Word: kuomintang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This dishonestly, said Fairbank, "is manifested in out favoring the Kuomintang government over the Communists while we were supposed to be acting the part of an impartial mediator...
...closest approach to a universally popular political figure. A stocky 58-year-old who looks like an American Indian and who loves bright neckties and ice cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that Chiang Kai-shek may succeed T. V. Soong as Premier, bring in Chang Chun as his deputy and administrator...
...Twenty of these members were to come from the Kuomintang, which is the Government party, and the remaining 20 from the opposition parties, namely the Communist Party, the Democratic League, the Youth Party and nonparty groups. The Communists claimed that they and the Democratic League must together have 14 members or they would not join at all. Why must 14 be considered the magic number? Because, according to the terms of the agreement, all important decisions must be taken by a two-thirds majority of its members. Now two-thirds of 40 means 27, and with a control...
...when Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang were anathema to most "foreigners," I supported them, for I felt the facts indicated they were improving the people's welfare. It was not until my last trip to China, in 1940-41, that I became convinced that the Kuomintang would never bring democracy and its benefits to the Chinese people. On the other hand, I was convinced as early as 1938 that the people in the Communist-controlled areas were benefiting by the social-economic-political pattern that was being developed there...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...