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the dominant political party of China from 1928 to 1949, founded chiefly by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and led from 1925 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek; the dominant party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1949.
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< Chinese (Wade-Giles) kuo2min2tang3, (pinyin) guómín dǎng national people's party, equivalent to guó nation + mín people + dǎng party; compare Tang, tong2
< Chinese (Wade-Giles) kuo2min2tang3, (pinyin) guómín dǎng national people's party, equivalent to guó nation + mín people + dǎng party; compare Tang, tong2
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Kuomintang
1912, Chinese nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-Sen, led after 1925 by Chiang Kai-Shek; from kuo "nation, nationalist" + min "people" + tang "party."
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Kuomintang [(kwoh-min-tahng, kwoh-min-tang)]A Chinese nationalist (see nationalism) political party founded by Sun Yat-sen, which gained control of China in the early twentieth century. Later, under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, it was defeated by the Chinese communists and became the ruling party of Taiwan, the island to which Chiang and his supporters had fled.
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