Common Abbreviations

CCP/CPC - Chinese Communist Party / Communist Party of China

CHI - Three letter HOI country code for Republic of China

CKS - Chiang Kai-shek

GXC - Three letter HOI country code for Guanxi Clique

KMT - Kuomintang the ruling party of the Republic of China

NRA - National Revolutionary Army, the name of the Republic of China's ground forces

PRC - People's Republic of China also three letter HOI country code for Chinese Communist Party

ROC - Republic of China

ROCAF - Republic of China Air Force

ROCN - Republic of China Navy

SHX - Three letter HOI country code for Shanxi Clique

TIB - Three letter HOI country code for Republic of China

WPA - Worker's and Peasant's Army (sometimes CWPA for Chinese Worker's and Peasant's Army) the army of the Chinese Communists

XSM - Three letter country HOI country code for Xibei San Ma Clique

YUN - Three letter HOI country code for Yunnan Clique