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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 ...
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.
The Empire of China during the Manchu-led Qing dynasty did not have an official state emblem, but the flag featured the azure dragon on a plain yellow field with a red sun of the three-legged crow [citation needed] in the upper left corner. It became the first national flag of China and is usually referred to as the Yellow Dragon Flag.
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.
The flag is no longer used in mainland China due to the ROC defeat in the Chinese Civil War and the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The ROC national flag has since then remained in use within the " Free Area ", which includes the islands of Taiwan and Penghu , as well as some remaining offshore islands off the Fujian coast ...
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The Chinese Communist Party, formed in 1921 in the aftermath of the May Fourth Movement. Its military arm eventually became the People's Liberation Army . The party was allied with the Kuomintang during the first phase of the Northern Expedition , but the two sides split following the Shanghai massacre in 1927.
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