Nationalist China

British  

noun

1. an unofficial name for (the Republic of) China

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Nationalist China ¹ Cultural  

1. The Republic of China; the government on the island of Taiwan. Established by Chiang Kai-shek in the late 1940s after he and his followers were driven from the mainland by the communists under Mao Zedong. Until 1979, the United States treated the Nationalist Chinese government as the legitimate government of all of China. Nationalist China and the United States still have unofficial diplomatic relations.

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Nationalist China ² Cultural  

1. After the conquest of mainland China by communists led by Mao Zedong in 1949, Nationalist (anticommunist) leader Chiang Kai-shek led the remnants of his army to the island of Taiwan, where he established a government called Nationalist China, which the United States long recognized as the only legitimate government for all of China.

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Example Sentences

Army Air Corps Capt. Claire Chennault had been recruited by Nationalist China leader Chiang Kai-shek to lead that country’s struggling air force.

From Washington Times • May 29, 2017

One was the island of Taiwan, or Nationalist China, with an area of 13,000 square miles.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Nationalist China has at least twelve, six of British and six of German make, waiting to be tested against larger future orders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before World War II, Nationalist China gave shelter to anti-French Vietnamese political refugees, but even this consideration failed to erase the enmity.

From Time Magazine Archive

See also, Min-ch'ien T. Z. Tyau, Two Years of Nationalist China, Shanghai, 1930, for a summary that is as excellent as it is short.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony