The Reformed Government of the Republic of China 中華民國維新政府 (Chuka Minkoku Ishin Seifu?) was a Japanese puppet state that existed from 1938 to 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.[1]
History
After the retreat of Kuomingtang forces from Nanjing after 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. 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. [2] The Reformed Government was, along with the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, merged into Wang Jingwei's Beijing-based Nanjing Nationalist Government on 30 March 1940.
References
- Black, Jeremy (2002). World War Two: A Military History. Routeledge. ISBN 0415305357.
- Brune, Lester H. (2002). Chronological History of US Foreign Relations. Routeledge. ISBN 041593916X.
- Wasserman, Bernard (1999). Secret War in Shanghai: An Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Treason in World War II. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395985374.
