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Kuomintang

2007-03-28T02:13:00Z

Chiang:

The '''Kuomintang of China''' ('''KMT'''), also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a conservative party currently active in the [[Republic of China]] on [[Taiwan]]. It supports pan-[[Chinese nationalism]], [[democracy]], [[Chinese reunification]], and [[capitalism]] under the doctrine of the [[Three Principles of the People]].

In 1912 the Qing dynasty was overthrown by the [[Revolutionary Alliance]], led by a doctor named [[Sun Yat-sen]] who had been living in the United States. Perhaps inspired by what he saw in America, Sun led the Nationalist Party known as the '''Guomindang''' ('''KMT'''), to become the first leader of the new republic of China. Sun quickly turned over power (after only 6 weeks) to [[Yuan Shiakaj]], who then ruled as a military dictator. China’s GDP at this time accounted for 27 percent of the world’s total. By 1923, the percentage dropped, but still was as high as 12 percent. In 1949, when the CCP took control, the percentage was 5.7, but in 2003, China’s GDP was less than 4 percent of the world’s total.

When Yuan died, however, civil war broke out and warlords ruled amid chaos. The opium trade returned, irrigation failed, and [[World War I]] added to the general misery. Millions of peasants died due to a famine during the war. Central rule was elusive.

Nationalist China sided with the Allies during World War I, and offered some limited assistance. Kuomintang was hoping to obtain return of land that Germany controlled in China. Instead, the Treaty of Versailles gave that land to Japan. Feeling betrayed, the Chinese angrily demonstrated against that decision with the [[May Fourth Movement]], which Gongchandang supported.

[[Communism]] began to creep into China, and some abandoned Sun Yat-sen’s vision of [[democracy]]. [[Mao Zedong]], a [[Marxist]], founded the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) in 1921 in Shanghai. Sun himself then accepted Soviet Communist Party General Secretary [[V. I. Lenin]]’s offer of receiving Comintern military advisors in China.

After Sun died in 1925, he was replaced as head of the Nationalist Party by a businessman named [[Jiang Jieshi]] who opposed communism and even executed communist leaders in April 1927. That destroyed the CCP, and Jiang became president of the Nationalist Republic of China in 1928. Britain and the United States recognized his government.

Civil war broke out between the CCP and Gongchandang in 1930. Mao Zedong’s trained peasants in guerrilla warfare. But Jiang’s army surrounded the Mao’s, and in 1934 forced the Mao’s army to go on the [[Long March]], which was a 6,000-mile retreat back to northwestern China. Few made it back alive, and the episode proved to be the moment when the CCP was decisively and permanently defeated.

Meanwhile an aggressive [[Japan]] invaded [[Manchuria]], an area of northeast China rich in iron and coal deposits needed by Japanese industry. This Manchurian invasion was the beginning of [[World War II]] in Asia. Japan followed this with an invasion of China in 1937 along the Yangtze River. The Chinese civil war stopped temporarily to defend against the Japanese invasion.

The Nationalist Chinese led by [[Chiang Kai-shek]] received aid from the United States to fight against the Japanese, but in reality they needed that money to prepare for civil war against the communists led by Mao Zedong (also known as “Mao-Tse-tung”). After the war, the communists (from the northwest) attempted to conquer the Nationalists (from the southwest). Civil war raged from 1946 to 1949. Due to many desertions by soldiers from the Nationalist army to the communists, Mao prevailed by October 1949. Mao had promised land for the peasants and renamed the country the People’s Republic of China. Jiang fled with Nationalists to the island of Formosa, and continued to claim sovereignty over all of China, a stance which the United States supported until Jimmy Carter broke relations with Free China and established them with Red China in 1979. By February 1950, the communists in the Soviet Union signed a friendship pact with the Chinese communists. Fear gripped the free world.

