English

Proper noun

Kuomintang

1. A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949 and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 238:

     He drew lists of Party cadre members of both before and after forty-nine, and pored over the scant details of those entrusted with the takeover of big enterprises where technological know-how was required: in particular the Kiangnan shipyard, a massive affair from which the Kuomintang elements had repeatedly to be purged.