Chinese badge identification

[Samarccha]

Can anyone help identify this Chinese badge thanks

[David Tremain]

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.

David

[Samarccha]

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

[David Tremain]

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.

David

[BWEF]

Also, at the end of the Chinese Civil War the Nationalist army retreated to Taiwan, so they might have taken their badges with them?

[Madziro]

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.