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Old 06-09-15, 11:52 AM
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Default Chinese badge identification

Can anyone help identify this Chinese badge thanks
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Old 06-09-15, 06:10 PM
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The star often appears in Taiwanese symbols, such as the Taiwan flag, so it could be from there, but what it's from I don't know.

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Old 07-09-15, 06:29 PM
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The man i bought it from said Chinese. so maybe I'm looking at the wrong nationality that's why I can't find anything on it
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Old 07-09-15, 07:35 PM
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They both speak Mandarin (well some Chinese speak Cantonese, depending on where they live, like Hong Kong), except the Taiwanese script is much more elaborate It is the old script which Mao essentially abolished in China to make it more accessible for the barely literate. Ethnically the Taiwanese and the Chinese are the same, so in a sense the man was right.

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Old 08-09-15, 07:46 AM
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Also, at the end of the Chinese Civil War the Nationalist army retreated to Taiwan, so they might have taken their badges with them?
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Old 11-09-15, 03:21 PM
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I think your badge is Taiwanese. I was given this cap by a member of their army some years ago and the star badge has the same colours blue / white which comes from their flag.
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Old 11-09-15, 06:12 PM
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Do you think it is a cap badge
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Old 24-10-16, 03:08 AM
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It should be a memorial badge instead of a offical military cap badge of taiwanese army. I think it belong to the time period that ROC government still rule the whole china (PRC government still not exist in the world )
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Quite a nice find, pity no date of issue is found, but understandable.

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Old 01-08-19, 08:04 AM
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Did some research. This badge is a memorial badge issued by the Nationalist Chinese government during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937 - 1945.

Here are the translations of the Chinese Characters:

the centre of the badge says , "Pride of the Party (Nationalist) and Nation"

the sides of the badge say, "Memorial Badge Awarded to the People of Xinggan County (Jiangxi Province) for Fighting off the Enemy".

this was likely awarded during the late 1930s and onwards as the Jiangxi province was the place where a series of brutal battles were fought between China and Japan.


Hope this helps.

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