Republic of China prior to move to Taiwan
For the Republic of China after its 1949 retreat, see
Taiwan
. For the Japanese puppet state from 1940 to 1945, see
Wang Jingwei regime
.
Republic of China
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Flag
(1912?1928)
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Flag
(1928?1949)
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Anthem:
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National seal:
中華民國之璽
"
Seal of the Republic of China
" (1929?1949)
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Capital
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Largest city
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Official languages
| Standard Chinese
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Recognised national languages
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Official script
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Religion
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Religion in China
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Demonym(s)
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[1]
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Government
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Government of the Republic of China
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President
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? 1912
| Sun Yat-sen
(first,
provisional
)
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? 1949?1950
| Li Zongren
(
acting
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Vice President
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? 1912?1916
| Li Yuanhong
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? 1948?1954
| Li Zongren
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Premier
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? 1912
| Tang Shaoyi
(first)
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? 1949
| He Yingqin
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Legislature
| National Assembly
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| Control Yuan
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| Legislative Yuan
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History
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| 10 October 1911 ? 12 February 1912
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| 1 January 1912
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| 1912?1928
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| 10 January 1920
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| 1926?1928
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| 1927?1948
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| 1927?1936, 1945?1949
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| 7 July 1937?
2 September 1945
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| 24 October 1945
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| 25 December 1947
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| 1 October 1949
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| 7 December 1949
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| 1 May 1950
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1912
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2
(4,387,815 sq mi)
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1946
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(3,731,814 sq mi)
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Currency
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Time zone
| UTC
+5:30 to +8:30
(
Kunlun to Changbai Standard Times
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Driving side
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The
Republic of China
(
ROC
), or simply
China
, was a
sovereign state
on
mainland China
from 1912 to 1949, when the government
retreated
to
Taiwan
, where it continues to be based.
[f]
The ROC was established after the
1911 Revolution
against the
Qing dynasty
, ending the
imperial history
of China. The ROC government was ruled by the
Kuomintang
(KMT) as a
one-party state
based in
Nanjing
from 1927, until its flight to
Taipei
on 7 December 1949 following its defeat by the
Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) in the
Chinese Civil War
. The CCP
proclaimed the People's Republic of China
on 1 October 1949, while the ROC retains control over the
"Free Area"
, with the
political status of Taiwan
remaining in dispute.
The ROC was formally declared on 1 January 1912, before
Puyi
, who had reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty,
abdicated
on 12 February 1912.
Sun Yat-sen
, the ROC's founder and provisional president, served only briefly before handing over the presidency to
Yuan Shikai
, the leader of the
Beiyang Army
. Yuan quickly became authoritarian and used his military power to control the administration, which consequently became known as the "
Beiyang government
" (or the
First Republic of China
). Yuan even attempted to replace the Republic with
his own imperial dynasty
until
popular unrest
forced him to back down. When Yuan died in 1916, the country fragmented between the various local commanders of the Beiyang Army. This began the
Warlord Era
defined by decentralized conflicts between rival cliques. The most powerful of these cliques, notably the
Zhili
and
Fengtian cliques
, at times used their control of
Beijing
to assert claims to govern the entire Republic.
Meanwhile, the nationalist KMT under Sun's leadership attempted
multiple times
to establish a rival national government in
Guangzhou
. Sun was finally able to take Guangzhou with the help of weapons, funding, and advisors from the
Soviet Union
. As a condition of Soviet support, the KMT formed the "
First United Front
" with the Chinese Communist Party. CCP members joined the KMT and the two parties cooperated to build a revolutionary base in Canton. Sun planned to use this base to launch a military campaign northwards and reunify the rest of China. Sun's death in 1925 precipitated a power struggle that eventually resulted in the rise of General
Chiang Kai-shek
to
KMT chairmanship
. Thanks to strategic alliances with warlords and help from Soviet military advisors, Chiang was able to lead a successful "
Northern Expedition
" from 1926 to 1928. By 1927, Chiang felt secure enough to end the alliance with the Soviet Union and
purged the Communists
from the KMT. In 1928, the last major independent warlord
pledged allegiance
to the KMT's
Nationalist government
in Nanjing. China was then nominally reunified in 1928 by the
Nanking
-based government led by Chiang Kai-shek, who after the Northern Expedition ruled the country as a
one-party state
under the Kuomintang, and subsequently received
international recognition
as the representative legitimate from China. The
Nationalist government
can also be referred as the
Second Republic of China
[2]
While there was relative prosperity during the
following ten years
under Chiang Kai-shek, the ROC continued to be destabilized by the Chinese Civil War, revolts by the KMT's warlord allies, and steady territorial encroachments by Japan. Although heavily damaged by the purge, the CCP gradually rebuilt its strength by focusing on organizing peasants in the countryside. Warlords who resented Chiang's attempts to take away their autonomy and incorporate their military units into the
National Revolutionary Army
repeatedly led devastating uprisings, most significantly the
Central Plains War
. In 1931, the Japanese
invaded Manchuria
. They continued a series of smaller territorial encroachments until 1937, when they launched a
full-scale invasion
of China.
World War II
devastated China, leading to enormous loss of life and material destruction. The war between China and Japan continued until the
surrender of Japan
at the end of World War II in 1945, which led to Taiwan being placed under Chinese administration. In the aftermath of World War II, civil war resumed between the areas liberated by the KMT and those liberated by the CCP. The CCP's
People's Liberation Army
began to gain upper hand in 1948 over a larger and better-armed National Revolutionary Army due to better military tactics and internal corruption of the ROC leadership. In 1949, the ROC repeatedly moved its capital to avoid the Communist advance?first to Guangzhou, followed by
Chongqing
,
Chengdu
, and lastly to
Taipei
. In October 1949, the CCP established the PRC. Remnants of the ROC government would hang on in mainland China until late 1951. The KMT nationalists dominated the ROC politics for 72 years and ruled the island of
Taiwan
for around 54 years until they lost the
presidential election in 2000
to the Taiwanese nationalist
Democratic Progressive Party
(DPP).
