sentences:  The KMT claimed a loss of morale led to "losing the Mainland" and thus the state issued a series of ideological reforms aimed to "retake the mainland", which became the major state cultural program or the time, The immediate preoccupation with losing China diverted long-term investment in the humanities and social sciences.On another level, the state's main objective was to "sinicize" the Taiwanese by teaching them Mandarin Chinese and Nationalist ideology through compulsory primary education.By the late 1940s the KMT had eliminated dissent for its cultural policies.