==Further readint==
*Anne W. Carroll, [http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/FR89102.TXT ''Who Lost China''], 1996.
*[http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:6H382o49RFkJ:etd-db.uno.edu/theses/available/etd-12092004-104621/unrestricted/2004_ma_adams_tom.pdf+%22eduard+mark%22%2B%22san+fransisco%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 ''The Trial of Harry Dexter White: Soviet Agent of Influence''], Tom A. Adams, December 2004.
*[http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-30/25242.html ''On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party''], The Epoch Times, 2005.

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Jiang Jieshi

2007-03-28T02:12:09Z

Chiang:

Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) lived from 1887 to 1975. He was a Chinese businessman who lead the [[Nationalist Party]] after [[Sun Yixian]] died. He converted to Christianity after marrying [[Soong May-ling]] and fiercely opposed [[Communism]] and even executed communist leaders. This destroyed the [[Chinese Communist Party]], which never recovered. Jiang became president of the [[Republic of China]] in 1928, and his Nationalist Party continues to administer the entire territory of China except for some small areas ruled by Communist Party holdouts.

In addition to being a government leader, Jiang is well known by Chinese as an excellent poet. He wrote a poem expressing exultation after his victory over the Communist Party, in 1928:

The yellow crane has long since gone away,<br>
All that here remains is Yellow Crane Tower.<br>
The yellow crane once gone does not return,<br>
White clouds drift slowly for a thousand years.

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Kuomintang

2007-03-28T02:11:07Z

Chiang:

The '''Kuomintang of China''' ('''KMT'''), also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a conservative party currently active in the [[Republic of China]] on [[Taiwan]]. It supports pan-[[Chinese nationalism]], [[democracy]], [[Chinese reunification]], and [[capitalism]] under the doctrine of the [[Three Principles of the People]].

In 1912 the Qing dynasty was overthrown by the [[Revolutionary Alliance]], led by a doctor named [[Sun Yat-sen]] who had been living in the United States. Perhaps inspired by what he saw in America, Sun led the Nationalist Party known as the '''Gongchandang''' ('''KMT'''), to become the first leader of the new republic of China. Sun quickly turned over power (after only 6 weeks) to [[Yuan Shiakaj]], who then ruled as a military dictator. China’s GDP at this time accounted for 27 percent of the world’s total. By 1923, the percentage dropped, but still was as high as 12 percent. In 1949, when the CCP took control, the percentage was 5.7, but in 2003, China’s GDP was less than 4 percent of the world’s total.

When Yuan died, however, civil war broke out and warlords ruled amid chaos. The opium trade returned, irrigation failed, and [[World War I]] added to the general misery. Millions of peasants died due to a famine during the war. Central rule was elusive.

Nationalist China sided with the Allies during World War I, and offered some limited assistance. Kuomintang was hoping to obtain return of land that Germany controlled in China. Instead, the Treaty of Versailles gave that land to Japan. Feeling betrayed, the Chinese angrily demonstrated against that decision with the [[May Fourth Movement]], which Gongchandang supported.

[[Communism]] began to creep into China, and some abandoned Sun Yat-sen’s vision of [[democracy]]. [[Mao Zedong]], a [[Marxist]], founded the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) in 1921 in Shanghai. Sun himself then accepted Soviet Communist Party General Secretary [[V. I. Lenin]]’s offer of receiving Comintern military advisors in China.

After Sun died in 1925, he was replaced as head of the Nationalist Party by a businessman named [[Jiang Jieshi]] who opposed communism and even executed communist leaders in April 1927. That destroyed the CCP, and Jiang became president of the Nationalist Republic of China in 1928. Britain and the United States recognized his government.

Civil war broke out between the CCP and Gongchandang in 1930. Mao Zedong’s trained peasants in guerrilla warfare. But Jiang’s army surrounded the Mao’s, and in 1934 forced the Mao’s army to go on the [[Long March]], which was a 6,000-mile retreat back to northwestern China. Few made it back alive, and the episode proved to be the moment when the CCP was decisively and permanently defeated.