The ROC was a founding member of the
League of Nations
and later the
United Nations
(including its
Security Council
seat) where it maintained until 1971, when the PRC took over its membership in the
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
. It was also a member of the
Universal Postal Union
and the
International Olympic Committee
. With a
population
of 541 million in 1949, it was the
world's most populous country
. Covering 11.4 million square kilometres (4.4 million square miles) of claimed territory,
[3]
it
de jure
consisted of 35
provinces
, 1
special administrative region
, 2 regions, 12
special municipalities
, 14 leagues, and 4 special banners.
Name
[
edit
]
The Republic of China's first president,
Sun Yat-sen
, chose
Zhonghua Minguo
(
Chinese
:
中華民國
;
lit.
'Chinese people's state') as the country's official Chinese name. The name was derived from the language of the
Tongmenghui
's 1905 party manifesto, which proclaimed that the four goals of the
Chinese revolution
were "to expel the
Manchu
rulers, revive China (
Zhonghua
), establish a republic (
minguo
), and distribute land equally among the people."
[i]
However, the conventional Chinese translation of republic was
gongheguo
(
Chinese
:
共和國
;
pinyin
:
Gongheguo
), not
minguo
(lit. "people's state").
On 20 October 1923, Sun said that
Zhonghua Minguo
means a state "of the people".
[4]
Both the "
Beiyang government
" (from 1912 to 1928), and the "
Nationalist government
" (from 1928 to 1949) used the name "Republic of China" as their official name.
In Chinese, the official name was often shortened to
Zhongguo
(
Chinese
:
中國
;
lit.
'middle country'),
Minguo
(
Chinese
:
民國
;
lit.
'peoples' country'), or
Zhonghua
(
Chinese
:
中華
;
lit.
'middle and beautiful').
[6]
[7]
[8]
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??期
;
traditional Chinese
:
民國時期
), because from the Chinese government's perspective the ROC ceased to exist in 1949.
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
In Taiwan, these years are called the "Mainland period" (
大陸時期
;
大??期
), since it was when the ROC was based on the mainland.
[13]
History
[
edit
]
Overview
[
edit
]
A republic was formally established on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which itself began with the
Wuchang uprising
on 10 October 1911, successfully overthrowing the
Qing dynasty
and ending over two thousand years of
imperial rule
in China.
[14]
From its founding until 1949, the republic was based on mainland China. Central authority waxed and waned in response to warlordism (1915?1928), a
Japanese invasion
(1937?1945), and a
full-scale civil war
(1927?1949), with central authority strongest during the
Nanjing Decade
(1927?1937), when most of China came under the control of the authoritarian,
one-party
military dictatorship of the nationalist
Kuomintang
party (KMT).
[15]
In 1945, at the end of
World War II
, the
Empire of Japan
surrendered control of Taiwan and its
island groups
to the
Allies
; and Taiwan was placed under the Republic of China's administrative control. The
communist takeover
of mainland China in 1949, after the Chinese Civil War, left the ruling Kuomintang with control over only
Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and other minor islands
. With the loss of the mainland, the ROC government retreated to
Taiwan
and the KMT declared
Taipei
the
provisional capital
.
[16]
Meanwhile, the CCP took over all of mainland China
[17]
[18]
and founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing.
1912?1916: Founding
[
edit
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Yuan Shikai (
left
) and Sun Yat-sen (
right
) with flags representing the early republic
In 1912, after over two thousand years of dynastic rule, a republic was established to replace the
monarchy
.
[14]
The
Qing dynasty
that preceded the republic had experienced instability throughout the 19th century and suffered from both internal rebellion and foreign imperialism.
[19]
A program of institutional reform proved too little and too late. Only the lack of an alternative regime prolonged the monarchy's existence until 1912.
[20]
[21]
The Chinese Republic grew out of the
Wuchang Uprising
against the Qing government, on 10 October 1911, which is now celebrated annually as the ROC's
national day
, also known as "
Double Ten Day
". Sun Yat-sen had been actively promoting revolution from his bases in exile.
[22]
He then returned and on 29 December, Sun Yat-sen was elected president by the Nanjing assembly,
[23]
which consisted of representatives from seventeen provinces. On 1 January 1912, he was officially inaugurated and pledged "to overthrow the despotic government led by the Manchu, consolidate the Republic of China and plan for the welfare of the people".
[24]
Sun's new government lacked military strength. As a compromise, he negotiated with
Yuan Shikai
the commander of the
Beiyang Army
, promising Yuan the presidency of the republic if he were to remove the Qing emperor by force. Yuan agreed to the deal.
[25]
On 12 February 1912, regent
Empress Dowager Longyu
signed the
abdication decree
on behalf of Puyi, ending several millennia of monarchical rule.
[26]
In 1913, elections were held for provincial assemblies, which would then chose delegates for a new National Assembly. The Kuomintang emerged as the formal political party that replaced the revolutionary organization
Tongmenghui
, and at the 1913 elections, it won the largest share of seats in both houses of the National Assembly and in some provincial assemblies.
Song Jiaoren
led the Kuomintang Party to electoral victories by fashioning his party's program to appeal to the gentry, landowners, and merchants. Song was assassinated on 20 March 1913, at the behest of Yuan Shikai.
[28]
Yuan was elected president of the ROC in 1913.
[19]
[29]
He ruled by military power and ignored the republican institutions established by his predecessor, threatening to execute Senate members who disagreed with his decisions. He soon dissolved the ruling
Kuomintang
(KMT) party, banned "secret organizations" (which implicitly included the KMT), and ignored the provisional constitution. Ultimately, Yuan declared himself
Emperor of China
in 1915.
