The Institute of Revolutionary Practice (Chinese: 革命實踐研究院) is an educational institution established in 1949, and affiliated with the Kuomintang.
Institute of Revolutionary Practice 革命實踐研究院 | |
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| Abbreviation | KMT IRP |
| Director | Lo Chih-chiang |
| Deputy Director | Yu Shu-hui Huang Chien-hao |
| Founder | Chiang Kai-shek |
| Founded | 8 July 1949 |
| Headquarters | 232–234 Bade Road, Sec. 2 Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Youth wing | Kuomintang Youth League |
| Ideology | Three Principles of the People |
| Mother party | Kuomintang (KMT) |
| Type | Political party school |
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| Traditional Chinese | 革命實踐研究院 | ||||||||
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History
editOn 8 July 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and a group of Kuomintang leaders, among them Chang Chi-yun, Hsu Pei-keng, Ku Cheng-kang, and Sun Li-jen, founded the Institute of Revolutionary Practice. Later that month, Chiang Ching-kuo, Tao Hsi-sheng, and Yu Ta-wei were appointed to the preparatory committee.[1] The institute published its own newsletter, Practice, the first issue of which was dated 15 October 1949.[2] The institute's first students were admitted on 16 October 1949.[3]: 137 During the 1950s, Chiang Kai-shek attempted to reform the Kuomintang, so that its members were loyal to him. The trainees at the Institute of Revolutionary Practice and other programs were a part of this reform.[4][5][6] While in a leadership position at the school, Chiang Ching-kuo relied on his role to build his political influence with younger party members, who trained there to become mid- to high-level members of the Kuomintang.[5] Upon the death of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975, the oversight of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice was delegated to the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.[7]: 23 The institution was known as the National Development and Research Institute between October 1999 and 2017, when it returned to its original name.[8][9] The institute resumed training sessions in July 2020, twenty years after they had been suspended.[10]
The institute is located in the Muzha portion of Wenshan District in Taipei, on a plot of land known as Zhongxing Shanzhuang.[11] The Kuomintang acquired the land on which the property is located in 1964.[12] A portion of the plot was sold to the Yuanlih Group in August 2005 for NT$4.25 billion.[13][14][15] In 2014, portions of the institute's premises were designated by the Taipei City Government as historic buildings.[16][17]
Kuomintang chairman Johnny Chiang stated in 2020 that the institute's directorship is an unpaid and "obligatory post".[18]
Structure
edit- Kuomintang Youth League
- Research Department
- Teaching Department
Leaders
edit- Chiang Kai-shek (16 October 1949 – 31 October 1949)
- Chen Cheng (31 October 1949 – 21 May 1950)
- Peng Meng-chi (21 May 1950 – 1954)
- Chu Sung-chiu (26 June 1954 – 25 September 1954)
- Chiang Kai-shek (May 1956 – 1958)
- Chang Chi-yun (1958–1972)
- Yuan Shouqian (1963–1967)
- Lee Huan (6 August 1975 – 14 June 1978)
- Chiang Yen-si (14 June 1978 – January 1988)
- Lee Teng-hui (January 1988 – December 1988)
- Chuang Huai-yi (from 1994)
- Tsai Bih-hwang (December 1997 – August 2002)
- John Kuan (2002–2005)
- Chen Ta-tai (24 July 2009 – 4 September 2011)
- Kao Huei (until 12 February 2014)
- Kuo Shou-wang (May 2014 – January 2015)
- Jimmy Wu (February 2015 – March 2016)
- Lin Chung-shan (June 2016 – July 2017)
- Lin Huo-wang September 2017 – 25 March 2020)
- Lo Chih-chiang (since 26 March 2020)
References
edit- ^ "中國國民黨蔣中正總裁指示創設革命實踐研究院(1949.7.8)" (in Chinese). Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Williams, Martin John (July 2005). "Politics and ethnicity: A study of the role of state security interests in the maintenance of Aboriginal difference in Taiwan" (PDF). University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ 高純淑 (2014). "〈蔣介石的草山歲月——從日記中觀察〉". In Lu Fang-shang (ed.). 《蔣介石的日常生活》. Hong Kong: Cosmos Books.
- ^ "The Nationalist Party and China". Free China Review. 1 December 1951. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ a b Dickson, Bruce J. (March 1993). "The Lessons of Defeat: The Reorganization of the Kuomintang on Taiwan, 1950-52". The China Quarterly. 133 (133): 56–84. doi:10.1017/S0305741000018191. JSTOR 654239. S2CID 155062712.
- ^ Han Cheung (19 January 2020). "Taiwan in Time: Fixing the KMT, 1950 edition". Taipei Times. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ 革命實踐研究院特刊，Taipei：Central Committee of the Kuomintang，1995年10月
- ^ 潘, 維庭 (17 October 2017). "國民黨國發院改回「革命實踐研究院」". China Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Hsiao, Sherry (21 April 2020). "Legislators to join KMT institute as party seeks to attract younger talent". Taipei Times. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Shih, Hsiao-kuang (5 July 2020). "KMT institute resumes party training sessions". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ Shih, Hsiao-kuang; Xie, Dennis (23 May 2020). "KMT accuses Tsai administration of 'witch hunt' after documents request". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Chen, Wei-han (14 March 2017). "Institute's land sale to be investigated". Taipei Times. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Tseng, Wei-chen (26 August 2017). "Assets committee investigates court case". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Chen, Yu-fu; Hsu, Yi-ping; Chin, Jonathan (11 June 2018). "Taipei asked to bar project over likely connection to KMT". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Hsieh, Chun-lin (25 December 2019). "Ma-led Taipei City Government had conflict of interest". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "「革命實踐研究院院舍」秋瑾堂、育樂室、民眾會堂、保健所" (in Chinese). Bureau of Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "革命實踐研究院司令臺" (in Chinese). Bureau of Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Hsiao, Sherry (8 April 2020). "Chiang sees KMT institute as key to attracting talent". Taipei Times. Retrieved 22 April 2020.