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The Dadao puppet municipal government of Shanghai (1937-1940):was one of a series Japanese-made "countries" and political entities set up in occupied China. The timeline for these successive creations can be tracked through their flags:
Apparently no limits were set (as they might have been by the Japanese government) to the creation of numerous "political entities" or "independent nations" in Japanese-controlled lands, before or during the Pacific War. Presumably the multiplication was to try to attract collaborators, none of whom would have a large personal power: an application of 'divide and conquer'. In practice they became Army fiefs, and largely autonomous. These "countries" are in detail as follows. This refers to a notionally-independent political entity which the Japanese administration set up during the early days of its occupation of Shanghai. It had a very brief existence. The flag used was yellow with a green and red yin-yang in the center. This "independent" entity existed in Shanghai for a few years, being absorbed into the Nanjing pro-Japanese government in 1940. Its flag was a taiji (yin-yang) symbol on a yellow background. This entity is cited directly in the following text from the article "Hanjian! --Collaboration and Retribution in War time Shanghai" by Frederic Wakeman Jr., a historian at UC Berkeley. This article was published in the book "Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond" (edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California Press, 2000):
Following the creation of a Chinese central government in Nanjing, on 30 March 1940, under the Japanese Central Chinese Army control, a national flag was adopted by the pro-Japanese government. It consisted of five stripes (red over yellow over blue over white over black) with a flame in the centre with the words "Peace, Reconstruction, Anticommunism" (in Chinese characters). Later in 1941- 42, at Japanese sugestion, they adopted the KMT flag and symbols, as representing the "real" Chinese government aiding the "just" Japanese cause. At same time the Japanese South Chinese Army adopted these ideas. Any "state" or "political entity" in Canton or other under its influence sphere was provided with its own flag, money and leaders, as a civil entity. The Imperial Japanese Army forces in China were characteristically divided. Hopei Puppet Stateflag (1931-32) This political entity was created and managed by the Japanese North Chinese Army and its "native" Japanese establishment. It was founded during 1931-32, at same time as Japanese forces took the Jehol province for the Manchukuo puppet state. It adopted a five-color flag, and used a different national anthem. It was later changed to KMT colours, similar to Wang Chingwei's Reformed Government of the Republic of China in 1940. This state was called from 1937 the East Yi Anti-Communist Autonomous Administration, or, for short, East Yi Autonomous Government. First Mongol State banner (1932-33) This was organized by the Japanese forces, in the Chahar area. It used a flag with blue background, having yellow, red and white square colours on the upper left side. Later this "nation", at the suggestion of Kanji Tsuneoka, a Japanese "consellor" , adopted the Mengjiang banner of Mongol Prince Tew Wang's government. Category:History of China This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Dadao government (Shanghai 1937-1940)".
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