Editing Three Principles of the People (section)

===Republic of China and Taiwan===
{{See also|Grand Alliance for China's Reunification under the Three Principles of the People}}
During the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]]'s [[Nanjing decade|Nanjing period]], the KMT developed a national censorship apparatus as part of its "Arts of the Three Principles of the People" cultural campaign.<ref name=":Laikwan">{{Cite book |last=Laikwan |first=Pang |title=One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty |date=2024 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=9781503638815 |location=Stanford, CA}}</ref>{{Rp|page=121}} This program sought to censor cultural products deemed unwelcomed by the KMT, such as works by left-wing artists or writers.<ref name=":Laikwan" />{{Rp|page=|pages=121–122}}

There were several [[higher education|higher-education]] institutes (university departments/faculties and [[graduate school|graduate institute]]s) in Taiwan that used to devote themselves to the 'research and development' of the Three Principles in this aspect. Since the late 1990s, these institutes have re-oriented themselves so that other political theories are also admitted as worthy of consideration, and have changed their names to be more ideologically neutral (such as Democratic Studies Institute).

In addition to this institutional phenomenon, many streets and businesses in Taiwan are named "Sān-mín" or for one of the three principles. In contrast to other politically derived street names, there has been no major renaming of these streets or institutions in the 1990s.

Although the term "Sanmin Zhuyi" (三民主義) has been less explicitly invoked since the mid-1980s, no political party has explicitly attacked its principles with practices under the [[Martial Law]] [[Martial law in Taiwan|ruling era]] then except the [[Tangwai movement]] groups such as [[Democratic Progressive Party]]. The Three Principles of the People remains explicitly part of the platform of the Kuomintang and in the [[Constitution of the Republic of China]].

As for [[Taiwan independence]] supporters, some have objections regarding the formal constitutional commitment to a particular set of political principles. Also, they have been against the mandatory indoctrination in schools and universities, which have now been abolished in a piecemeal fashion beginning in the late 1990s. However, there is little fundamental hostility to the substantive principles themselves. In these circles, attitudes toward the Three Principles of the People span the spectrum from indifference to reinterpreting the Three Principles of the People [[Taiwanese localization movement|in a local Taiwanese context]] rather than in a pan-Chinese one.