Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese politician,revolutionary,and military commander who was the leader of the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party and commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) from 1926,and leader of the Republic of China (ROC) in mainland China from 1928. After Chiang was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949,he continued to lead the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan until his death in 1975. He was considered the legitimate head of China by the United Nations until 1971.
Rosamond Soong Ch'ing-ling was a Chinese political figure. She was the wife of Sun Yat-sen,therefore known by Madame Sun Yat-sen and the "mother of modern China." A member of the Soong family,she and her family played a significant role in shaping the Republic of China. As a prominent leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT),she founded the Revolutionary Committee of the KMT. She entered the Communist government in 1949,and was the only female,non-Communist head of state of the People's Republic of China. She was named Honorary President of the People's Republic of China and admitted to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),a few weeks before her death in 1981.
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 German Empire established diplomatic relations with the Republic of China in October 1913. After World War I and the creation of the Weimar Republic,Germany followed a policy of friendship towards China. Nazi Germany and the Nationalist government of the Republic of China maintained bilateral relations between 1933 and 1941. The Chinese Nationalists sought German military and economic support to help them consolidate control over factional warlords and resist Japanese imperialism. Germany sought raw materials such as tungsten and antimony from China. During the mid-1930s,thousands of Chinese soldiers were trained by German officers and German economic investment made its way into China. However,Joachim von Ribbentrop strongly favored an alliance with Japan over one with China,and starting with the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact,Germany began to realign its East Asia policy. After Japan invaded China in 1937 and Ribbentrop became Foreign Minister the following year,German aid to China was cut off. In July 1941,Nazi Germany severed relations with Nationalist China and transferred their recognition to the Japanese-controlled Wang Jingwei regime. Nonetheless,China did not officially declare war on the Axis Powers until after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Liu Chi-wen,was a known follower of Dr. Sun Yat-sen,the founder of the Chinese Republic and the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). He was educated in Japan,at the London School of Economics and at Cambridge University.
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 Kuomintang (KMT) is a Chinese political party that ruled mainland China from 1927 to 1949 prior to its relocation to Taiwan as a result of the Chinese Civil War. The name of the party translates as "China's National People's Party" and was historically referred to as the Chinese Nationalists. The party was initially founded on 23 August 1912,by Sun Yat-sen but dissolved in November 1913. It reformed on October 10,1919,again led by Sun Yat-sen,and became the ruling party in China. After Sun's death,the party was dominated from 1927 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek. After the KMT lost the civil war with the Chinese Communist Party in 1949,the party retreated to Taiwan and remains a major political party of the Republic of China based in Taiwan.
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.
Changzhou Island,formerly known in English as Dane or Dane's Island,is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Guangzhou's Huangpu District,although the historic Huangpu Island was nearby Pazhou,which forms part of Haizhu District.
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.
Xu Qian or George Hsu was a Chinese politician and jurist. He made important contribution to the judicial system of modern China.
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