# Chungkuo Kuomintang
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 中國國民黨／中国国民党 (Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-kuo² Kuo²-min²-tang³.

### Proper noun

Chungkuo Kuomintang
* Synonym of Kuomintang
** 1933, Sun Yat-sen, His Political and Social Ideals: A Source Book‎, →OCLC, page 119:The CHUNGKUO KUOMINTANG or the Chinese Nationalist Party, was organized in August, 1912, and was reorganized in January, 1924.
** 1933, Contemporary Japan‎, volume 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 729:It is a group more properly called the Provisional Action Committee of the Chungkuo Kuomintang, built around Left-wing Kuomintang members and Right-wing Communists led by Teng Yen-ta and Tang Pin-shan respectively and claiming to stand between […]
** 1978, “August 1912-September 1912”, in Lo Hui-min, editor, The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912-1920‎, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:Later, in August 1912, the T'ung-meng hui was merged with three other political parties to form the Kuomintang, a forerunner of the Chungkuo Kuomintang or Nationalist Party, which came into being on 10 October 1919 and assumed power in Nanking in 1927.
** 1984, Witold Rodzinski, “China in the First Post-war Years, 1919–24”, in The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from 2000 B.C. to the Present‎, Fontana Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 280:Having been driven out of Canton in May 1918 by the Kwangsi militarists, Sun, refusing to give up his cause as lost, established in October 1919 the Chungkuo Kuomintang to replace the conspiratorial Komingtang (Revolutionary Party) he had set up in 1915. However, the Kuomintang was also a numerically small party, composed primarily of Sun's own personal followers of long standing, and its political influence remained quite limited.
** 2016 January 20, Matthew Strong, “KMT could drop ‘Chinese’ from name: youth group”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 28 March 2024, Society:On Monday, several prominent younger members of the party announced the formation of a new group, the “Cao Xie” or “Grassroots Association.” Among the reforms it proposed Wednesday, it suggested the party could consider changing its name by removing the word “Chinese” from its official name, which is “Chungkuo Kuomintang” (“Zhongguo Guomindang”) or “Chinese Nationalist Party.”
** 2017, WU,FENG-CHUNG [吳鳳章], “From Oppression to Embrace: I-Kuan Tao and Kuomintang [從壓迫到擁抱:一貫道與國民黨]”, in I-Kuan Tao College [一貫道天皇學院]‎, archived from the original on May 07, 2021, 外文摘要:This study mainly aims to explore the relationship between I-Kuan Tao (IKT) and Chungkuo Kuomintang (KMT, Chinese Nationalist Party) when IKT was politically suppressed and banned by Chungkuo KMT. After I-Kuan Tao was legalized, how has Chungkuo Kuomintang government continued to operate the relationship with I-Kuan Tao?
** 2024 January 15, Naomi Hellman, “The Kuomintang of China and Taiwanese identity: What’s in a name?”, in Radio Taiwan International‎, archived from the original on March 27, 2024, News‎:Note: The Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalist Party) is the shorter English name of the party. The full Chinese name is “Chungkuo Kuomintang” (the Kuomintang of China).
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chungkuo Kuomintang.

### Further reading

* Chungkuo Kuomintang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.