling sharing a laugh with U.S. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, Burma, April 1942
The Hong Kong Sevens, considered the premier tournament of the World Rugby Sevens Series, is played each spring.
Kuomintang public service center in Shilin, Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in 1945
Police confrontation during the 1967 leftist riots
Lien Chan (middle) and Wu Po-hsiung (second left) and the KMT touring the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, People's Republic of China when the Pan-Blue coalition visited the mainland in 2005
Chiang with South Korean President Syngman Rhee in 1949
KMT headquarters in Taipei City before the KMT Central Committee moved in June 2006 to a much more modest Bade building, having sold the original headquarters to private investors of the EVA Airways Corporation
Map of the Chinese Civil War (1946–1950)
KMT Kinmen headquarters office in Jincheng Township, Kinmen County
Chiang with Japanese politician Nobusuke Kishi, in 1957
KMT Building in Vancouver's Chinatown, British Columbia, Canada
Chiang presiding over the 1966 Double Ten celebrations
KMT branch office in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan City
Chiang with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1960
The KMT maintains offices in some of the Chinatowns of the world and its United States party headquarters are located in San Francisco Chinatown, on Stockton Street directly across the Chinese Six Companies
The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei, Taiwan.
KMT Eastern U.S. headquarters is in New York Chinatown
Chiang's portrait in Tiananmen Rostrum
KMT office of Australasia in Sydney, Australia
Chinese propaganda poster proclaiming "Long Live the President"
From left to right, KMT members pay tribute to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Beijing in 1928 after the success of the Northern Expedition: Generals Cheng Jin, Zhang Zuobao, Chen Diaoyuan, Chiang Kai-shek, Woo Tsin-hang, Yan Xishan, General Ma Fuxiang, Ma Sida and General Bai Chongxi
A Chinese stamp with Chiang Kai-shek
Malaysian Chinese Association
Chiang Kai-shek and Winston Churchill heads, with Nationalist China flag and Union Jack
Vietnamese Kuomintang
Statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan
People's Action Party of Vietnam
Duke of Zhou
Taipei Grand Mosque
Chiang Kai-shek with the Muslim General Ma Fushou
The KMT reveres its founder, Sun Yat-sen, as the "Father of the Nation"
Chiang Kai-shek as Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim
Venue of the 1st National Congress of Kuomintang in 1924
Mao Fumei (毛福梅, 1882–1939), who died in the Second Sino-Japanese War during a bombardment, is the mother of his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo
Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 1889–1972), who came to Taiwan and died in Taipei
Chen Jieru (陳潔如, "Jennie", 1906–1971), who lived in Shanghai, but moved to Hong Kong later and died there
Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡, 1898–2003), who moved to the United States after Chiang Kai-shek's death, is arguably his most famous wife even though they had no children together

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng, Chiang Chieh-shih, Cheung Kai-shek and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader, who served as the leader of the Republic of China from 1928 to until his death in 1975.

- Chiang Kai-shek

From 1926 to 1928, the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek successfully led the Northern Expedition against regional warlords and unified the fragmented nation.

- Kuomintang

In 1941, during the Second World War, the British reached an agreement with the Chinese government under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that if Japan attacked Hong Kong, the Chinese National Army would attack the Japanese from the rear to relieve pressure on the British garrison.

- British Hong Kong

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, whom he admired greatly and who forged all his political, economic, and revolutionary ideas primarily from what he had learned in Hawaii and indirectly through Hong Kong and Japan under the Meiji Restoration, Chiang knew relatively little about the West.

- Kuomintang

With the surrender of Japan, the transition back to British rule was smooth, for on the mainland the Nationalist and Communist forces were preparing for a civil war and ignored Hong Kong.

- British Hong Kong

They abandoned their attacks on Chen on 9 August, taking a British ship to Hong Kong and traveling to Shanghai by steamer.

- Chiang Kai-shek

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China (today's Guangdong), Mangi (inland of Xanton), and Cataio (inland of China and Chequan, and including the capital Cambalu, Xandu, and a marble bridge) are all shown as separate regions on this 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius
10,000 years old pottery, Xianren Cave culture (18000–7000 BCE)
Yinxu, the ruins of the capital of the late Shang dynasty (14th century BCE)
China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is famed for having united the Warring States' walls to form the Great Wall of China. Most of the present structure, however, dates to the Ming dynasty.
Map showing the expansion of Han dynasty in the 2nd century BC
The Tang dynasty at its greatest extent
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The Qing conquest of the Ming and expansion of the empire
The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China to defeat the anti-foreign Boxers and their Qing backers. The image shows a celebration ceremony inside the Chinese imperial palace, the Forbidden City after the signing of the Boxer Protocol in 1901.
Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of Republic of China, one of the first republics in Asia.
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong toasting together in 1945 following the end of World War II
Mao Zedong proclaiming the establishment of the PRC in 1949.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests was ended by a military-led massacre which brought condemnations and sanctions against the Chinese government from various foreign countries.
Satellite image of China from NASA WorldWind
Köppen-Geiger climate classification map for mainland China.
A giant panda, China's most famous endangered and endemic species, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.
Earliest known written formula for gunpowder, from the Wujing Zongyao of 1044 CE
Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen. Huawei is the world's largest telecoms-equipment-maker and the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, one of the first Chinese spaceports
Internet penetration rates in China in the context of East Asia and Southeast Asia, 1995–2012
The Duge Bridge is the highest bridge in the world.
The Beijing Daxing International Airport features the world's largest single-building airport terminal.
The Port of Shanghai's deep water harbor on Yangshan Island in the Hangzhou Bay is the world's busiest container port since 2010.
A 2009 population density map of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. The eastern coastal provinces are much more densely populated than the western interior.
Ethnolinguistic map of China
A trilingual sign in Sibsongbanna, with Tai Lü language on the top
Map of the ten largest cities in China (2010)
Beijing's Peking University, one of the top-ranked universities in China
Chart showing the rise of China's Human Development Index from 1970 to 2010
Geographic distribution of religions in China. Chinese folk religion (including Confucianism, Taoism, and groups of Chinese Buddhism) Buddhism tout court Islam Ethnic minorities' indigenous religions Mongolian folk religion Northeast China folk religion influenced by Tungus and Manchu shamanism; widespread Shanrendao
Fenghuang County, an ancient town that harbors many architectural remains of Ming and Qing styles.
A Moon gate in a Chinese garden.
The stories in Journey to the West are common themes in Peking opera.
Map showing major regional cuisines of China
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent and was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago.
Long March 2F launching Shenzhou spacecraft. China is one of the only three countries with independent human spaceflight capability.
The Tang dynasty at its greatest extent and Tang's protectorates
Lihaozhai High School in Jianshui, Yunnan. The sign is in Hani (Latin alphabet), Nisu (Yi script), and Chinese.
The Qing conquest of the Ming and expansion of the empire
China topographic map with East Asia countries

Japan invaded China in 1937, starting the Second Sino-Japanese War and temporarily halting the civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT).

In the late 1920s, the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek, the then Principal of the Republic of China Military Academy, was able to reunify the country under its own control with a series of deft military and political maneuverings, known collectively as the Northern Expedition.

British Hong Kong and Portuguese Macau returned to China in 1997 and 1999, respectively, as the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions under the principle of One country, two systems.