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

As eldest son of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 55-year-old Chiang Ching-kuo has long been touted to have better than an even chance to take charge of Nationalist China when his father, now 77, retires.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the dominoes fall, will it be Thailand next, then South Korea, Nationalist China on Formosa and so on?

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