[30]
The new ruler of China tried to increase centralization by abolishing the provincial system; however, this move angered the gentry along with the provincial governors, who were usually military men.
1916?1927: Warlord Era
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edit
]
Yuan's changes to government caused many provinces to
declare independence
and become
warlord
states. Increasingly unpopular and deserted by his supporters, Yuan abdicated in 1916 and died of natural causes shortly thereafter.
[31]
[32]
China then declined into a period of warlordism. Sun, having been forced into exile, returned to
Guangdong
in the south in 1917 and 1922, with the help of warlords, and set up successive rival governments to the
Beiyang government
in Beijing, having re-established the KMT in October 1919. Sun's dream was to unify China by launching an expedition against the north. However, he lacked the military support and funding to turn it into a reality.
[33]
Meanwhile, the Beiyang government struggled to hold onto power, and an open and wide-ranging debate evolved regarding how China should confront the West. In 1919, a student protest against the government's weak response to the
Treaty of Versailles
, considered unfair by Chinese intellectuals, led to the
May Fourth movement
, whose demonstrations were against the danger of spreading Western influence replacing Chinese culture. It was in this intellectual climate that
Marxist
thought began to spread. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded in 1921.
[34]
After Sun's death in March 1925,
Chiang Kai-shek
became the leader of the
Kuomintang
. In 1926, Chiang led the
Northern Expedition
with the intention of defeating the Beiyang warlords and unifying the country. Chiang received the help of the
Soviet Union
and the CCP. However, he soon dismissed his Soviet advisers, being convinced that they wanted to get rid of the KMT and take control.
[35]
Chiang decided to purge the Communists,
massacring thousands in Shanghai
. At the same time, other violent conflicts were taking place in China: in the South, where the CCP had superior numbers, Nationalist supporters were being massacred. Such events eventually led to the Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists and Communists.
1927?1937: Nanjing decade
[
edit
]
Major
Chinese warlord coalitions
during the "Nanjing Decade"
Chiang Kai-shek pushed the CCP into the interior and established a government, with Nanjing as its capital, in 1927.
[36]
By 1928, Chiang's army overthrew the
Beiyang government
and unified the entire nation, at least nominally, beginning the so-called
Nanjing decade
.
[37]
Sun Yat-sen envisioned three phases for the KMT rebuilding of China – military rule and violent reunification;
political tutelage
[
zh
]
; and finally a constitutional democracy.
[38]
In 1930, after seizing power and reunifying China by force, the "tutelage" phase started with the promulgation of a provisional constitution.
[39]
In an attempt to distant themselves from the Soviets, the Nationalist Government sought
assistance from Germany
.
According to Lloyd Eastman, Chiang Kai-shek was influenced by European fascist movements, and he launched the
Blue shirts
and the
New Life Movement
in imitation of them, in an effort to counter the growth of Mao's communism as well as resist both Western and Japanese imperialism.
[40]
According to Stanley Payne, however, Chiang's KMT was "normally classified as a multi-class populist or 'nation-building' party but not a fitting candidate for fascism (except by old-line Communists)." He also stated that, "Lloyd Eastman has called the Blue Shirts, whose members admired European fascism and were influenced by it, a Chinese fascist organization. This is probably an exaggeration. The Blue Shirts certainly exhibited some of the characteristics of fascism, as did many nationalist organizations around the world, but it is not clear that the group possessed the full qualities of an intrinsic fascist movement....The Blue Shirts probably had some affinity with and for fascism, a common feature of nationalisms in crisis during the 1930s, but it is doubtful that they represented any clear-cut Asian variant of fascism."
[41]
Still other historians have noted that Chiang and the KMT's exact ideology itself was very complex and oscillated over time, with different factions of his government cooperating with both the Soviets and Germans as they saw fit, and that Chiang eventually became disillusioned with the Blue Shirts, which officially disbanded by 1938,
[42]
[43]
something Payne also mentions as "possibly because of competition with
the KMT itself."
[44]
Some have also noted that in contrast to older historians from decades ago, Chiang's efforts have been increasingly seen by newer Western and Chinese historians alike as an arguably necessary if austere part of the complicated nation-building process in China during his time, especially given the wide range of both domestic and foreign challenges it faced on many different concurrent fronts.
[45]
[46]
[47]
Several major government institutions were founded during this period, including the
Academia Sinica
and the
Central Bank of China
. In 1932, China sent its first team to the
Olympic Games
. Campaigns were mounted and laws passed to promote the rights of women. In the 1931 Civil Code, women were given equal inheritance rights, banned forced marriage and gave women the right to control their own money and initiate divorce.
[48]
No nationally unified women's movement could organize until China was unified under the Kuomintang Government in Nanjing in 1928; women's suffrage was finally included in the new Constitution of 1936, although the constitution was not implemented until 1947.
[49]
Addressing social problems, especially in remote villages, was aided by improved communications. The
Rural Reconstruction Movement
was one of many that took advantage of the new freedom to raise social consciousness.
[
citation needed
]
The Nationalist government published a draft constitution on 5 May 1936.
[50]
Continual wars plagued the government. Those in the western border regions included the
Kumul Rebellion
, the
Sino-Tibetan War
, and the
Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang
. Large areas of
China proper
remained under the semi-autonomous rule of local warlords such as
Feng Yuxiang
and
Yan Xishan
, provincial military leaders, or warlord coalitions.
[37]
Nationalist rule was strongest in the eastern regions around the capital Nanjing. The
Central Plains War
in 1930, the
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
in 1931, and the Red Army's
Long March
in 1934 led to more power for the central government, but there continued to be foot-dragging and even outright defiance, as in the
Fujian Rebellion
of 1933?1934.
