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FlipMoeJack
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Joined: 23 Jun 2002
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Location: New York |
Kuomintang = Sounds slightly like Camonna Tong
i was reading this book called 'Fear Nothing' by Dean Koontz when I came upon that term 'Kuomintang'. I decided to look it up and report back here. This is what Columbia Encyclopedia has to say:
"(kw´mntng´) (KEY) , [Chin.,=national people’s party]. Sung Chiao-jen organized this party in 1912 under the nominal leadership of Sun Yat-sen to succeed the Revolutionary Alliance. The original Kuomintang program called for parliamentary democracy and moderate socialism. In 1913, Yüan Shih-kai, the president of China, suppressed the Kuomintang although it held a majority in the first national assembly. Under Sun Yat-sen, the party established unrecognized revolutionary governments at Guanzhou in 1918 and 1921 and even sent a delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. Sun accepted aid from the USSR, and after 1922 many Comintern agents, notably Michael Borodin and V. K. Blücher, helped reorganize the Kuomintang. At the party congress in 1924 at Guangzhou, a coalition including Communists adopted Sun’s political theory, which included the Three People’s Principles (San Min Chu I), namely, nationalism, democracy, and the people’s livelihood. Sun thought that Chinese national reconstruction must follow a progression of stages: military government, tutelage under the Kuomintang, and popular sovereignty. 1
In 1926, Kuomintang general Chiang Kai-shek launched the Northern Expedition, advancing north from Guangzhou against the Beijing government. After halting temporarily in 1927, when the Communists were purged and the civil war between the two factions began, Kuomintang forces finally captured Beijing in 1928. The Kuomintang government at Nanjing received diplomatic recognition in 1928 and began the period of tutelage. After several Kuomintang military campaigns, the Communists were forced (1934–35) to withdraw from their bases in S and central China and establish new strongholds in the northwest. The Kuomintang continued to war against the Communists, ignoring the growing Japanese threat until N China was invaded by the Japanese in 1937. Although plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption, it controlled the Chinese central government until 1947, when it permitted some participation by minor liberal parties. Its control at the provincial and local level, however, was never complete. 2
Full-scale civil war, further complicated by inflation, characterized the years from 1945 to 1949. The power of the Kuomintang steadily declined, and by the end of 1949 the Communists controlled the mainland. The Kuomintang, forced from the mainland, remained in power in Taiwan, first under Chiang, then under his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Teng-hui. In 1991, Lee ended emergency rule, which had permitted the domination of Taiwan’s national assembly by mainland delegates elected in 1947. During the 1990s the major opposition party gained a number of seats in the assembly; in the 1996 presidential elections, President Lee, who was opposed by the Beijing government, won a landslide victory. In 1999 a split developed in the party when James Soong challenged the official candidate for the 2000 presidency race, Vice President Lien Chan, and was expelled; the opposition candidate, Chen Shui-bian, won the election, and Lien placed third behind Soong. Shortly thereafter Lee Teng-hui resigned as Kuomintang chairman. 3
See G. T. Yu, Party Politics in Republican China: The Kuomintang, 1912–1924 (1966); Hsieh Jan-chih, ed., The Kuomintang (1970). "
Wondering whether or not people are interested.
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The Omen
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The way I pronounce it sounds nothing like Comonna Tong. 
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Provis
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Let's have a staring contest. 
Ohh yea, that's interesting. 
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cfmdobbie
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I'm in...
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XeroX
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Sound stupid, bud wanted to use this smilie.
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Provis
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This post brought to you by the letters S-P-A-M.
 It's what's for.... wait what is it anyways.
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sauron38
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 Bad forum-goers...
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Provis
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Caught. I better apologize.
@sauron
Sorry, won't happen again.
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Hehe, I think he bought it.
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Remus
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Eh?, i don't think Kuomintang has anything related to Commona Tong or Morrowind.
The correct romanized spelling (under new pronunciation system for mandarin language) is Guomindang, not Kuomintang anymore - so basically the Columbia Encyclopedia is outdated.
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FlipMoeJack
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Thak I am wrong. Sorry. I assumed wrong.
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