Guomindang

For others, control of a province was an end in itself, a means of securing material gains and power. The most extreme case of this was Yan Xi-shan, lord of Shanxi from 1911 until the fall of the Guomindang in 1949.

The delegates at this First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party resolved to fight alone, without attempting to make any alliance with Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang.

On 7 January 1979 J.P. Hu, Myra Roper and I arrived in Peking chasing an opportunity to investigate the re-education methods imposed by the Chinese Communist regime on high-ranking military and administrative personnel from the pre-1949 era. An opportunity to pursue this interesting question arose when J.P. re-established contact with his father, a former Guomindang official, after 26 years of silence. His father, imprisoned soon after Liberation for his alleged counterrevolutionary activities, had participated in a programme of re-education and had finally been released at the 1975 amnesty.

Chen's election as president in 2000 ended over 50 years of Guomindang (KMT) rule in Taiwan.