[
citation needed
]
Reformers and critics pushed for democracy and human rights, but the task seemed difficult if not impossible. The nation was at war and divided between Communists and Nationalists. Corruption and lack of direction hindered reforms. Chiang told the State Council: "Our organization becomes worse and worse... many staff members just sit at their desks and gaze into space, others read newspapers and still others sleep."
[51]
1937?1945: Second Sino-Japanese War
[
edit
]
China had been at war with Japan since 1931.
Few Chinese had any illusions about Japanese desires on China. Hungry for raw materials and pressed by a growing population, Japan initiated
the seizure of Manchuria
in September 1931, and established the former emperor
Puyi
as head of the puppet state of
Manchukuo
in 1932. The loss of Manchuria, and its potential for industrial development and war industries, was a blow to the Kuomintang economy. The
League of Nations
, established at the end of World War I, was unable to act in the face of Japanese defiance.
The Japanese began to push south of the
Great Wall
into northern China and the coastal provinces. Chinese fury against Japan was predictable, but anger was also directed against Chiang and the Nanjing government, which at the time was more preoccupied with anti-Communist extermination campaigns than with resisting the Japanese invaders. The importance of "internal unity before external danger" was forcefully brought home in December 1936, when
Chiang Kai-shek
was kidnapped by
Zhang Xueliang
and forced to ally with the Communists against the Japanese in the
Second United Front
, an event now known as the
Xi'an Incident
.
Chinese resistance stiffened after 7 July 1937, when a clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops outside
Beijing
near the
Marco Polo Bridge
. This skirmish led to open, although undeclared, warfare between China and Japan. Shanghai fell after a
three-month battle
during which Japan suffered extensive casualties in both its army and navy. Nanjing fell in December 1937, which was followed by mass murders and rapes known as the
Nanjing Massacre
. The national capital was briefly at
Wuhan
, then removed in an epic retreat to Chongqing, the seat of government until 1945. In 1940, the Japanese set up the collaborationist
Wang Jingwei regime
, with its capital in Nanjing, which proclaimed itself the legitimate "Republic of China" in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek's government, although its claims were significantly hampered due to its being a
puppet state
controlling limited amounts of territory.
Chinese Nationalist Army
soldiers during the
1938 Yellow River flood
The United Front between the Kuomintang and the CCP had salutary effects for the beleaguered CCP, despite Japan's steady territorial gains in northern China, the coastal regions and the rich
Yangtze
River valley in central China. After 1940, conflicts between the Kuomintang and Communists became more frequent in the
areas not under Japanese control
. The Communists expanded their influence wherever opportunities presented themselves through mass organizations, administrative reforms and the land- and tax-reform measures favoring the peasants and, the spread of their organizational network, while the Kuomintang attempted to neutralize the spread of Communist influence. Meanwhile, northern China was infiltrated politically by Japanese politicians in Manchukuo using facilities such as the
Manchukuo Imperial Palace
.
After its entry into the
Pacific War
during World War II, the United States became increasingly involved in Chinese affairs. As an ally, it embarked in late 1941 on a program of massive military and financial aid to the hard-pressed
Nationalist Government
. In January 1943, both the United States and the
United Kingdom
led the way in revising their
unequal treaties
with China from the past.
[52]
[53]
Within a few months a new agreement was signed between the United States and the Republic of China for the stationing of American troops in China as part of the common war effort against Japan. The United States sought unsuccessfully to reconcile the rival Kuomintang and Communists, to make for a more effective anti-Japanese war effort. In December 1943, the
Chinese Exclusion Acts
of the 1880s, and subsequent laws, enacted by the United States Congress to restrict Chinese immigration into the United States were repealed. The wartime policy of the United States was meant to help China become a strong ally and a stabilizing force in postwar East Asia. During the war, China was one of the Big Four Allies, and later one of the
Four Policemen
, which was a precursor to China having a permanent seat on the
United Nations Security Council
.
[54]
In August 1945, with American help, Nationalist troops moved to take the Japanese surrender in North China. The Soviet Union?encouraged to
invade Manchuria
to hasten the end of the war and allowed a Soviet sphere of influence there as agreed to at the
Yalta Conference
in February 1945?dismantled and removed more than half the industrial equipment left there by the Japanese. Although the Chinese had not been present at Yalta, they had been consulted and had agreed to have the Soviets enter the war, in the belief that the Soviet Union would deal only with the Kuomintang government. However, the Soviet presence in northeast China enabled the Communists to arm themselves with equipment surrendered by the withdrawing Japanese army.
1945?1949: Defeat in the Chinese Civil War
[
edit
]
In 1945, after the end of the war, the Nationalist Government moved back to Nanjing. The Republic of China emerged from the war nominally a great military power but actually a nation economically prostrate and on the verge of all-out civil war. The problems of rehabilitating the formerly Japanese-occupied areas and of reconstructing the nation from the ravages of a protracted war were staggering. The economy deteriorated, sapped by the military demands of foreign war and internal strife, by spiraling inflation, and by Nationalist profiteering, speculation, and hoarding. Starvation came in the wake of the war, and millions were rendered homeless by floods and unsettled conditions in many parts of the country.
On 25 October 1945, following the
surrender of Japan
, the administration of
Taiwan
and
Penghu Islands
were handed over from Japan to China.
[55]
After the end of the war,
United States Marines
were used to hold Beijing and
Tianjin
against a possible Soviet incursion, and logistic support was given to Kuomintang forces in north and northeast China. To further this end, on 30 September 1945 the
1st Marine Division
, charged with maintaining security in the areas of the
Shandong Peninsula
and the eastern
Hebei
, arrived in China.
[56]
In January 1946, through the mediation of the United States, a military truce between the Kuomintang and the Communists was arranged, but battles soon resumed. Public opinion of the administrative incompetence of the Nationalist government was incited by the Communists during the nationwide student protest against the mishandling of the
Shen Chong rape case
in early 1947 and during another national protest against monetary reforms later that year. The United States?realizing that no American efforts short of large-scale armed intervention could stop the coming war?withdrew Gen.
