Definition of Kuomintang

1. Noun. The political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan.

Exact synonyms: Guomindang
Generic synonyms: Party, Political Party

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kuomintang

Kumyk
Kun
Kuna
Kunas
Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen
Kundt's tube
Kung
Kung Fu
Kung futzu
Kunlun
Kunlun Mountains
Kunming
Kuntscher
Kuntscher nail
Kununurra
Kuomintang (current term)
Kuopio
Kupffer
Kupffer's cell
Kuppfer cell
Kur
Kura
Kura River
Kurd
Kurdestan
Kurdish
Kurdishness
Kurdistan
Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast
Kurdistan Labor Pary

Literary usage of Kuomintang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu, 1900-1993 by Li-Fu Ch'en, Hsu-hsin Chang, Ramon Hawley Myers (1994)
"(2) Loyal comrades of the Kuomintang were encouraged and had reason to ... (6) Control of the Kuomintang had reverted to loyal Kuomintang members and Wang ..."

2. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern by Branko Lazitch (1986)
"In January 1924 he was a member of the communist delegation to the first Kuomintang congress at which he was one of the CCP representatives to be elected to ..."

3. Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-Ngau by Kia-ngau Chang, Donald G. Gillin, Ramon Hawley Myers (1989)
"He tried, therefore, to restrain Ch'en Li-fu and the other Kuomintang "nationalists," as Chang Kia-ngau called them (which suggests that Chang considered ..."

4. Journal of the American Asiatic Association by American Asiatic Association (1916)
"The unfortunate murder of one of the Kuomintang leaders upon the eve of the ... The Kuomintang included many of the brightest and most promising of young ..."

5. Documents of Dissent: Chinese Political Thought Since Mao by James Chester Cheng (1980)
"It is unlikely that Kuomintang agents forged this document for propaganda purposes. The pamphlet contains a rather unfavorable reference to Kuomintang rule: ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... the Publicity Board and the Service Department of the Kuomintang Central Headquarters, the Kuomintang Headquarters of the Municipality of Chungking, ..."

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