Meanwhile an aggressive [[Japan]] invaded [[Manchuria]], an area of northeast China rich in iron and coal deposits needed by Japanese industry. This Manchurian invasion was the beginning of [[World War II]] in Asia. Japan followed this with an invasion of China in 1937 along the Yangtze River. The Chinese civil war stopped temporarily to defend against the Japanese invasion.

The Nationalist Chinese led by [[Chiang Kai-shek]] received aid from the United States to fight against the Japanese, but in reality they needed that money to prepare for civil war against the communists led by Mao Zedong (also known as “Mao-Tse-tung”). After the war, the communists (from the northwest) attempted to conquer the Nationalists (from the southwest). Civil war raged from 1946 to 1949. Due to many desertions by soldiers from the Nationalist army to the communists, Mao prevailed by October 1949. Mao had promised land for the peasants and renamed the country the People’s Republic of China. Jiang fled with Nationalists to the island of Formosa, and continued to claim sovereignty over all of China, a stance which the United States supported until Jimmy Carter broke relations with Free China and established them with Red China in 1979. By February 1950, the communists in the Soviet Union signed a friendship pact with the Chinese communists. Fear gripped the free world.

==Further readint==
*Anne W. Carroll, [http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/FR89102.TXT ''Who Lost China''], 1996.
*[http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:6H382o49RFkJ:etd-db.uno.edu/theses/available/etd-12092004-104621/unrestricted/2004_ma_adams_tom.pdf+%22eduard+mark%22%2B%22san+fransisco%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 ''The Trial of Harry Dexter White: Soviet Agent of Influence''], Tom A. Adams, December 2004.
*[http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-30/25242.html ''On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party''], The Epoch Times, 2005.

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Great Wall Of China

2007-03-28T02:06:53Z

Chiang:

The Great Wall of China spans about 1,500 miles in northern [[China]]. Work on building it was started under the rule of Shih. Interestingly, the Great Wall did not keep barbarians out of China. Invaders merely bribed their way across. Most of the current wall was actually built during the [[Ming Dynasty]].

[[Image:great_wall_of_china.jpg]]

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Taiwan

2007-03-20T12:52:17Z

Chiang:

'''Taiwan''' (previously known as '''Formosa''') is an island nation in East Asia and has served as the seat of the [[Republic of China]] (Free China) since 1949. Known for its natural beauty, the country is 245 miles long and 89 miles wide, with a steep central mountain range and plains on the west coast.

==History==
Taiwan was governed by Japan from 1894 to 1945. Unlike Japan's occupation of other Asian areas, Nipponese presence in Taiwan was largely beneficial. This civilizing effect of Japanese occupation allowed the people of Taiwan to make great social and technological advances.

==Politics==
The Taiwanese people enjoy a free market economy, while the democratically elected government provides freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and universal health care. Nevertheless, the Republic of China has been unsuccessful in its repeated attempts to rejoin the United Nations. During the Cold War, the Republic of China was recognized by most of the world as the sole legitimate government of China and a bastion of freedom against Communist oppression on the mainland. However, the Communist bloc gained enough votes in 1971 to kick Free China out of the UN and the Western bloc derecognized Free China en masse. Under the Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter, the United States broke relations with Free China and established them with Communist China in 1979. In the United States, both Democrat and Republican administrations have blocked the efforts of the Taiwanese people to seek Taiwan’s entry on the world stage and refuse to use its official name - the Republic of China -- in official contexts.

==Chinese Claim==
Though Taiwan posesses all of the characteristics of a sovereign nation, the [[People's Republic of China]] makes a claim to all of Taiwan's territory, and asserts that Taiwan is merely a territory of the Communist China. In fact, the Republic of China, which governs Taiwan, was founded in 1912 and predates the Communist regime. It was in 1949 when the Communists, funded by Soviet Russia, succeeded in rebellion that the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan.