kuomintang

Most of the Communist elites were Kuomintang elites, so the lack of surname distribution change doesn't really surprise me.

Against this background, the Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek took the initiative to launch an armed attack on the Communist Party.

The Kuomintang were our allies in WW2, and were forced to retreat to Taiwan in 1949.

Therefore, the Kuomintang was very unpopular, and the people's hearts turned to the Communist Party.

The 14K triad was originally founded by former Kuomintang generals as an anti-communist action group.

If you include unreconstructed Taiwanese kuomintang, and their view about chinese unification there are surprises in plenty for who supports whom.

China wants the Taiwanese ruling party, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to lose, and it wants the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) to win.

The party in question is the Kuomintang (KMT), who fought against the CCP in the civil war and founded the Taiwanese state.

Moreover, I doubt that the use of Mandarin was widespread in Taiwan before 1949 when Kuomintang occupied Taiwan.

The Kuomintang took huge amounts of priceless Chinese artifacts when they fled to Taiwan, which are now in the National Palace Museum[1].

The Taiwanese regime is a remnant of the original Republic of China established in 1914, and Kuomintang is one of the original democratic parties of that republic.

One thing I learned recently was that when the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan, they took a vast trove of priceless Chinese antiquities with them.

Eight of the so called "Ten Marshals of People's Republic of China"[0] were commissioned officers in the Kuomintang.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang's post-war activities of taking over enemy property exacerbated the Kuomintang's corruption, which was regarded as "robbery" by public opinion, and the issuance of a large amount of currency led to serious inflation.

Tan, “Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century,” page 202, explains the philosophy of the Kuomintang leader Hu Han-min: “An individual is granted rights because he is a member of society and his community life requires such rights.

A brief hunt for a description of the situation in Taiwan led me to this[1]: "Fast forward to the present day, and the energy battle lines have not much shifted, with most pro-nuclear advocates also representing the Kuomintang (KMT), the party of Chiang Kai-shek and whose candidate drew just 39% of the vote in the 2020 presidential race.

In their mind, the Chinese civil war never ended and that island is the last bastion of the Kuomintang.

Mao Zedong actually served as the Director of Propaganda for the Kuomintang.

It's personal/relative, but I'd consider both the Korean and Vietnamese wars to be China's proxy war after their CCP war with the Kuomintang.