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2 days ago · The country was in English known at the time as "the Republic of China" or simply "China". In China today, the period from 1912 to 1949 is often called the "Republican Era" ( simplified Chinese: 民国时期; traditional Chinese: 民國時期 ), because from the Chinese government's perspective the ROC ceased to exist in 1949.
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1 day ago · Taiwan. T'ao-yüan, Taiwan. Taiwan, island in the western Pacific Ocean that lies roughly 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of southeastern China. It is approximately 245 miles (395 km) long (north-south) and 90 miles (145 km) across at its widest point. Taipei, in the north, is the seat of government of the Republic of China (ROC; Nationalist ...
2 days ago · China, country of East Asia. It is the largest of all Asian countries. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, it covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth, and it is almost as large as the whole of Europe. China is also one of the most populous countries in the world, rivaled only by India, which, according to ...
3 days ago · Originally a revolutionary league working for the overthrow of the Chinese monarchy, the Nationalists became a political party in the first year of the Chinese republic (1912). The party participated in the first Chinese parliament, which was soon dissolved by a coup d’état (1913).
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- What is the Nationalist Party?The Nationalist Party is a political party that governed all or part of mainland China from 1928 to 1949. It subsequently ruled Taiwan under Chiang...
- Who founded the Nationalist Party?The Nationalist Party was founded as a political party by Song Jiaoren in 1912. After Song’s assassination in 1913, Sun Yat-sen led the party throu...
- What does the Nationalist Party stand for?When it controlled mainland China, from 1928 through the late 1940s, the Nationalist Party’s program rested on Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of th...
1 day ago · On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) was founded in mainland China by the victorious communists; several months before, Chiang Kai-shek had established a provisional ROC capital in Taipei and moved his Nanjing-based government there after fleeing Chengdu. Under Nationalist rule, the mainlanders dominated the government ...
3 days ago · Historians typically consider the following dynasties to have unified China proper: the Qin dynasty, the Western Han, the Xin dynasty, the Eastern Han, the Western Jin, the Sui dynasty, the Tang dynasty, the Wu Zhou, the Northern Song, the Yuan dynasty, the Ming dynasty, and the Qing dynasty.
4 days ago · Alternative Names of China. 1.Chixian Shenzhou (the Sacred Earth and Divine Land) In the Chinese historical book Shiji-Biographies of Mencius and Xunqing, there was a man named Yanyan in the Qi State in the Warring States Period (475-221BC) who said that China was Chixian Shenzhou (the sacred earth and divine land).
