Chiang Kai-shek
1887–1975)Chinese nationalist statesman; president of China (1928–38; 1943–49) and later president of the nationalist Republic of China in Taiwan (Formosa) (1950–75). Although he never succeeded in ...
National Government of the Republic of China
(1928–37)A government established in Nanjing, after the successful Northern Expedition had brought the Guomindang and the National Revolutionary Army into control of substantial parts of China. Led ...
Sino-Japanese War
(1894–95)War fought between China and Japan. After Korea was opened to Japanese trade in 1876, it rapidly became an arena for rivalry between the expanding Japanese state and neighbouring China, of ...
United Front
The second coalition between the Guomindang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as other nationalist groups (1937–45). After an earlier period of cooperation had broken down in 1927, ...
Zhou Enlai
(b. Huaian, Jiangsu Province, 5 Mar. 1898; d. Beijing, 8 Jan. 1976)Chinese; Prime Minister, de facto director of Chinese foreign affairs 1949–76 Zhou Enlai was probably the most respected of all ...
