parties in Jinzhou during 1945-1949. The two were the Kuomintang and the Communists. The KMT, which is the Chinese Nationalist Party, was run by military and political leader Chiang Kai-shek,
Born in 1887, Chiang Kai-shek was the innate successor to Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang or Guomindang. Kai-shek would become an essential constituent of Chinese history in the 1900s. (Trueman) Chiang Kai-shek was born in the Chinese seaside province of Zhejiang. (“Chiang Kai-shek”) He was born the son of an affluent merchant of salt. (Fredriksen) However, Kai-shek was reared by his widowed mother, and with the necessary and pertinent standard Chinese
Cross-Strait Relations The Cross-Strait relations refer to the bitter and unstable relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. The term comes from the relationship that both China and Taiwan has had, physically across the Taiwanese Strait. The relationship between the countries has been filled with war, tension, and little contact. In the earliest of Taiwanese history, both nations fought to seek diplomatic control as the legitimate form of Chinese government (Lee)
In the World War II, Japan was defeated and was forced to abandon all the overseas dominions on 25th October 1945. Since then, Taiwan was turned over to Republic of China (ROC). Republic of China (ROC), also known as Kuomintang (KMT), which led by Chiang Kaishek and was identified as independence authority government of China by the nation community (Historical Development of Republic of China). However, due to the misrule led by KMT, the “2/28 incident”, had disappointed Taiwanese people. The incident
government. The Kuomintang While the Nationalists and Communists fought for the government of China, the Nationalists were still controlling Taiwan. Chen Yi, the governor-general of the KMT, was in charge of Taiwan until the KMT lost in the Civil War and Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the KMT, took over. After the KMT arrived, they confiscated all Japanese-owned factories and monopolized food and supplies, resulting in a shortage of goods in Taiwan. The KMT took the goods to China to sell them for a high
Part A: The Nationalist party went to Taiwan after they lost the Chinese civil and with them, they brought their ideas and through those ideas, they carried the ideology of Sun Yat-Sen's three fundamental principles of the people. This investigation investigates: Why were Sun Yat-Sen’s three principles of the people fully achieved after 1988? My investigation will focus on why it was achieved by analyzing the Three Principles and comparing them to the government that was established in Taiwan. The
The Martial Law was imposed in Taiwan in 1949 along with the Wartime Temporary Provisions and at the same time the Constitution was suspended (Hsiao and Hsiao, 2001: 4). Along came prohibition formation of new political parties, and it gave the secret police, which had wide-ranging powers to arrest anyone voicing criticism of government policy (International Committee for Human Rights in Taiwan, 1987: 3). Accordingly, the process of liberalization was long over due. The main aspiration of the Kuomintang