China - Republic. CHINA: Republic, military medal, 1938, Commemorative Medal of the Restoration Government of the Republic of China, Beiyang style with zhonghua minguo weixin zhengfu above three golden five-pointed stars, crossed Five-colored flags at center, ji nian zhang below, all enameled and set on five-colored octagonal star, struck in gold-plated copper, with original five-colored ribbon, includes hanger and box of issue, EF. The Reformed Government of the Republic of China was a Chinese puppet state created by Japan that existed from 1938 to 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The regime had little authority or popular support, nor did it receive international recognition even from Japan itself, lasting only two years before it was merged with the Provisional Government into the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China under Wang Jingwei.