George Marshall's American mission
. Thereafter, the Chinese Civil War became more widespread; battles raged not only for territories but also for the allegiance of sections of the population. The United States aided the Nationalists with massive economic loans and weapons but no combat support.
The Nationalists' retreat to Taipei: after the Nationalists lost Nanjing they next moved to Guangzhou, then to
Chongqing
,
Chengdu
, and
Xichang
before arriving in Taipei.
Belatedly, the Republic of China government sought to enlist popular support through internal reforms. However, the effort was in vain, because of rampant government corruption and the accompanying political and economic chaos. By late 1948 the Kuomintang position was bleak. The demoralized and undisciplined
National Revolutionary Army
proved to be no match for the Communists' motivated and disciplined
People's Liberation Army
. The Communists were well established in the north and northeast. Although the Kuomintang had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and in-fighting among various generals. They were also losing the propaganda war to the Communists, with a population weary of Kuomintang corruption and yearning for peace.
In January 1949, Beiping was taken by the Communists without a fight, and its name changed back to Beijing. Following the capture of Nanjing on 23 April, major cities passed from Kuomintang to Communist control with minimal resistance, through November. In most cases the surrounding countryside and small towns had come under Communist influence long before the cities. Finally, on 1 October 1949, Communists led by
Mao Zedong
founded the
People's Republic of China
. Chiang Kai-shek declared
martial law
in May 1949, whilst a few hundred thousand Nationalist troops and two million refugees, predominantly from the government and business community, fled from mainland China to Taiwan. There remained in China itself only isolated pockets of resistance. On 7 December 1949, Chiang proclaimed Taipei the temporary capital of the Republic of China.
During the Chinese Civil War both the Nationalists and Communists carried out mass atrocities, with millions of non-combatants killed by both sides.
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Benjamin Valentino has estimated atrocities in the civil war resulted in the death of between 1.8 million and 3.5 million people between 1927 and 1949, including deaths from forced conscription and massacres.
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Government
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edit
]
The first Republic of China national government was established on 1 January 1912, in Nanjing, with a
constitution
stating
Three Principles of the People
, which state that "[the ROC] shall be a democratic republic of the people, to be governed by the people and for the people."
[59]
Sun Yat-sen was the provisional president. Delegates from the provinces sent to confirm the government's authority formed the first parliament in 1913. The power of this government was limited, with generals controlling both the central and northern
provinces of China
, and short-lived. The number of acts passed by the government was few and included the formal abdication of the Qing dynasty and some economic initiatives. The parliament's authority soon became nominal: violations of the Constitution by Yuan were met with half-hearted motions of censure. Kuomintang members of parliament who gave up their membership in the KMT were offered 1,000
pounds
. Yuan maintained power locally by sending generals to be provincial governors or by obtaining the allegiance of those already in power.
When Yuan died, the parliament of 1913 was reconvened to give legitimacy to a new government. However, the real power passed to military leaders, leading to the warlord period. The impotent government still had its use; when
World War I
began, several Western powers and Japan wanted China to declare war on Germany, to liquidate German holdings in China.
In February 1928, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 2nd Kuomintang National Congress, held in Nanjing, passed the Reorganization of the Nationalist Government Act. This act stipulated that the Nationalist Government was to be directed and regulated under the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, with the Committee of the Nationalist Government being elected by the KMT Central Committee. Under the Nationalist Government were seven ministries?Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Transport, Justice, Agriculture and Mines, and Commerce, in addition to institutions such as the
Supreme Court
,
Control Yuan
, and the General Academy.
Nationalist government of Nanjing, which nominally ruled over all of China during 1930s
With the promulgation of the Organic Law of the Nationalist Government in October 1928, the government was reorganized into five different branches, or
yuan
, namely the
Executive Yuan
,
Legislative Yuan
,
Judicial Yuan
,
Examination Yuan
as well as the Control Yuan. The Chairman of the National Government was to be the head-of-state and commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the first chairman, a position he would retain until 1931. The Organic Law also stipulated that the Kuomintang, through its National Congress and Central Executive Committee, would exercise sovereign power during the period of "political tutelage", that the KMT's Political Council would guide and superintend the Nationalist Government in the execution of important national affairs, and that the Political Council has the power to interpret or amend the Organic Law.
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Shortly after the Second Sino-Japanese War, a long-delayed constitutional convention was summoned to meet in Nanjing in May 1946. Amidst heated debate, this convention adopted many constitutional amendments demanded by several parties, including the KMT and the Communist Party, into the Constitution. This Constitution was promulgated on 25 December 1946 and came into effect on 25 December 1947. Under it, the Central Government was divided into the presidency and the five yuans, each responsible for a part of the government. None was responsible to the other except for certain obligations such as the president appointing the head of the Executive Yuan. Ultimately, the president and the yuans reported to the National Assembly, which represented the will of the citizens.
Under the new constitution the first elections for the National Assembly occurred in January 1948, and the assembly was summoned to meet in March 1948. It elected the president of the republic on 21 March 1948, formally bringing an end to the KMT party rule started in 1928, although the president was a member of the KMT. These elections, though praised by at least one US observer, were poorly received by the Communist Party, which would soon start an open, armed insurrection.
Foreign relations
[
edit
]
Before the Nationalist government was ousted from the mainland, the Republic of China had diplomatic relations with 59 countries
[
citation needed
]
, including Australia, Canada,
Cuba
,
Czechoslovakia
,
Estonia
,
France
,
Germany
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Italy
,
Japan
,
Latvia
,
Lithuania
,
Norway
,
Panama
,
Siam
, the
Soviet Union
,
Spain
, the
United Kingdom
, the
United States
, and the
Holy See
. The Republic of China was able to maintain most of these diplomatic ties, at least initially following the retreat to Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek had vowed to quickly return and "liberate" the mainland,
[61]
[62]
an assurance that became a cornerstone of the ROC's post 1949 foreign policy.
