I'm studying about the cultural revolution in China. What does CCP and GMD stand for?

Answer 1

Chinese Communist Party and the Kuo Min Tang (the Nationalists under Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek)

They were uneasy allies in the fight against Japan occupying Manchuria but once the Japanese had been defeated the Communists expelled the Nationalists from mainland China to the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and consequent irrelevancy in Chinese history thereafter.

PINYIN

KMT is the traditional spelling/transliteration as is Peking and Mao Tse Tung but we have become used to Beijing and Mao Zhe Dong and GMD (Guo Min Dang) is similarly inspired if less familiar.

Pinyin was adopted by China in 1979 as the standard form of Romanisation of Mandarin Chinese. This was 3 years after Mao died and therefore he was exclusively known as Mao Tse Tung in the West when he was alive.

The pronunciation rules in Pinyin affecting KMT/GMD are:

d = unaspirated t, as in stop
t = aspirated t, as in top

g = unaspirated k, as in skill
k = aspirated k, as in kill

Answer 2

The Communist Party of China (CPC) (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共產黨; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the ruling political party of the People's Republic of China, a position guaranteed by the country's constitution.

The Guomindang (Chinese People's Party, GMD) under Sun Yat-sen governs southern parts of the country since 1917 with an own president and forms after the conquest of Nanjing a counter governement in the south.

Answer 3

CCP : "Chinese Communist Party"

(“CCCP” = Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet Union)

GMD : "Guomindang", Pinyin for "Kuomintang"

Answer 4

Chinese Communist Party

Guo Min Dang (not sure on spelling)

Answer 5

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