Free China

Proper noun

Free China

1. (dated) The Republic of China in Taiwan as opposed the People's Republic of China; primarily used during the Cold War prior to 1979.
   • Thus I met Captain Chang Yi Ming, commanding officer of the tiny guerrilla forces of Free China on Tungting Island.1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10
   • These pressures might lead to an eventual abandonment of Free China. And this possibility, I believe, is rooted, not in the issues themselves, but in a general public attitude full of danger for our China policy.
     I refer here to the fact that the attitudes of both the public and Congress are far...April 27, 1957, David Nelson Rowe, “Will We Sacrifice Free China?”, in National Review, volume III, number 17, page 397

   Antonyms:

   Red China

2. (historical, World War II) The areas of China that were not occupied by Japan, including areas dominated by Communist resistance.
   • Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base.1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 6
   • Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the...1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32