.... A second puzzle addressed is that though party switching is expected to undermine party system stability, Taiwan shows that a country can have moderate levels of party switching but still feature a very stable party system. Party switching Taiwan Legislative politics Kuomintang (KMT) Democratic...

... Revolution 1966 76 Kuomintang Party KMT Ma Ying jeou Tuan Tuan giant panda sent to Taiwan Yuan Yuan giant panda sent to Taiwan Chiang Ching kuo Liu Caipei Taipei City Zoo Chen Shui pien Democratic Progressive Party DPP Taiwan Lien Chan Pan Wenshi Chang Jung kung Lee Tao sheng Chinese Communist...

... of nationalism in Singapore, the early films of Hou, the major figure of the Taiwanese New Cinema movement, have provocatively recast elements of Kuomintang (KMT)-led development and modernity. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the KMT’s emphasis on developing light industry, mechanizing agriculture...

... Military Prison Hu Ziying National Salvation Association Wang Yi Zhang Naiqi Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) state penal reformation drug offenders political offenders political indoctrination self-examination institutes It had been six months since Jiang Jieshi's April 12, 1927, launching...

...This chapter introduces the ethnicity, culture, and nationality of the Philippine Chinese, who are residents of the Philippines with Chinese ancestry. It explores how and why the Philippine Chinese became model Cold Warriors in correlation to their partnership with the Kuomintang (KMT...

...This chapter focuses on the practice of anticommunism. It covers the case studies of people affiliated with the local Kuomintang (KMT) as references for the activities of anticommunists. Anticommunism as a social phenomenon was a diverse repertoire of tactics that Chinese from different social...

... of Chinese Nationalism as claimed by the Chinese Nationalists, or Kuomintang (KMT). The chapter begins with an analysis of popular books on the history of Taiwan, including Faxian Taiwan (Discovering Taiwan) and Taiwan lishi tushuo (Illustrated History of Taiwan), and goes...

...This chapter looks at the implications of the presence of Nationalist Chinese (Kuomintang or KMT) forces in northern Burma. Forced out of China by the advancing Communist army, they created enormous difficulties for Burma in its relations with the PRC (People's Republic of China). Although...

...This chapter studies a series of angry telegrams pertaining to the Kuomintang (KMT) issue. Ambassador William Sebald reported that the KMT was a constant threat to security, since it creates an excuse for invasion by Communist China and detracts from the efforts of the Burmese Army to defeat...

...This chapter examines the roots of the May 30, 1925 incident in Shanghai in the power struggle in Kwantung Province. It was there that the heirs of Sun Yat-sen were struggling to control his Kuomintang Party and where the growing communist influence on the cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy led...

.... These events also overshadowed the domestic troubles in China including the factionalism at Kuomintang and the continued activities of communist bands. This chapter discusses the U.S. Navy's response to these Chinese problems. Adams Walter A Baker James China Communists Hawaiian Islands I Ping Kuomintang...

...The book begins by mapping out the postwar history of Taiwan cinema, from the Golden Age of commercial Taiwanese-language cinema (taiyupian) to films favoured by the Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalist Party), which looked at Taiwan from a Nationalist-oriented, anti-Communism Chinese...

... perceived national interests. The chapter discusses how Beijing competes with Taipei in education outreach to the Yunnanese Kuomintang community in Northern Thailand, and contextualizes the phenomenon of “re-Sinicization,” as well as pointing out some of the contestations against the Chinese government’s re...

... of the industrialized world was suffering from a severe depression, any nations that might otherwise have acted were too busy with their own problems. Japan declared Manchuria to be the independent state of Manchukuo, under Japanese suzerainty. aggressively Manchuria acquisition aggression Kuomintang This content...

...0 14 06 2001 The Chinese Communist Parry (CCP) was formally established in 1921 as the Chinese government was recovering from Japanese domination during World War I. In the midl 920s, the CCP cooperated with the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist Parry, but in 1927 started a civil war that raged...

... Kong extradition law “cataclysm ” Mao Zedong Cultural Revolution Red Guards Kuomintang I planned to write my memoir in Hong Kong, where I moved from the Berkeley Hills in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, but it was only a few years later that new events made clear to me what my approach to my...

... Yat-sen Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Nationalist Party Kuomintang A few weeks after being confronted by Hu Hu and agreeing to work for land reform, I stood in front of my dressing table. A girl soldier appeared in the mirror, gazing wistfully at me. She wore a pair of shapeless cotton...

... when nation-states, revolutionary fervour, and anticolonial activism took centre stage across China and India, the idea that connections between the two societies could remain purely ‘cultural’ became untenable. Cheena Bhavana Confucianism Kuomintang KMT Lin Sen Nationalists Santiniketan Andrews...

...Renegade Rhymes invites readers into Taiwan’s vibrant underground hip-hop scene to explore the social, cultural, and political dynamics of life in a post-authoritarian democracy. Beginning in the immediate aftermath of four decades of martial law (1949-1987) under the KMT (Kuomintang or Chinese...

... first turned autocratic, then tried to establish himself as emperor of a new dynasty, before his death in mid-1916. With Yuan gone, his generals turned on each other. In the South, Sun Yat-sen pulled together a new Guomindang (Kuomintang or Nationalist) party organization. With the help of Soviet...