DPP bashes KMT trip as `surrender'

That move broadened the party's ranks from its socially elite core to include blue-collar workers and socialists.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) broke off cooperation with the communists in July 1927.

The two parties began the second attempt at cooperation in 1937 in the face of the Japanese invasion.

That nominal alliance -- plagued by infighting throughout World War II -- ended in 1945 with the Japanese surrender.