World War II and battled Mao Zedong and his communist forces with his party the Kuomintang (the Nationalists). As an influential member of the Kuomintang and close alley of Sun Yat-sen‚ the first president of the Republic of China and founder of the Kuomintang party‚ he sought out to mainly expel Chinese communists and regain unification in China‚ Chiang Kai-shek took over Sun Yat-sen’s place as the leader of the Kuomintang in 1928 when Sun Yat-sen was robbed of cancer. Chiang Kai-shek focused on driving
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The Long March took place from October 1934 - October 1935. It meant that communism was not completely wiped out by the Kuomintang‚ that the people of China learnt about communism and supported the communists‚ that the Kuomintang got control of the south of china and most of the communists died from illness‚ exposure and Kuomintang attacks. At the time it was significant because otherwise all the communists would have been annihilated. Its effects were not seen immediately but in the short term
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China‚ officially the People’s Republic of China‚ is a country located in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country‚ with a population of over 1.3 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China‚ with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces‚ five autonomous regions‚ four direct-controlled municipalities‚ and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions . The PRC also claims Taiwan – which
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Book Review Author: Jung Chang Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Publication: Simon and Schuster‚ London‚ 1991 1. Main Thesis In Wild Swans‚ Jung Chang describes the life of three generations of woman in her family. Beginning in the year 1909 and ending in present time‚ it gives an insight into almost eighty years of the cultural history of China. Jung Chang has said in a interview that her intention in writing Wild Swans was to show how the Chinese people‚ and in particular the women
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The political power struggle in China is a phenomenon that has been occurring for centuries. Since the beginning of its political history in 221 BC‚ China had been ruled by a dynastic governing system. This system was based off of the lineage of power passed down in a family or line and caused unrest due to its lack of democracy years before the issues leading up to the war began. This age-old political structure was one of the various factors that played into the eruption that would become the
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Entry: Sun Yet-Sen Sun Yet-Sen was known as a political and a revolutionary in Chinese history. He is considered to be the co-founder of the Kuomintang and is said to be the father of modern China. Sun Yet-Sen was of the major contributors in the effort to abolish the Qing Dynasty and served as the first president of the Republic of China in 1912. His doctrine was written in “The Three Principles of The People”‚ which was a philosophical combination of democracy‚ socialism‚ and nationalism. Although
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praised for his military accomplishments during the overturning of the former government of the Kuomintang and the war against Japanese invasion‚ opinions differ when his ruling of China after 1949 comes into discussion. In some readings‚ he is most heavily criticized for the cruelty and aggressiveness he had posed on the Chinese people- to the extent that some even question whether overturning the Kuomintang was truly liberation for the Chinese people after all. In other readings‚ Mao Zedong is still
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leaders of autonomous armies fought for power” (Dreyer 1). Kuomintang Party stood against the Communist Party and waged a massive civil war mainly in Northeast part of China‚ “ending only with the victory of communists on the mainland in 1949” (Dreyer 1). In the middle of the civil war‚ the aggression of the Japanese dragged China into the tragedy of the Second World War. Chiang Kai-Shek‚ as a generalissimo‚ is also the head of Kuomintang Party and ruler of Nationalist
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China overthrew the last dynasty in 1911‚ and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949. After the defeat of the Empire of Japan in World War II‚ the Communist Party defeated the nationalist Kuomintang in mainland China and established the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949‚ while the Kuomintang relocated the ROC government to its present capital of Taipei. Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978‚ China has become the world’s fastest-growing major economy. As of
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Mao’s father decided he was old enough‚ he arranged a marriage for Mao. Mao did not accept it and instead left his family to go to a school in the capital. When the Xinhua Revolution began in China‚ Mao took part in the Revolutionary Army and the Kuomintang. The army eventually overthrew the monarchy in 1912 and then founded the Republic of China. After this‚ Mao began to have a great interest in the political and cultural changes happening all over his country.
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