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kuomintang - 3 dictionary results

Kuo⋅min⋅tang

[kwoh-min-tang, -tahng; Chin. gwaw-min-dahng]
–noun
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.

Origin:
< Chin (Wade-Giles) kuo2min2tang3, (pinyin) guómín dǎng national people's party, equiv. to guó nation + mín people + dǎng party; cf. Tang, tong 2

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.


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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