This research discusses the reform of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) between 1950 and 1952. In the late 1940s, KMT launched a "reform movement," which eventually failed, aiming at problems such as factional disputes within the party, organizational operations, and member discipline. After retreating to Taiwan, the military threat from Communist Party of China relatively decreased due to the break out of Korean War in 1950; therefore, Chiang Kai-shek determined to clear existing internal factions and accomplished the power alternation within the party. The two-year reform began. According to the conclusion of this research, the reform of KMT was not only a movement of reorganization of the party, but also a social movement and revolutionary movement. In this two-year period, the reform movement not only reconstructed the organization and the spirit of "revolution" in the party, but also paid attention to students, women, workers, peasants and all levels of public opinions, and led them to establish caucus to facilitate the management. Meanwhile, KMT reiterated the attribute of "revolutionary democratic party," strengthened the core values and beliefs of anti-communist and re-country, and rationalized the dominance of one party. Although the reform emphasized on policy rather than technique, the strategies proposed in the movement had been practically implemented at the national societies, according to the observation of the development of KMT ruling. This study was the PhD dissertation of the researcher, which was published in 2000. The political situation has been different contemporarily, in order to respond to the change of times, the historical factors investigated by the researcher are expected to be the reference for today's "reform" issues.
About the Author: Sheau-Huey Chen, whose ancestral home is Xingning County, Guangdong, was born in 1963, New Taipei City (Taipei County), Taiwan. She finished BA, MA, and PhD in Department of History, National Chengchi University. She worked in Academia Historica as a Contract Assistant in the late 1980s, and now is an Associate Professor of General Education Center in National Taiwan University of Arts. Her academic research area includes: Modern Chinese History, Taiwanese History, and Women's History; curretnly she teaches general education courses such as "Traditional Custom and the Modern Society," "History and Her story" and "Oral History" in the university.