... the intellectual youths. Only as nationalists first and Communists second, were the Communists willing to join the KMT (Kuomintang) as individuals in order to take an active part in the national revolution. In a span of five years, the KMT-CCP alliance had contributed to the consolidation of the revolutionary base...

...- and Chinese-language primary sources and materials published in Malaysia, Singapore, Britain, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan. The authors' exposition of the Malayan Kuomintang's (KMT) role as an agent of China-centered nationalism and transmitter of Chinese cultural values in Malaya...

...Dominic Sy Diasporic Cold Warriors is a well-researched and insightful book that has much to offer scholars studying a variety of topics—anticommunism, the Chinese diaspora, the Cold War, the KMT, and Philippine politics. Given the recent resurgence of both paranoid anticommunism...

...). Hood's objective, which he states in the preface to this book, is to assess the ruling Nationalist Party's (Kuomintang or KMT) role in the democratization of the Republic BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1059 of China (Taiwan). He notes that the Kuomintang's reputation is "marred by ineptitutde and by brutal acts...

.... Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. xiii, 341 pp. Maps, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $14.00 Much Western writing about the Kuomintang/Communist (KMT/CCP) Alliance (19231927) against the warlords has come under the influence of the Trotskyist (or more correctly, Marxist-populist...

... of the KMT armies in the First Northern Expedition, and the failures of the Communist attempts to capture large urban industrial cities are most important. With the reorganization of the KMT along Bolshevik Party lines in 1924, two new major institutions were created. One of these was the Whampoa Military...

.... The authors' exposition of the Malayan Kuomintang's (KMT) role as an agent of China-centered nationalism and transmitter of Chinese cultural values in Malaya is particularly effective in three areas in its examination of the social backgrounds of the Malayan KMT leadership and ideological factionalism within...

... by order of the KMT headquarters. 4 At first, Chiang still hoped that compromise might have been reached through the mediation of Chang Ching-chiang. As the opening of the Second National Congress of the KMT was drawing near, all hope of compromise vanished. Chiang, though exonerated from attack...

... of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the mainland and the Kuomintang (KMT) after its escape to Taiwan. By comparing the CCP's activities in Sunan—China's most affluent and industrialized region when the CCP arrived in Shanghai in 1949—to the KMT's after its retreat to Taiwan, Strauss constructs a plausible...

... ruling elite established "an inhibited political center" of authoritarianism and highly limited democracy "committed to promoting full democracy but without a timetable" (p. 8) in contrast to the "uninhibited political center" established by the People's Republic. Despite the KMT's undeniable...

... that the Malayan KMT should be viewed as a Malayanoriented movement by virtue of its physical location, its Malayan-domiciled leadership's intellectual and cultural contributions to the Malayan Chinese community (p. 235), as well as its role in the formation of the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) (p. 234...

... of the Kuomintang (KMT) Third Campaign and partly from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Before the opening of the Congress, the CCP Central Committee had already prepared five draft resolutions to be submitted to the Congress for adoption. The "Draft Resolutions for the First National Soviet Congress...

... sources, Mattlin illustrates in great detail how the formal reforms have not brought about an equal degree of transformation in practice, or in political culture or psychology. He traces this to the legacy in part of Chinese tradition, but more importantly to the KMT's rule. The KMT left an institutional...

.... However, I must take exception to his charge that Hsu's treatment of the Republican era as following the KMT party line. My objection is based on two reasons. First, this appears to me an unfair evaluation of Hsu and his analysis of the political history of 20th-century China, as the work itself clearly...

... flouting of parliamentary due process by Taiwan's ruling party, the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT), in its efforts to push a major trade deal with China through the legislature. Indeed, on Monday, March 17, legislators from the KMT reneged on a June 2013 agreement with the opposition party...

.... As the Yunnanese refugees did not have permission from the Burmese government to reside in that country, they moved on to the mountain areas of Shan and Kachin States in the initial stages. Among these refugees, a group of stragglers from the Nationalist army (Kuomintang, or KMT) and local self-defense guards...

... discussions of 1925, arising from fears that the Communists might gain power in the KMT in the future. From this valid argument rises the invalid one that these positions gave the Communists actual control of the KMT. For examples, see Tsou, p. 158; Yang Yu-chʻiung, Chung-kuo cheng-tang shih [History...

... uses of the past” (2). His research underscores the role played by Taiwan's two major political parties, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Kuomintang (KMT), in contesting and negotiating historical memories. Indigenous history, Japanese colonialism, nationalist authoritarianism, war memories...

... representatives were forced to retire, and discuss the New Party's split from the KMT, but not the 1996 presidential election. Democratic transition in most countries either occurs as the result of an economic or military crisis in which the previous regime collapses, or, as happened in most of Eastern Europe...

... percent of the harvest. He studied at Peking National University, and later at the University of Berlin under land economist Adolph Damasche. In 1932 Hsiao drafted a land policy for the KMT to use in administering the land recovered from the Communists in Kiangsi. He helped establish a consulting...