Reformed Government of the Republic of China
Reformed Government of the Republic of China 中華民國維新政府 Zhōnghuá Mínguó Wéixīn Zhèngfǔ Chūka minkoku Ishin Seifu | |||||||||||
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| 1938–1940 | |||||||||||
| Anthem: Song to the Auspicious Cloud (1938–1940) | |||||||||||
Territory of the Reformed Government in central China | |||||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized State ; Puppet regime of the Empire of Japan | ||||||||||
| Capital | Nanking | ||||||||||
| Largest city | Shanghai | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Chinese | ||||||||||
| Government | Dictatorship | ||||||||||
| President of the Executive Yuan | |||||||||||
• 1938–1940 | Liang Hongzhi | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Second Sino-Japanese War | ||||||||||
• Established | 28 March 1938 | ||||||||||
• Merged into Reorganized National Government | 30 March 1940 | ||||||||||
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The Reformed Government of the Republic of China (simplified Chinese: 中华民国维新政府; traditional Chinese: 中華民國維新政府; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Wéixīn Zhèngfǔ; Japanese: Chūka minkoku Ishin Seifu) was a puppet state created by Japan that existed in eastern China 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. Due to the extensive powers of the Japanese advisors within the government and its own limited powers, the Reformed Government was not much more than an arm of the Japanese military administration.