Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese statesman,revolutionary,and military commander. He was the head of the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party,General of the National Revolutionary Army,known as Generalissimo,and the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) in mainland China from 1928 until 1949. After being defeated in the Chinese Civil War by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949,he led the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan until his death in 1975.
Sun Fo,courtesy name Zhesheng (哲生),was a Chinese politician and high-ranking official in the government of the Republic of China. He was the son of Sun Yat-sen,the founder of the Republic of China,and his first wife Lu Muzhen.
Xue Yue was a Chinese Nationalist military general,nicknamed the "Patton of Asia" by Claire Lee Chennault of the Flying Tigers.
Hu Hanmin was a Chinese philosopher and politician who was one of the early conservative right-wing faction leaders in the Kuomintang (KMT) during revolutionary China.
The First United Front,also known as the KMT–CCP Alliance,of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),was formed in 1924 as an alliance to end warlordism in China. Together they formed the National Revolutionary Army and set out in 1926 on the Northern Expedition. The CCP joined the KMT as individuals,making use of KMT's superiority in numbers to help spread communism. The KMT,on the other hand,wanted to control the communists from within. Both parties had their own aims and the Front was unsustainable. In 1927,KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek purged the Communists from the Front while the Northern Expedition was still half-complete. This initiated a civil war between the two parties that lasted until the Second United Front was formed in 1936 to prepare for the coming Second Sino-Japanese War.
Liao Zhongkai was a Chinese-American Kuomintang leader and financier. He was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party (KMT–CCP) United Front in the 1920s. He was assassinated in Canton in August 1925.
The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927,the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China,was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations and leftist elements in Shanghai by forces supporting General Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang. Following the incident,conservative KMT elements carried out a full-scale purge of communists in all areas under their control,and violent suppression occurred in Guangzhou and Changsha. The purge led to an open split between left-wing and right-wing factions in the KMT,with Chiang Kai-shek establishing himself as the leader of the right-wing faction based in Nanjing,in opposition to the original left-wing KMT government based in Wuhan,which was led by Wang Jingwei. By 15 July 1927,the Wuhan regime had expelled the Communists in its ranks,effectively ending the First United Front,a working alliance of both the KMT and CCP under the tutelage of Comintern agents. For the rest of 1927,the CCP would fight to regain power,beginning the Autumn Harvest Uprising. With the failure and the crushing of the Guangzhou Uprising at Guangzhou however,the power of the Communists was largely diminished,unable to launch another major urban offensive.
SS Zhongshan,formerly romanized as Chung Shan,was a Chinese gunboat built in Japan in 1913. It was originally known as SS Yongfeng,before being renamed in 1925 in honor of Sun Yat-sen. Zhongshan was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War,but was later raised and restored as a museum ship in Wuhan.
The Canton Coup of 20 March 1926,also known as the Zhongshan Incident or the March 20th Incident, was a purge of Communist elements of the Nationalist army in Guangzhou undertaken by Chiang Kai-shek. The incident solidified Chiang's power immediately before the successful Northern Expedition,turning him into the paramount leader of the country.
The Second Guangzhou (Canton) Uprising,known in Chinese as the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising or the Guangzhou Xinhai Uprising,was a failed uprising took place in China led by Huang Xing and his fellow revolutionaries against the Qing dynasty in Canton (Guangzhou). It is honored in Guangzhou's Yellow Flower Mound or Huanghuagang Park.
The Yunnan–Guangxi War was a war of succession fought for control of the Chinese Nationalist Party after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. It was launched by the Yunnan clique against the party leadership and the New Guangxi clique.
The historical Kuomintang socialist ideology is a form of socialist thought developed in mainland China during the early Republic of China. The Tongmenghui revolutionary organization led by Sun Yat-sen was the first to promote socialism in China.
The Republic of China (ROC) began as a country in mainland China. It was established after the 1911 Revolution,which overthrew the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial history. It was ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT) as a one-party state while headquartered in Nanjing from 1927 until its relocation to Taiwan on 7 December 1949,following its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War. The CCP proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1 October 1949,while the ROC retains control over the "Free Area" and the political status of Taiwan remains in dispute.
Luo Xianxiang (1890–1968) was a World War II Chinese general who served in the army of Chen Jiongming. He was a soldier,and at times,a regional government official. He established anti-corruption policies and conducted administrative and education reforms.
He Xiangning was a Chinese revolutionary,feminist,politician,painter,and poet. Together with her husband Liao Zhongkai,she was one of the earliest members of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement Tongmenghui. As Minister for Women's Affairs in Sun's Nationalist government in Guangzhou (Canton),she advocated equal rights for women and organized China's first rally for International Women's Day in 1924. After her husband's assassination in 1925 and Chiang Kai-shek's persecution of the Communists in 1927,she stayed away from party politics for two decades,but actively worked to organize resistance against the Japanese invasion of China.
Ye Ju (1881–1934),formerly romanized as Yeh Chü, was a Chinese Nationalist general and governor of Guangdong Province.
The July 15 Incident,known by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the July 15 counter-revolutionary coup,and as the Wuhan–Communist split by the Kuomintang (KMT),occurred on 15 July 1927. Following growing strains in the coalition between the KMT government in Wuhan and the CCP,and under pressure from the rival nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing,Wuhan leader Wang Jingwei ordered a purge of communists from his government in July 1927.
Xu Qian or George Hsu was a Chinese politician and jurist. He made important contribution to the judicial system of modern China.
The Tientsin Conference,beginning 10 November 1924,was a series of conferences between powerful Chinese warlords on the future government of China. It was hoped the result would be the reunification of the Beiyang government with the Kuomintang's rival government led by Sun Yat-sen in Canton and an end to the Warlord Era.
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