Guomingdang

Guomingdang

1. Guomindang/ Kuomintang (KMT) (國民黨) By Ammar, Calvin, Rahel, Anna and Venus

2. Early Years Sun Yat Sen founded ‘Revive China Society’ in Hawaii on 24th November 1894. In 1905, he created the Tongmenghui who wanted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and to form a republic. They planned the Xinhai Revolution of 1911,and supported the founding of the Republic of China on 1st of January, 1912. Did not have support of the military and gave command to Yuan Shikai.

3. Ideology in China The Guomingdang was a nationalist revolutionary party.It was based on democratic centralism. Chiang Kai-shek (Leader after Sun) thought that warlords were old fashioned and backward. The party was anti-communist and anti-foreigner, mostly anti-American. They were trying to get rid of foreign influence in China so that she could once again develop into the great nation she once was.

4. Sun Yat-sen Sun is commonly known as ‘The Father of the Nation’. Sun was dead, by the time his party consolidated his power. He founded the Guomingdang.

5. Failure In 1913, Guomindang politicians in four provinces declared independence from Beijing. Yuan Shikai immediately sent his army to capture Nanjing, forcing Sun to flee to Japan.

6. Reforms By 1923 the parliamentary party had transformed into a political-military revolutionary moment as Sun realised the party needed to be more powerful in the military aspect. Sun gained support from southern warlords, and formed an alliance with the Chinese and Russian communists--of whom helped improve the party’s disipline, military training and tactics.

7. Chinese Civil War War between the kuomintang and communist party of China. War began in August 1927 Civil War was ceased in 1937 to counter the Japanese forces from World War 2 The conflict eventually resulted in two de facto states, the Republic of China(ROC) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China, both claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

8. Now The guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, advocated by Sun Yat-sen. Its party headquarters are located in Taipei. It is currently the ruling party in Taiwan, and holds the most seats in the Legislative Yuan. The KMT is a member of the International Democrat Union. Current president Ma Ying-jeou , elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, is the seventh KMT member to hold the office of the presidency.