Kuomintang Flashcards
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KMT Origings
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Tongmenghui
- September 1905 - United several revolutionary groups in China and Japan into the Tongmenhui/Revolutionary Alliance
- 1906 – Tongmenghui reaches 10,000 members
- 1906-8 – Staged five failed uprisings
- 1908-11 – Tongmenghui had a 75% share in major anti-Qing uprisings
- August 1912 – Tongmenghui and other groups combine to form the Kuomintang
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Sun Yat Sen role
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- “The vision of Sun Yat-sen…popularized the idea that revolution and an end to Qing rule were the keys to modernizing China.” Ryan
- The final collapse of the Qing dynasty was to a considerable extent inspired by a revolutionary from Guandong named Sun Yat-sen.” Edwin Moise
- In America when revolution happened; found out from local newspaper
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TPP - nationalism
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minzu
- freedom from imperialist domination
- “our lack of unity is caused by our lack of national consciousness”
- “The times are critical, for there is a danger of racial destruction. Unite the four hundred millions and save the nation through nationalism!”
- Feb 1914.— > Sun Yat-sen secures a ¥1.5 million loan by pledging that all Chinese industrial development will be co-financed by Japanese capital - many of Sun’s followers fall away
- spring 1914 > ~Sun Yat-sen proposes a full military alliance and customs union with Japan in a bid for suppor
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TPP - democracy
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minquan
- Western constitutional government
- “Inasmuch as democracy is the political tendency of the day, China should also advance toward it”
- a. First, the period of military unification of the country, during which the army would rule.
- b. Then, the period of party tutelage, during which the KMT party would educate the people on matters about democracy, and would appoint trained men to help in local self-rule.
- c. Lastly, the period of constitutional democracy, when the government would have the five power branches and four people’s rights mentioned above functioning efficiently.
- Before the 1920s, Sun Yat-sen specifically laid down that the first stage would last for 3 years and the second 6 years. In 1924, however, he no longer set specific lengths for each.
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TPP - people’s livelihood
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- The government would also regulate and control the flow of money in the country,
- equalization of land rights
- Through state-planning, the development of industry would progress smoothly and bring benefits to all the people
- All these social measures were to be carried out peacefully and gradually through government laws rather than through violent class struggle as Communism advocated.
