Institute of Revolutionary Practice
{{Short description|Kuomintang training school}}
{{Infobox political organization
| name = Institute of Revolutionary Practice
| native_name = {{lang|zh-hans|革命實踐研究院}}
| logo =
| colorcode = {{party colour|Kuomintang}}
| abbreviation = KMT IRP
| leader1_title = Director
| leader1_name = Lo Chih-chiang
| leader2_title = Deputy Director
| leader2_name = Yu Shu-hui
Huang Chien-hao
| founder = Chiang Kai-shek
| founded = {{start date and age|1949|7|8|df=y}}
| headquarters = 232–234 Bade Road, Sec. 2
Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
| blank1_title = Mother party
| blank1 = Kuomintang (KMT)
| blank2_title = Type
| blank2 = Political party school
| youth_wing = Kuomintang Youth League
| ideology = Three Principles of the People
| international =
| website = [https://www.facebook.com/KMTpraxis/ Official Facebook page]
}}{{Infobox Chinese
| t = 革命實踐研究院
| p = Gémìng shíjiàn yán jiù yuàn
| w = Ko2-ming4 shih2-chien4 yan2 chiu4 yüan4
| headercolor = {{party colour|Kuomintang}}
| title = {{font colour|white|Institute of Revolutionary Practice}}
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The Institute of Revolutionary Practice ({{zh|t=革命實踐研究院}}) is an educational institution established in 1949, and affiliated with the Kuomintang.
History
On 8 July 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and a group of Kuomintang leaders, among them Chang Chi-yun, {{ill|Hsu Pei-keng|zh|徐培根}}, Ku Cheng-kang, and Sun Li-jen, founded the Institute of Revolutionary Practice. Later that month, Chiang Ching-kuo, {{ill|Tao Hsi-sheng|zh|陶希聖}}, and {{ill|Yu Ta-wei|zh|俞大維}} were appointed to the preparatory committee.{{cite news |title=中國國民黨蔣中正總裁指示創設革命實踐研究院(1949.7.8) |url=https://www.cipas.gov.tw/stories/163 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |agency=Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee |date=29 May 2019 |language=zh}} The institute published its own newsletter, Practice, the first issue of which was dated 15 October 1949.{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Martin John |title=Politics and ethnicity: A study of the role of state security interests in the maintenance of Aboriginal difference in Taiwan |url=https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/29946/2/02whole.pdf |accessdate=22 April 2020 |publisher=University of Technology, Sydney |date=July 2005}} The institute's first students were admitted on 16 October 1949.{{cite book |author=高純淑 |chapter=〈蔣介石的草山歲月——從日記中觀察〉 |editor=Lu Fang-shang |title=《蔣介石的日常生活》 |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Cosmos Books |year=2014 }}{{rp|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.{{cite news |title=The Nationalist Party and China |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=6734 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=Free China Review |date=1 December 1951}}{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |title=Taiwan in Time: Fixing the KMT, 1950 edition |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2020/01/19/2003729490 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=19 January 2020}} 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.{{cite journal |last1=Dickson |first1=Bruce J. |title=The Lessons of Defeat: The Reorganization of the Kuomintang on Taiwan, 1950-52 |journal=The China Quarterly |date=March 1993 |volume=133 |issue=133 |pages=56–84 |doi=10.1017/S0305741000018191 |jstor=654239|s2cid=155062712 }} Upon the death of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975, the oversight of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice was delegated to the {{ill|Central Committee of the Kuomintang|zh|中國國民黨中央委員會}}.革命實踐研究院特刊，Taipei：Central Committee of the Kuomintang，1995年10月{{rp|23}} The institution was known as the National Development and Research Institute between October 1999 and 2017, when it returned to its original name.{{cite news |last1=潘 |first1=維庭 |title=國民黨國發院改回「革命實踐研究院」 |url=https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20171018005014-260407 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=China Times |date=17 October 2017 |language=zh}}{{cite news |last1=Hsiao |first1=Sherry |title=Legislators to join KMT institute as party seeks to attract younger talent |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/04/21/2003735010 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=21 April 2020}} The institute resumed training sessions in July 2020, twenty years after they had been suspended.{{cite news |last1=Shih |first1=Hsiao-kuang |title=KMT institute resumes party training sessions |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/07/05/2003739396 |accessdate=4 July 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=5 July 2020}}
The institute is located in the Muzha portion of Wenshan District in Taipei, on a plot of land known as Zhongxing Shanzhuang.{{cite news |last1=Shih |first1=Hsiao-kuang |last2=Xie |first2=Dennis |title=KMT accuses Tsai administration of 'witch hunt' after documents request |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/05/23/2003736906 |accessdate=23 May 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=23 May 2020}} The Kuomintang acquired the land on which the property is located in 1964.{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Wei-han |title=Institute's land sale to be investigated |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/03/14/2003666731 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=14 March 2017}} A portion of the plot was sold to the Yuanlih Group in August 2005 for NT$4.25 billion.{{cite news |last1=Tseng |first1=Wei-chen |title=Assets committee investigates court case |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/08/26/2003677197 |accessdate=23 May 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=26 August 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Yu-fu |last2=Hsu |first2=Yi-ping |last3=Chin |first3=Jonathan |title=Taipei asked to bar project over likely connection to KMT |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/06/11/2003694689 |accessdate=23 May 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=11 June 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Hsieh |first1=Chun-lin |title=Ma-led Taipei City Government had conflict of interest |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/12/25/2003728159 |accessdate=23 May 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=25 December 2019}} In 2014, portions of the institute's premises were designated by the Taipei City Government as historic buildings.{{cite news |title=「革命實踐研究院院舍」秋瑾堂、育樂室、民眾會堂、保健所 |url=https://nchdb.boch.gov.tw/assets/overview/historicalBuilding/20051004000001 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |publisher=Bureau of Cultural Heritage |language=zh}}{{cite news |title=革命實踐研究院司令臺 |url=https://nchdb.boch.gov.tw/assets/overview/historicalBuilding/20140619000001 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |agency=Bureau of Cultural Heritage |language=zh}}
Kuomintang chairman Johnny Chiang stated in 2020 that the institute's directorship is an unpaid and "obligatory post".{{cite news |last1=Hsiao |first1=Sherry |title=Chiang sees KMT institute as key to attracting talent |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/04/08/2003734208 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=8 April 2020}}
Structure
- Kuomintang Youth League
- Research Department
- Teaching Department
Leaders
- Chiang Kai-shek (16 October 1949 – 31 October 1949)
- Chen Cheng (31 October 1949 – 21 May 1950)
- Peng Meng-chi (21 May 1950 – 1954)
- {{ill|Chu Sung-chiu|zh|楚崧秋}} (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)
- {{ill|Chiang Yen-si|zh|蔣彥士}} (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)
- {{ill|Kao Huei|zh|高輝}} (until 12 February 2014)
- Kuo Shou-wang (May 2014 – January 2015)
- Jimmy Wu (February 2015 – March 2016)
- Lin Chung-shan (June 2016 – July 2017)
- {{ill|Lin Huo-wang|zh|林火旺}} September 2017 – 25 March 2020)
- Lo Chih-chiang (since 26 March 2020)
References
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Category:1949 establishments in Taiwan