Reformed Government of the Republic of China

Reformed Government of the Republic of China
中華民國維新政府
Zhōnghuá Mínguó Wéixīn Zhèngfǔ
Unrecognized State
Puppet regime of the Empire of Japan
1938–1940


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Anthem
The Song to the Auspicious Cloud[1]
Capital Nanjing
Languages Chinese
Government Republic
Acting Chairman Liang Hongzhi
Historical era Interwar period
 • Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937
 •  Established 28 March 1938
 •  Merged into Reorganized National Government 30 March 1940
Preceded by 		Succeeded by
Republic of China (1912-49)
Dadao government (Shanghai 1937–1940)
Reorganized National Government of China

The Reformed Government of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國維新政府, Zhōnghuá Mínguó Wéixīn Zhèngfǔ or Japanese: 中華民国政府改革, literally: "Chūkaminkoku seifu kaikaku") was a Chinese provisional government protected by Japan that existed from 1938 to 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.[2]

History

After the retreat of Kuomintang forces from Nanjing in 1938 from their defeat in the Battle of Nanjing, Japanese Imperial General Headquarters authorized the creation of a collaborationist regime to give the semblance of at least nominal local control over Japanese-occupied central and south China. Northern China was already under a separate administration, the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, from December 1937.

The Reformed Government of the Republic of China was established by Liang Hongzhi and others on 28 March 1938, and was assigned control of the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui as well as the two municipalities of Nanjing and Shanghai.[3] Its activities were carefully prescribed and overseen by “advisors” provided by the Japanese China Expeditionary Army. The failure of the Japanese to give any real authority to the Reformed Government discredited it in the eyes of the local inhabitants, and made its existence of only limited propaganda utility to the Japanese authorities.[4]

The Reformed Government was, along with the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, merged into Wang Jingwei's Nanjing-based reorganized national government on 30 March 1940.

References

  1. ↑ China 1921-1928 nationalanthems.info
  2. ↑ Brune, Lester H. (2002). Chronological History of US Foreign Relations. Routeledge. p. 521. ISBN 0-415-93916-X.
  3. ↑ Honda, Katsuichi (1999). The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. M.E. Sharpe. p. 283. ISBN 0-7656-0334-9.
  4. ↑ Black, Jeremy (2002). World War Two: A Military History. Routeledge. p. 34. ISBN 0-415-30535-7.

Further reading

Preceded by
Nationalist government
(1927–1948)		 Reformed Government of the Republic of China
1938–1940 		Succeeded by
Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China
(1940–1945)
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