Word: kuomintang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kuomintang (National Party) labeled Wu's charges "malicious," and expelled him from the party. ¶ The National Assembly asked the Central government to recall the former governor from Evanston, 111., where he is living in self-imposed exile, to Formosa to stand trial on charges of "maladministration" during his service as Formosa's governor...
Only a year ago, K. C. Wu was Nationalist China's bright, particular star. He was an outspoken advocate of democracy among the Kuomintang's quarreling cliques, an honest official among many who were not. Chiang Kai-shek himself had picked able Administrator Wu as the governor of Formosa...
...party rule: the Kuomintang is financed, not by party members, but from the government treasury. Its methods "are entirely devoted to the purpose of perpetuating its own power...
Both encouragement and warning came from an invited guest. Dr. Hu Shih, 62-year-old ex-diplomat and philosopher, is China's most honored scholar in a civilization which accords scholars a respect akin to reverence. Hu Shih has always refused to join the Kuomintang, has often been regarded as a possible rallying point by intellectuals among the 13 million overseas Chinese who were both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Hu Shih disowned such disciples. He had come all the way from New York (where he has lived since 1949), he said, because "I feel it a moral obligation...
...Shih had lingering misgivings. He deplored the Kuomintang's insistence on one party, its rigid repression of criticism ("On the whole there is much more freedom here than on the mainland, but I would like to see still more freedom of the press and person in Taiwan"), on its authoritarian "obey the leader" doctrine. That Hu Shih could say these things when and where he did was some testimonial to Formosa's freedom, and one reason he had made his choice. The problem was to extend that freedom to less distinguished critics...