Kuomintang

Led early on by Sun Yixian, this Chinese Nationalist group was later led into the Chinese Civil War by Jiang Jieshi.

The Kuomintang (KMT) the Chinese and Taiwanese political party. The party was organized in 1912 under the leadership of Sun Yixian, to follow the Revolutionary Alliance. The original Kuomintang program called for a democracy type government that was under parliament rule and socialism. In 1913, the president of China restrained the KMT although it had the majority in the first national assembly. Under Sun Yixian, the party created revolutionary governments in 1918 and 1921 and even sent a delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. Sun had aid from the USSR, and after 1922 the KMT were recognized. In 1924, a coalition including Communists accepted Sun's political theory, the Three People's Principles: nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. Sun thought that Chinese national rebuilding must go through a system of progressing stages: military government, the caring for of the people under the KMT, and popular sovereignty.

In 1926, Kuomintang general Jiang Jieshi launched the Northern Expedition, advancing north against the Beijing government. After stopping in 1927, when the Communists were removed and civil war between the two began, Kuomintang forces captured Beijing in 1928. The KMT government received diplomatic recognition in 1928. After many KMT military attacks, the Communists were forced to abandon their bases in south central China and create new ones in the northwest. The KMT continued to attack the Communists, ignoring the Japanese threat until China was invaded by the Japanese in 1937. Although affected by government corruption, the KMT controlled the Chinese government until 1947. Its control was never intact.

I think you two should have mentioned somewhere a bit more about the abandonment of the democtractic principles, mostly due to the military and political power of the war lords.