In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China twice held competitions for the words to a new national anthem, to replace the Kuomintang (KMT) party song used since 1928. Since it did not receive entries it deemed appropriate, the ministry in 1937 officially adopted the KMT song as the country’s national anthem, an…
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