Dadao government (Shanghai 1937-1940)

The Dadao puppet municipal government of Shanghai (1937–1940):was one of a series Japanese-made "countries" and political entities set up in occupied China.

The timeline for these successive creations can be tracked through their flags:

• Hopei Puppet State Flag (1931–32)
• First Mongol State Banner (1932–33)
• the first political entity flag in Shanghai (1937)
• Dadao puppet Independent Municipality Banner (1937)
• First Wang Chingwei State Flag (1940)

Apparently no limits were set to the creation of "political entities" or "independent nations" in Japanese-controlled lands, before or during the Pacific War. Presumably the multiplication was to try to attract collaborators, none of whom would have a large personal power: an application of 'divide and conquer'.

These "countries" are as follows.

The First Political banner entity in Shanghai(1937)

This refers to one political "independent" entity why Japanese making during first times of occupation in Shanghai.The flag used was yellow with a green and red yin-yang in the center. It had a very short existence.

Dadao Puppet Independent Flag Municipality (1937)

This "independent" entity existed in Shanghai for a few years, being absorbed into the Nanjing pro-Japanese government in 1940. Its flag was a taiji (yin-yang) symbol on a yellow backgroun. respect at these entity i cited directly the next text provided from the article "Hanjian! --Collaboration and Retribution in War time Shanghai" by Frederic Wakeman Jr., a historian in UC Berkeley. This article was published in the book "Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond" (edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California Press, 2000):

On December 5 1937, Su Xiwen, a Waseda-educated philosopher, inaugurated "the Great Way" (the Dadao) puppet municipal government of Shanghai. Su had taught political theory at the private Chizhi University in Jiangwan. His Buddhist-Daoist syncretism ("All under heaven one family / Myriad laws revert to one" influenced the Great Way government's choice of flag, which is a taiji (=yin-yang) symbol on a yellow background.[...]

In truth, the Dadao puppet government was short-lived, at least in nomenclature. The malodorous characteristics of its leading members, a potpourri of Venerable Mother religious cultists, smugglers, gamblers, narcotics dealers, panderers, and former rickshaw pullers, were liability enough. But just as damaging was the Japanese handlers' contempt for Su Xiwen, whose philosophizing was not taken very seriously after the Special Services brought in a tough north China hanjian (collaborationist) named Wang Zihui to run their Shanghai operations.

[...]Consequently, after the puppet administration in north China was incorporated in January into a single provisional government, in South China a "Reform Government" was set up in March 1938 in Nanjing headed by Liang Hongzhi.

[...] Shanghai sympathizers [...] tepidly celebrated the establishment of the Reform Government on March 28, 1938. The puppet Self-Government Committee held one meeting in the Confucian Temple where, under the old five-bar national flag of the Beiyang warlords

[...]Within a month, on April 28, 1938, the Reform Government has commissioned a Supervisionary Yamen to take over the functions of municipal administration formerly wielded by the Dadao puppet regime. Su Xiwen formally recognized the superior legitimacy of the Reform Government by adopting its flag in May 3..."

Hopei Puppet Stateflag (1931–32)

these political entity created and managed for Japanese North Chinese Army and your "native" japanese stablishment,are founded in first attempts during 1931–32,at same time why Japanese forces taken the Jehol province to Manchukuo Puppet state. They adopted the five color flag, and used a different national anthem. It was later changed to KMT Colours,similar at Wang-Chingwei "country" in 1940.

First Mongol State banner (1932–33)

these entity organized for Japanese, stay ubiqued in Chahar area. theirs used the flag with Blue background with yellow,red and white square colours in superior left side. more later these "nation" for sugest of Kanji Tsuneoka, Japanese "consellor" in area,adopted the Mengjiang banner of Mongol Prince Tew Wang's government.

First Wang-Chingwei State Flag (1940)

Following the creation of a Chinese central government in Nanjing,30 March 1940, under Japanese Central Chinese Army control,a national flag was adopted by the pro-Japanese government of China. It consisted of the five stripes (red over yellow over blue over white over black) with a flame in the centre with the words "Peace, Reconstruction, Anticommunism" (in Chinese characters).more later in 1941- 42 these government for Japanese sugestion adopted the KMT flag and signs how represent the "real" chinese government why aid the "Just" Japanese Cause.

Certainly at same time the Japanese South Chinese Army take idea and conformed any "state" or "political entity" in Canton or any areaunder influence sphere too,with proper flag, money and,"native" leaders and for suppose your "local" japanese civil entitystablishment how occured in other Japanese Fiefs in China mainland.

if noted why existed such disagreement,egoism and created interest why inclusive Proper Imperial Japanese Army forces in China stay divided in present form,how ocurred in other areas managed for these japanese armed branch and more extreme respect at Imperial Japanese Navy influence areas nearest of Japanese Army sectors, during Pacific wartimes