text: In 1932, Chiang created the Blue Shirts Society, the core of which were KMT military officers who had been exposed to the politics of fascism through Chiang's Nazi advisors. Blue Shirts rhetoric emphasized contempt for liberal democracy.
  In an effort to improve the KMT's disintegrating support during the late phase of the Chinese civil war, in 1947 Chiang sought to allow some democracy and officially declared the third phase of the KMT's program. The KMT initially allowed direct election of the National Assembly and for non-KMT parties to compete in the election.
  After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Nationalist government promulgated the Constitution of the Republic of China. The 1947 National Assembly and 1948 legislative elections were boycotted by the Communists which held most of northern China. As a result, the Nationalists and their junior coalition partners, the Chinese Youth Party and China Democratic Socialist Party, won the election.
  People's Republic of China
  The People's Republic of China (PRC) officially refers to itself as a "socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics", but explicitly distinguishing itself from the liberal democratic system, which the CCP calls "unfit" for China's "unique conditions". In the PRC definition, democracy has meant the Marxist–Leninist concepts of people's democratic dictatorship and democratic centralism. In this viewpoint, CCP acts as the representative of the Chinese public.