| Institute of Revolutionary Practice | |
| Native Name: | Chinese: 革命實踐研究院 |
| Abbreviation: | KMT IRP |
| Leader1 Title: | Director |
| Leader1 Name: | Lo Chih-chiang |
| Leader2 Title: | Deputy Director |
| Leader2 Name: | Yu Shu-hui Huang Chien-hao |
| Founder: | Chiang Kai-shek |
| Headquarters: | 232–234 Bade Road, Sec. 2 Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Blank1 Title: | Mother party |
| Blank1: | Kuomintang (KMT) |
| Blank2 Title: | Type |
| Blank2: | Political party school |
| Youth Wing: | Kuomintang Youth League |
| Ideology: | Three Principles of the People |
| Website: | Official Facebook page |
| T: | 革命實踐研究院 |
| P: | Gémìng shíjiàn yán jiù yuàn |
| W: | Ko2-ming4 shih2-chien4 yan2 chiu4 yüan4 |
The Institute of Revolutionary Practice is an educational institution established in 1949, and affiliated with the Kuomintang.
On 8 July 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and a group of Kuomintang leaders, among them Chang Chi-yun,, Ku Cheng-kang, and Sun Li-jen, founded the Institute of Revolutionary Practice. Later that month, Chiang Ching-kuo,, and were appointed to the preparatory committee.[1] The institute published its own newsletter, Practice, the first issue of which was dated 15 October 1949.[2] The institute's first students were admitted on 16 October 1949.[3] During the 1950s, Chiang Kai-shek attempted to reform the Kuomintang, so that its members were loyal to him. The trainees at the Institute of Revolutionary Practice and other programs were a part of this reform.[4] [5] While in a leadership position at the school, Chiang Ching-kuo relied on his role to build his political influence with younger party members, who trained there to become mid- to high-level members of the Kuomintang.[6] Upon the death of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975, the oversight of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice was delegated to the .[7] The institution was known as the National Development and Research Institute between October 1999 and 2017, when it returned to its original name.[8] [9] The institute resumed training sessions in July 2020, twenty years after they had been suspended.[10]
The institute is located in the Muzha portion of Wenshan District in Taipei, on a plot of land known as Zhongxing Shanzhuang.[11] The Kuomintang acquired the land on which the property is located in 1964.[12] A portion of the plot was sold to the Yuanlih Group in August 2005 for NT$4.25 billion.[13] [14] [15] In 2014, portions of the institute's premises were designated by the Taipei City Government as historic buildings.[16] [17]
Kuomintang chairman Johnny Chiang stated in 2020 that the institute's directorship is an unpaid and "obligatory post".[18]