A report on Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek
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-shekFrom 1926 to 1928, the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek successfully led the Northern Expedition against regional warlords and unified the fragmented nation.
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Unequal treaty
0 linksName given by the Chinese to a series of treaties signed during the 19th and early 20th centuries, between China and various European powers, such as the British Empire, France, the German Empire, and the Russian Empire, as well as Japan and the United States.
Name given by the Chinese to a series of treaties signed during the 19th and early 20th centuries, between China and various European powers, such as the British Empire, France, the German Empire, and the Russian Empire, as well as Japan and the United States.
With the rise of Chinese nationalism and anti-imperialism in the 1920s, both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party used the concept to characterize the Chinese experience of losing sovereignty between roughly 1840 to 1950.
After Chiang Kai-shek declared a new national government in 1927, the Western powers quickly offered diplomatic recognition, arousing anxiety in Japan.
Dai Li
2 linksChinese spymaster.
Chinese spymaster.
Born Dai Chunfeng (Tai Chun-feng; 戴春風) in Bao'an, Jiangshan, Zhejiang province, he studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang Kai-shek served as Chief Commandant, and later became head of Chiang's Military Intelligence Service.
As the Chief of the Kuomintang (KMT) Army secret service in China, Dai Li helped to develop China's modern intelligence organization in 1928, "Clandestine Investigation Section" directly under the Northern Expeditionary Army's Headquarters with the aims of an early victory of the war to quell the nationwide unrest and minimize the loss of life by making the most of military and political intelligence.
Cold War
3 linksPeriod of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
Period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
In 1949, Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China.
Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng
1 linksNationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century.
Nationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century.
Modelling itself on the Kuomintang of Nationalist China (the same three characters in chữ Hán: ) the VNQDĐ gained a following among northerners, particularly teachers and intellectuals.
Although the VNQDĐ modelled itself on Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Nationalist Party (the Kuomintang or KMT, later led by Chiang Kai-shek), even down to copying the "Nationalist Party" designation, it had no direct relationship with its Chinese counterpart and in fact did not gain much attention outside Vietnam until the Yen Bay mutiny in 1930.
Taiwanese indigenous peoples
3 linksTaiwanese indigenous peoples (formerly Taiwanese aborigines), also known as Formosan people, Taiwanese Austronesians, Yuanzhumin or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 569,000 or 2.38% of the island's population.
Taiwanese indigenous peoples (formerly Taiwanese aborigines), also known as Formosan people, Taiwanese Austronesians, Yuanzhumin or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 569,000 or 2.38% of the island's population.
During the early period of Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) rule the terms Shandi Tongbao "mountain compatriots" and Pingdi Tongbao "plains compatriots" were invented, to remove the presumed taint of Japanese influence and reflect the place of Taiwan's indigenous people in the Chinese Nationalist state.
In 1949, on losing the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek led the Kuomintang in a retreat from Mainland China, withdrawing its government and 1.3 million refugees to Taiwan.
Ili Rebellion
4 linksThe Ili Rebellion (Üch Wiläyt inqilawi ) was a Uyghur separatist movement backed by the Soviet Union against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China in 1944.
According to her autobiography, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China, Rebiya Kadeer's father served with pro-Soviet Uyghur rebels under the Second East Turkestan Republic in the Ili Rebellion (Three Province Rebellion) in 1944–46, using Soviet assistance and aid to fight the Republic of China government under Chiang Kai-shek.
Chen Jiongming
1 linksHailufeng Hokkien revolutionary figure in the early period of the Republic of China.
Hailufeng Hokkien revolutionary figure in the early period of the Republic of China.
Unexpectedly revolting against the Kuomintang militarily in 1922, Chen led his forces to attack Sun's residence as well as office.
After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, he attacked Chiang Kai-shek's regime for its refusal to confront Japan and he organized boycotts of Japanese products.
Sino-Tibetan War
2 linksWar that began in 1930 when the Tibetan Army under the 13th Dalai Lama invaded Chinese-administered eastern Kham region (later called Xikang), and the Yushu region in Qinghai, over disputes regarding monasteries.
War that began in 1930 when the Tibetan Army under the 13th Dalai Lama invaded Chinese-administered eastern Kham region (later called Xikang), and the Yushu region in Qinghai, over disputes regarding monasteries.
Ma clique warlord Ma Bufang secretly sent a telegram to Sichuan warlord Liu Wenhui and the leader of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, suggesting a joint attack on the Tibetan forces.
Kuomintang Muslim official Tang Kesan was sent to negotiate for an end to the fighting.
Isa Alptekin
1 linksUyghur ultra-nationalist and pan-Turkic politician who served the Chinese Nationalist (KMT) regime and opposed both the First East Turkistan Republic and the Second East Turkestan Republic.
Uyghur ultra-nationalist and pan-Turkic politician who served the Chinese Nationalist (KMT) regime and opposed both the First East Turkistan Republic and the Second East Turkestan Republic.
They contacted Muhammad Amin Bughra when they also went to Afghanistan in 1940, asking him to come to Chongqing, the capital of the Kuomintang regime.
He asked Ma Bufang on whether Chiang Kaishek and the Chinese government would allow an independent Islamic state in southern Xinjiang to counter the Communists and the Soviet-backed Second East Turkestan Republic, but Ma Bufang did not bother with this request.
Yulbars Khan
1 linksYulbars Khan (يۇلبارس خان, يۇلۋاس خان (يولبارس خان), 'Tiger'; or ; 13 August 1889 – 27 July 1971), courtesy name Jingfu (景福), was a Uyghur chieftain and Kuomintang general during the Chinese Civil War.
Yulbars Khan was declared a traitor by Uyghur figures in the East Turkestan Independence Movement like Muhammad Amin Bughra and Isa Yusuf Alptekin for siding with Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, who continued to claim Xinjiang as a part of the Republic of China.