Taiwan has been politically separate from the mainland since the Nationalists retreated to the island in 1949 after losing China's civil war to the Communists.

Indeed, Taiwan has lobbied hard in this country since 1949, after the Nationalists lost China's civil war to the Communists and retreated to the island of Taiwan.

Beijing has regarded Taiwan as a renegade province ever since the Nationalists lost China's civil war to the Communists in 1949 and retreated here.

Taiwan has survived independent of China for 50 years now, since the defeated Nationalists retreated here.

The Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949.

When the Nationalists retreated here from the mainland at the end of China's civil war in 1949, they did not intend to stay long.

He then devoted himself to "the study of books" (editing,academic papers) on the island of Taiwan where the Nationalists had retreated in 1949.

By 1938, Hankow fell and the Nationalists again retreated, this time to Chungking.

The Nationalists retreat to the island of Taiwan and set up a government there.

In 1949, the Communists returned once more as the Nationalists retreated southward.