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The Republic of China Military Academy (Chinese: 中華民國陸軍軍官學校; pinyin: Zhōnghúa Mīngúo Lùjūn Jūnguān Xúexiào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiong-hôa Bîn-kok Lio̍k-kun Kun-koaⁿ Ha̍k-hāu), also known as the Chinese Military Academy (CMA), is the service academy for the army.
Jun 16, 2021 · The Republic of China Central Military Academy maintains the tradition that began in Whampoa, having relocated to Nanjing, Chengdu, and now to Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The “Spirit of Whampoa” defined generations of military leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and beyond, as Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang described in ...
The Whampoa Academy, headed by Sun’s successor, Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), was to train the officers for the revolutionary army. Lin had been at the academy less than a year when Chiang launched the Northern Expedition in July 1926.
The Kuomintang Army Officer Academy, commonly known as the Whampoa Military Academy, was a military academy of the Republic of China (ROC) which produced many prestigious commanders who fought in many of China's conflicts in the 20th century, notably the Northern Expedition, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.
The academy was established to train army elites for both the Kuomintang and the communists, before it was purged of the latter in 1927 as relations between the two factions collapsed. The academy is on Chángzhōu Island (长洲岛, Chángzhōu Dǎo), also home to the Xinhai Revolution Museum .
Jun 16, 2023 · Founded on June 16, 1924, China’s Whampoa Military Academy was the country’s first modern military school and aimed to reunite the nation. It instead nurtured leaders on both sides of the ensuing civil war.
Jul 2, 2021 · On June 16, 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy, on an island off Guangzhou, was inaugurated.
Jun 27, 2024 · Overview. Whampoa Military Academy. Quick Reference. When Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan) reorganized the Nationalist Party (Guomindang, or Kuomintang) in 1923 and 1924 and concluded an alliance with the Comintern, one of his key goals was to ... From: Whampoa Military Academy in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World » Reference entries.
The main entrance to the military academy in Huangpu (or Whampoa), Guangzhou, in 1924. It came to be known as the Whampoa Military Academy for its location. After concluding his experience and lessons learned, Sun was determined to establish a military academy so that the KMT as a revolutionary party had its own army.
Jun 16, 2014 · China's first modern military academy celebrated its 90th anniversary on Monday, with an oral history research center launched to preserve the memories of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
