Institute of Revolutionary Practice
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Institute of Revolutionary Practice 革命實踐研究院 | |
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| Abbreviation | KMT IRP |
| Director | Cheng Li-wun |
| Deputy Director | Yu Shu-hui Huang Chien-hao |
| Founder | Chiang Kai-shek |
| Founded | 8 July 1949 |
| Headquarters | 232–234 Bade Road, Sec. 2 Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Youth wing | Kuomintang Youth League |
| Ideology | Three Principles of the People |
| Mother party | Kuomintang (KMT) |
| Type | Political party school |
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| Traditional Chinese | 革命實踐研究院 | ||||||||
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The Institute of Revolutionary Practice (Chinese: 革命實踐研究院) is an educational institution established in 1949, and affiliated with the Kuomintang.
On 8 July 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and a group of Kuomintang leaders, among them Chang Chi-yun, Hsu Pei-keng, Ku Cheng-kang, and Sun Li-jen, founded the Institute of Revolutionary Practice. Later that month, Chiang Ching-kuo, Tao Hsi-sheng, and Yu Ta-wei were appointed to the preparatory committee.[1] The institute published its own newsletter, Practice, the first issue of which was dated 15 October 1949.[2] The institute's first students were admitted on 16 October 1949.[3]: 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 part of this reform.[4][5][6] 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.[5] Upon the death of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975, the oversight of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice was delegated to the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.[7]: 23 The institution was known as the National Development and Research Institute between October 1999 and 2017, when it returned to its original name.[8][9] The institute resumed training sessions in July 2020, twenty years after they had been suspended.[10]
The institute is located in the Muzha portion of Wenshan District in Taipei, on a plot of land known as Zhongxing Shanzhuang.[11] The Kuomintang acquired the land on which the property is located in 1964.[12] A portion of the plot was sold to the Yuanlih Group in August 2005 for NT$4.25 billion.[13][14][15] In 2014, portions of the institute's premises were designated by the Taipei City Government as historic buildings.[16][17]
Kuomintang chairman Johnny Chiang stated in 2020 that the institute's directorship is an unpaid and "obligatory post".[18]
