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In 1949, after their defeat in the Chinese civil war, Chiang Kai-shek 's Nationalists retreated to Taiwan. To consolidate their rule, the Nationalists imposed martial law and proclaimed Mandarin as the national language, even though hardly anyone in Taiwan spoke it.