League of Nations
[
edit
]
The Republic of China was a member of the
League of Nations
and participated until it was dissolved. Those in the country's foreign relations were among the most stable of those working in the government in terms of composition. The ROC was a non-permanent member of the
League Council
for the League of Nations being a non-permanent member of the League Council from: 1921-23, 1926-28, 1931-1932 1934 and 1936. Although the ROC lobbied to be a permanent member of the League Council it never became one. At the League of Nations, China wanted to see the
unequal treaties
revised. The ROC thought that by being in the League they could improve their international standing.
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United Nations
[
edit
]
Under the
Charter of the United Nations
, the Republic of China was entitled to a
permanent seat on the UN Security Council
(UNSC).
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[65]
Though multiple objections were raised that the seat belonged to the lawful government of China, which had to many become the PRC even arguably prior to the official conclusion of the Chinese Civil War,
[j]
[66]
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the ROC retained the permanent seat reserved for China on the UNSC until 1971 when it was supplanted by the PRC.
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Administrative divisions
[
edit
]
Nobility
[
edit
]
The Republic of China retained hereditary nobility like the Han Chinese nobles
Duke Yansheng
and
Celestial Masters
and
Tusi
chiefdoms like the
Chiefdom of Mangshi
,
Chiefdom of Yongning
, who continued possessing their titles in the Republic of China from the previous dynasties.
[
citation needed
]
Military
[
edit
]
Army
[
edit
]
Beiyang Army troops in the 1920s.
The Republic of China's military initially consisted of the decentralized forces of the former Qing dynasty, with the most modern and organized being the
Beiyang Army
, before it split into
factions
that
attacked each other
.
[72]
During the Second Revolution in 1913, as the president of the republic, Yuan Shikai used the Beiyang Army to defeat provincial forces opposed to him and to extend his control over north China and other provinces as far south as the Yangtze River. This also led to the expansion of the size of the Beiyang Army, and an effort was made by Yuan to reduce provincial armies in areas he controlled,
though they were not completely disbanded.
Yuan ended the Qing practice of frequently rotating officers among command positions in the Beiyang divisions, which led to the subordinates developing personal loyalty to their commanders, whose units became their power base. He maintained control over the Beiyang Army by providing the division commanders with the patronage of the presidency, and had them keep each other in check. Yuan was unable to completely reorganize the fragmented command structure of China's military to be more of a bureaucratic institution under the direct control of the central government.
After Yuan's death in 1916, the Beiyang Army split among different factions led by his generals that rivaled each other. Though they continued to control the central government in Beijing, they were unable to take over the south.
The southern warlords had their own armies but they were also divided by conflicts among themselves.
Despite the breakdown of centralized leadership, some military schools established during the Qing dynasty continued to function during the warlord era, including the
Baoding Military Academy
, which graduated the majority of officers that served in warlord armies and many that later became Nationalist officers.
Sun Yat-sen created a new government in 1917 as an alternative to the Beiyang, but he did not have the military power to control the southern warlords.
Therefore, the National Revolutionary Army was established by Sun in 1924 in
Guangdong
with the goal of reunifying China under the Kuomintang, with Soviet advisors and equipment.
To avoid the problems of warlord armies, the NRA was under the political and ideological control of a party, the KMT, and included party representatives in its ranks.
After Sun's death in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist Army in its first campaign against less organized warlord forces from 1926 to 1928, becoming known as the
Northern Expedition
.
After the success of the Northern Expedition the National Revolutionary Army was seen as China's national army, despite warlords still controlling parts of the country. During the next decade the army was increased in size from 250,000 to around two million, organized into 200 divisions. In the 1930s a small number of these divisions received training from German instructors, as well as modern uniforms and weapons, as part of the process of creating a professional army.
The
Whampoa Military Academy
had been established by Sun Yat-sen with Soviet assistance to provide officers for the KMT army,
and in 1928 it was moved to Nanjing to become the Central Military Academy, where its size and training program was expanded by the Germans. But these
German-trained forces
represented a small part of the total KMT army,
numbering about 40 divisions.
NRA troops in 1944.
When the war between Japan and China broke out in 1937, Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best divisions to central China, where they took heavy losses during the
Battle of Shanghai
and the following retreat. Half of the officers that graduated from the Central Military Academy were killed in the first few months of fighting.
By 1941, the Chinese Nationalist Army had 3.8 million troops in 246 front-line divisions and 70 reserve divisions, though the majority of the divisions were under-strength and the troops were poorly trained. Many of these divisions were still more loyal to warlords than to Chiang Kai-shek. The U.S. also provided military assistance to China, planning to equip 30 divisions, but the prioritization of the European theater and the logistical difficulties of getting the supplies to China prevented these plans from being fully carried out.
After the
Battle of Wuhan
in 1938, the Chinese Army tried to avoid direct large scale fighting with the Japanese.
Chiang also wanted to preserve his army instead of engaging in ground operations, despite pressure from the American leadership to go on the offensive.
It was not until early 1944 when Chiang agreed to launch a
major offensive
against Japanese forces in
Burma
to reopen the
overland supply line
to China, though it was unsuccessful. It took place around the same time as Japan's largest offensive since 1941,
Operation Ichi-Go
. The Japanese advanced rapidly in central and southeast China, as the Chinese Army still suffered from a lack of supplies, and by the start of 1945 they captured several U.S. air bases and created a direct connection to
French Indochina
.
