classicism: a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
knowledge domain: the content of a particular field of knowledge
kuomintang: the political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan