# Kuomintang
## English
### Alternative forms

* (sense 1): KMT (abbreviation)
* Guomindang
* Komintang
* Kuomingtang (misspelling)

### Etymology

c. 1912, from the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 國民黨 / 国民党 (Guómíndǎng), Wade–Giles: Kuo²-min²-tang³.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kuːəʊmɪnˈtaŋ/

### Proper noun

Kuomintang
* A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
** 1912 September 7, “The Passing of the Tungmenghui”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume CIV, number 2352, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 686, column 3:It is generally believed that the creation of the Kuomintang will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties. The Kuomintang holds itself out as the democratic party, and its support of the President will be tempered by the path his future actions take.
** 1916, F. L. Pratt, “CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1915”, in China Mission Year Book 1916‎, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, page 24:The trend of events from the founding of the Republic to the unseating of the Kuomintang members of the National Assembly in November, 1913, however, confirmed the belief held in many quarters that republicanism was not a suitable system of government for the Chinese in their present stage of political development.
** 1968, Daniel George Edward Hall, “Burma”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 4, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 442, column 2:U Nu's government was Socialist with a program of nationalization. But it had to fight for survival against almost universal disorder complicated by a Communist rebellion, a Karen rising, which was far more serious, and, in 1950, the arrival from Yünnan of General Li Mi's Kuomintang division after its rout by the Chinese Communists.
** 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 238:He drew lists of Party cadre members of both before and after forty-nine, and pored over the scant details of those entrusted with the takeover of big enterprises where technological know-how was required: in particular the Kiangnan shipyard, a massive affair from which the Kuomintang elements had repeatedly to be purged.
** 1983 December 4, “6.7 Million Voters Select 71 Legislators”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXIV, number 48, Taipei, page 1:The Kuomintang Party, after capturing 62 of the 71 seats in the Dec. 3 legislative elections, has retained control of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, the bastion of recovery, that it has held for the past 30 years.
** 1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 6:By 1927, these gangs had come to play a cardinal political role, serving as agents of the Kuomintang in dealing with unions, radicals, and other opponents of the regime.
** 1992 [1941 April 15], Xiaoping Deng, “The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government”, in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:If we say that the Communist Parties in West European countries are tainted with some undesirable traditions of the social-democratic parties, the Chinese Communist Party is more or less tainted with the undesirable traditions of the Kuomintang. The concept of “ruling the country by the party”, held by some comrades, is a manifestation in our Party of an abominable tradition of the Kuomintang.
** 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 203:Next door, you can't miss the Fushan Illuminated Wall, a huge sign with red Chinese characters on a white background declaring: "Sleep with one's sword ready." Its purpose was to brace the islands' Kuomintang troops and to warn off the Communist troops always watching from just across the waters.
** 2023 March 27, Chris Horton, “Taiwan’s Ex-President Heads to China in Historic and Closely Watched Visit”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27, Asia Pacific‎:In February, the newly elected mayor of Taipei, Chiang Wan-an, welcomed a delegation from the Shanghai branch of the Taiwan Affairs Office. Andrew Hsia, a Kuomintang vice chairman, went to China and met with Wang Huning and Song Tao, two key figures in Beijing’s Taiwan strategy.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kuomintang.

#### Synonyms

* Chungkuo Kuomintang

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Wilkinson, Endymion (2000) Chinese History: A New Manual‎, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xix-xx: “Some of the most familiar names in modern Chinese history are best known in English and other languages […] by their Wade Giles romanizations, for example, […] KMT (short form of Wade-Giles transcription of Kuomintang, i.e, Guomindang 國民黨, referred to as GMD).”

### Further reading

* “Kuomintang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* Kuomintang, Guomindang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* “Kuomintang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “Kuomintang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “Kuomintang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.