In early 1945, Chinese and Allied troops in Burma succeeded in opening a land route to India, allowing more equipment to be sent to the Chinese, which they used to
stop Japanese advances
in southeast China by May. They were planning an offensive to retake control of a port in southern China when Japan surrendered.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the armed forces of the CCP were nominally incorporated into the National Revolutionary Army, while remaining under separate command, but broke away to form the People's Liberation Army shortly after the end of the war. With the promulgation of the
Constitution of the Republic of China
in 1947 and the formal end of the KMT party-state, the National Revolutionary Army was renamed the
Republic of China Armed Forces
, with the bulk of its forces forming the
Republic of China Army
, which retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after their defeat in the Chinese Civil War. Units which surrendered and remained in mainland China were either disbanded or incorporated into the People's Liberation Army.
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Navy
[
edit
]
The
cruiser
Ning Hai
was the Chinese navy's flagship in the early 1930s.
The Republic of China's Navy during between 1911 and 1949 was primarily composed of ships from the Qing Dynasty or ships obtained from foreign countries. As most threats to the Republic were on land from the warlords and the Communists there was no interest in developing any maritime strategies. No significant efforts were made during this period to grow the navy because of China being in a state of general disarray. Sometimes warlords did use maritime forces but mainly as a way of supporting land combat.
[93]
When Sun Yat-sen established his constitutional protection government in Guangzhou in 1917, some of his early support came from the Chinese navy, represented by admirals
Cheng Biguang
and
Lin Baoyi
.
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In 1926, Admiral
Yang Shuzhuang
led some elements of the
Beiyang Fleet
to defect to the National Revolutionary Army and became the head of the revolutionary navy on the Yangtze River.
One of Admiral Yang's subordinates was
Chen Shaokuan
,
who became the commander of the ROC Navy in 1932 and remained in that position until after the war with Japan. During the 1930s he organized the Chinese navy into the Central, Northeast, and Guangdong Fleets.
Chiang Kai-shek announced in 1928 that it was his intention to build a large navy for China, but this goal was undermined by financial problems and other difficulties.
Many senior officers did not have modern naval training, and newer officers that were educated in Western countries were not promoted. When the war with Japan broke out, the majority of the Chinese fleet was used during the Battle of Shanghai to slow down the Japanese advance along the Yangtze River. Many ships were sunk by Japanese aircraft or were sunk deliberately by the Chinese to use as blockships in the Yangtze. By 1939 most of the Chinese navy had been destroyed, with one estimate claiming that over 100 of the navy's 120 ships in 1937 had been sunk. Some Chinese warships (notably the cruisers
Ning Hai
and
Ping Hai
) were later refloated and put into service by the
Imperial Japanese Navy
.
The building of a Chinese navy was no longer a priority during the rest of the war,
and in 1940 Chiang Kai-shek disbanded the Ministry of the Navy.
In 1945, Chiang revived plans to create a modern Chinese Navy and asked the United States for assistance. The Nationalists received over 100 ships from the U.S. and its allied countries, as well as some captured Axis ships. Before the end of 1945 a navy training center was established in Qingdao by the
U.S. Navy
. The new navy was mainly used to transport troops and patrol the coastline during the
Chinese Civil War
.
In 1948, the former British cruiser
HMS
Aurora
was gifted to China and was renamed
Chongqing
, becoming the flagship of the ROCN. In February 1949, as Chinese Communist forces advanced to the Yangtze River from the north, a mutiny of sailors occurred on
Chongqing
and the flagship defected to the Communists. This was followed in April by a mutiny of the entire fleet along the Yangtze, which was led by its commander to the other side. Because of this, 23 April 1949 is considered the founding date of the
People's Liberation Army Navy
.
At the end of the war the rest of the ROCN moved Nationalist troops from the mainland to Taiwan.
The ROC Marine Corps was created from the former Naval Guard Corps, and consisted of two marine brigades, which were used during the war against Japan in several provinces before the corps was disbanded in 1946.
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In 1947, a reorganized Republic of China Marine Corps was created by the commander of the Navy using select personnel from the Army.
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Air Force
[
edit
]
B-25 Mitchell
bomber with Chinese Nationalist insignia.
The Republic of China Air Force during the Second-Sino Japanese War was outmatched by the Japanese aviation forces. Foreign advisors from Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom came to China in the 1930s; while foreign aircraft were also imported from a variety of countries. With the beginning of the war they began to rely most heavily on the United States and Soviet Union for advisors. The low amount of planes being domestically produced would prove to be a hindrance.
[104]
Beginning in 1929, the Nationalist government started expanding its air power to improve its position over warlords and the Communists. The ROC Air Force was formally established in April 1929, and that month the aviation department of the Ministry of War was separated as the National Aviation Administration, with General
Chang We-chang
as its head. He started a program of buying American aircraft, with the first,
Vought Corsair
planes, arriving in early 1930. The Chinese Air Force expanded from the first 12 Corsair planes in 1930 to a size of eight squadrons, with seven of bomber-observation planes and one of pursuit planes, in 1931, with a total of 40 to 50 aircraft. Several American pilots became advisors to China's air force and fought in battles against the Japanese or warlords.
The Nationalist Air Force had a role in the
Central Plains War
of 1930 by bombing cities, directing artillery, and observing warlord army defensive positions, and is credited with helping bring about a faster victory for Chiang Kai-shek's government. It had less success against the Japanese during the
Shanghai Incident
in 1932.
In September 1932, the Central Aviation School was founded with the help of an American mission led by John Jouett, and its graduates included the majority of Chinese pilot officers by 1937. On his recommendation, the ROCAF was restructured, with a Ministry of Aviation equal to that of the Military and Navy Ministries being established under the
Military Affairs Commission
. Additional planes were purchased, and factories were also opened in China. As of 1936, the Chinese Air Force had 645 aircraft, and multiple factories and schools.
When the war with Japan broke out in July 1937, much of the ROC Air Force was destroyed during the fighting in central China by December of that year. From 1938 to 1940 the
Soviet Volunteer Group
did much of the fighting against the Japanese, along with the remnants of the ROCAF.
