{"id":225,"date":"2016-01-23T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:37:16","slug":"politics-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The appearance of mainland Chinese stamps changed with the regime in 1949.<\/strong> The Nationalist Party of the Republic of China retreated offshore to Taiwan and the Communist Party took control. After the move to Taiwan, stamps of the Republic of China continued to depict prominent figures of the Nationalist Party, such as party founder and first president <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Yat-sen\">Sun Yat-sen<\/a> and military leader <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiang_Kai-shek\">Chiang Kai-shek<\/a>. Meanwhile, stamps of the People\u2019s Republic of China resolutely promoted the new Communist order with portraits of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mao_Zedong\">Chairman Mao Zedong<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prolific use of red<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and communist symbolism.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-374\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-807x1024.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx024md\" width=\"519\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-100x127.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-150x190.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-200x254.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-300x381.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-450x571.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-600x761.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md-900x1142.jpg 900w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx024md.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Republic of China<\/strong>, 1945 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s album page \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>George S. Champlin Memorial Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-373\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-807x1024.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx025md\" width=\"522\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-100x127.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-150x190.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-200x254.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-300x381.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-450x571.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-600x761.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md-900x1142.jpg 900w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx025md.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>People\u2019s Republic of China<\/strong>, 1950 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s album page \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Irene Heneghan Stamp Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx026md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-372\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx026md-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx026md\" width=\"518\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Envelope with canceled postage stamps (People\u2019s Republic of China, 1950)<\/strong> \u00a0 | \u00a0 Mailed within Shanghai, China, 1950 \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Irene Heneghan Stamp Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of mainland Chinese stamps changed with the regime in 1949. The Nationalist Party of the Republic of China retreated offshore to Taiwan and the Communist Party took control. After the move to Taiwan, stamps of the Republic of China continued to depict prominent figures of the Nationalist Party, such as party founder and <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/1029"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}