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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 ...
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. The characters " 八一 " (literally "eight one") are a reference to the events of August 1, 1927 ...
Flag of China. A large golden star within an arc of four smaller golden stars, in the canton, on a field of Chinese red. The national flag of the People's Republic of China, also known as the Five-star Red Flag, [1] is a Chinese red field with five golden stars charged at the canton.
The flag of the Republic of China, commonly called the flag of Taiwan, [2][3][4] consists of a red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles; said symbols symbolize the sun and rays of light emanating from it, respectively. The flag was originally designed by the anti- Qing group, the Revive China Society, in ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had sphere of influence zones within Republican era China from 1927 to 1949 during the Chinese Civil War, collectively called revolutionary base areas. They were also known as the Soviet Zone from 1927 to 1937 during the early stages of the Chinese Civil War, the Anti-Japanese Base Areas during the Second Sino ...
Branch. United States Navy. Type. Naval fleet. Admiral Frank B. Upham, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet (front row, center), and his staff officers, c. 1935. The United States Asiatic Fleet was a fleet of the United States Navy during much of the first half of the 20th century. Before World War II, the fleet patrolled the Philippine Islands.
50,000 killed, wounded and missing [5] The First Battle of Changsha (17 September 1939 – 6 October 1939; Chinese: 第一次長沙會戰) was the first of four attempts by Japan to take the city of Changsha, Hunan, during the second Sino-Japanese War. Coming two weeks after Germany 's invasion of Poland on September 1, it was the first major ...
The Battle of Changsha of 1944 (also known as the Battle of Hengyang or Campaign of Changsha-Hengyang; Chinese: 長衡會戰) was an invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan by Japanese troops near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. As such, it encompasses three separate conflicts: an invasion of the city of Changsha and two invasions of ...