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Nationalist China
1927–1937
Nationalist China refers to the Kuomintang (KMT)-led Republic of China on the mainland, especially the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937) after Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition reunified much of China. It pursued modernization and nation-building amid warlord residues, Communist insurgency, and Japanese aggression.
- Existed
- 1927–1937
- Shown on the map
- 1917–1929
- Peak area
- 8.1M km²
- Region
- East Asia
Overview
Nationalist China refers to the Kuomintang (KMT)-led Republic of China on the mainland, especially the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937) after Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition reunified much of China. It pursued modernization and nation-building amid warlord residues, Communist insurgency, and Japanese aggression. It bore the brunt of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Victorious but exhausted and corruption-ridden, it lost the resumed civil war to the Communists and retreated to Taiwan in 1949.
Common questions
- What was Nationalist China?
- Nationalist China refers to the Kuomintang (KMT)-led Republic of China on the mainland, especially the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937) after Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition reunified much of China. It pursued modernization and nation-building amid warlord residues, Communist insurgency, and Japanese aggression.
- When did Nationalist China exist?
- Nationalist China existed 1927–1937. On this map it is drawn 1917–1929.
- How large was Nationalist China?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Nationalist China covered about 8.1 million km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Kuomintang en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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