The Soviets sent 885 planes to China over those years.
Economy
[
edit
]
Boat traffic and development along
Suzhou Creek
, Shanghai, 1920
A 10 Custom Gold Units bill, 1930
In the early years of the Republic of China, the economy remained unstable as the country was marked by constant warfare between different regional warlord factions. The
Beiyang government
in Beijing experienced constant changes in leadership, and this political instability led to stagnation in economic development until Chinese reunification in 1928 under the Kuomintang.
[110]
After this reunification, China entered a period of relative stability?despite ongoing isolated military conflicts and in the face of Japanese aggression in
Shandong
and
Manchuria
, in 1931?a period known as the "Nanjing Decade".
Chinese industries grew considerably from 1928 to 1931. While the economy was hit by the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931 and the Great Depression from 1931 to 1935, industrial output recovered to their earlier peak by 1936. This is reflected by the trends in Chinese GDP. In 1932, China's GDP peaked at 28.8 billion, before falling to 21.3 billion by 1934 and recovering to 23.7 billion by 1935.
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By 1930, foreign investment in China totaled 3.5 billion, with Japan leading (1.4 billion) followed by the United Kingdom (1 billion). By 1948, however, the capital investment had halted and dropped to only 3 billion, with the US and Britain being the leading investors.
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However, the rural economy was hit hard by the
Great Depression
of the 1930s, in which an overproduction of agricultural goods lead to falling prices for China as well as an increase in foreign imports (as agricultural goods produced in western countries were "dumped" in China). In 1931, Chinese imports of rice amounted to 21 million
bushels
compared with 12 million in 1928. Other imports saw even more increases. In 1932, 15 million bushels of grain were imported compared with 900,000 in 1928. This increased competition lead to a massive decline in Chinese agricultural prices and thus the income of rural farmers. In 1932, agricultural prices were at 41 percent of 1921 levels.
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By 1934, rural incomes had fallen to 57 percent of 1931 levels in some areas.
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In 1937, the
Second Sino-Japanese War
began with a Japanese invasion of China, and the resulting warfare laid waste to China. Most of the prosperous east coast was occupied by the Japanese, who committed atrocities such as the
Nanjing massacre
. In one anti-guerilla sweep in 1942, the Japanese killed up to 200,000 civilians in a month. The war was estimated to have killed between 20 and 25 million Chinese, and destroyed all that Chiang had built up in the preceding decade.
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Development of industries was severely hampered after the war by devastating civil conflict as well as the inflow of cheap American goods. By 1946, Chinese industries operated at 20% capacity and had 25% of the output of pre-war China.
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One effect of the war with Japan was a massive increase in government control of industries. In 1936, government-owned industries were only 15% of GDP. However, the ROC government took control of many industries to fight the war. In 1938, the ROC established a commission for industries and mines to supervise and control firms, as well as instilling price controls. By 1942, 70% of Chinese industry was owned by the government.
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Following the
surrender of Japan
in World War II,
Japanese Taiwan
was placed under the control of the ROC. In the meantime, the KMT renewed its struggle with the communists. However, the corruption and hyperinflation as a result of trying to fight the civil war, resulted in mass unrest throughout the Republic
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and sympathy for the communists. In addition, the communists' promise to redistribute land gained them support among the large rural population. In 1949, the communists captured Beijing and later Nanjing. The People's Republic of China was proclaimed on 1 October 1949. The Republic of China relocated to Taiwan where Japan had laid an educational groundwork.
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Transportation
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edit
]
China's infrastructure would grow dramatically during this period. The railroad network length grew from 9,600 kilometres (6,000 mi) in 1912 to 25,000 kilometres (16,000 mi) by 1945. The Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan was known for his strong commitment toward developing railroads. During the Nanjing decade the length of the highway network grew from 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) to 109,000 kilometres (68,000 mi) while growth was also seen in navigable waterways. In the early 1930s, a Sichuan warlord named Liu Xiang was strongly committed toward creating an entirely Chinese navigation company and eliminating foreign-owned companies in the Yangtze River basin.
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See also
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]
Notes
[
edit
]
- ^
Outer Mongolia
was brought under
ROC rule
between 1919 and 1921.
- ^
The Republic of China was proclaimed in Nanjing on 1 January, and its capital was moved to Beijing on March 10 of the same year.
- ^
From 23 April 1949, the government was evacuated to
Guangzhou
,
Chongqing
and
Chengdu
in the Mainland before declaring
Taipei
as its temporary capital on 7 December 1949. Chengdu was captured on 27 December.
- ^
Nanjing was still marked as the
de jure
capital on maps published by the
Ministry of the Interior
after 1949, until publication was suspended in 1998.
- ^
As wartime
provisional capital
during the
Second Sino-Japanese War
after the
fall of Nanjing
.
- ^
a
b
The state did not cease to exist in 1949. The government was
relocated
from
Nanjing
to
Taipei
, where it remains today.
- ^
Tibet
, which was
de facto
independent, was
annexed by the PRC
on 23 May 1951.
- ^
Left hand drive until 1946.
- ^
Chinese
:
驅除?虜, 恢復中華, 創立民國, 平均地權
;
pinyin
:
Q?chu dal?, hu?fu Zh?nghua, chuangli minguo, pingj?n di quan
- ^
The relocation to Taiwan was initially intended to be a regrouping as the KMT had not actually been wholly defeated in the rest of China in 1949 and was initially able to hold onto pockets of Chinese territory on the mainland. After losing Hainan in 1950, most KMT holdouts were soon overrun, attempts to hold parts of the Chinese coast, especially that closest to Taiwan failed and rather than returning and reconquering-by the late 1950s the only presence the ROC had in mainland China was in the remote areas of western China's wilderness were a small number of KMT loyalists held out fighting a guerilla campaign that was gradually worn down.
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