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Flag Duration Use Description 1 July 1997 – present: Flag of Hong Kong [2]: A white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana on a red field with 1 star on each of the petals. The Chinese name of Bauhinia × blakeana has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means "foreign" in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to ...
PLA flag during Nixon's visit to China. The flag of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the war flag of the People's Liberation Army; the layout of the flag has a golden star at the top left corner and two Chinese characters "八一" to the right of the star, placed on a red field.
Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945 (1982). Cohen, Warren I. America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (5th ed. 2010) Dreyer, Edward L. China at War, 1901-1949 (1995). 422 pp. Dulles, Foster Rhea. China and America: The Story of Their Relations Since 1784 (1981), general survey
The design features one large star, with four smaller stars in an arc set off towards the fly. It has been the national flag of China since the foundation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949. The flag was designed by Zeng Liansong. The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Operation Beleaguer [4] was the codename for the United States Marine Corps' occupation of northeastern China's Hebei and Shandong provinces from 1945 until 1949. The Marines were tasked with overseeing the repatriation of more than 600,000 Japanese and Koreans that remained in China at the end of World War II.
National Flag of the Republic of China, used between 1912 and 1928. Also known as "Five-colored flag". 1911: Wuchang Uprising. 1911: Flag of the Republic of China "Five-Colored Flag" selected as the national flag by the provisional senate. 1912: Sun Yat-sen elected First Provisional President of the ROC by delegates from independent provinces.
City Historian D. Ray Smith described the scientific theatrics of the gates opening. A cowboy star rode his horse into the Alexander Guest House.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. 1927–1949 civil war in China For other uses, see Chinese Civil War (disambiguation). Chinese Civil War Part of the interwar period, the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Cold War Clockwise from top left: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping National Revolutionary Army troops ...