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The Republic of China (ROC) began as a country in mainland China. [f] It was established on 1 January 1912 after the 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu -led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial history. It was ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT) as a one-party state ("Dang Guo") while headquartered in Nanjing from 1927 until its ...
People's Republic 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 design features one large star, with four ...
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 ...
1948–present. Flag of the People's Liberation Army [ 4 ] A red field with a yellow star at the canton, and the Chinese numerals for "8" and "1", the date of the PLA's establishment on 1 August 1927. 1992–present. Ensign of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force [ 4 ] The PLA flag with a green stripe at the bottom. 1950s.
Cinema of China No. of screens 86,300 (2023) • Per capita 2.98 per 100,000 (2016) Main distributors China Film (32.8%) Huaxia (22.89%) Enlight (7.75%) Produced feature films (2016) Fictional 772 Animated 49 Documentary 32 Number of admissions (2016) Total 1,370,000,000 • Per capita 1 Gross box office (2023) Total CN¥54.9 billion (US$7.73 billion) National films 58.33% The cinema of China ...
National emblem of the Republic of China (1912–1927) and the Empire of China (1915–1916). 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.
1931–1940. Flag of the Republic of China from 1928. 1930: Central Plains War broke out. 1931: Japanese invasion of Manchuria. 1932: Pacification of Manchukuo. 1933: Defense of the Great Wall. 1936: Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his subordinates Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led Nationalist government of the ROC and the CCP lasting intermittently between 1927 and 1949. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude: from the August 1927 to 1937, the First United Front collapsed during the Northern Expedition, and the Nationalists controlled most of China.