Talk:List of Chinese flags

I've got two questions in mind. Should "Chinese" be equated with the PRC? and if not, shall we add the flags used by the ROC, as well as the flag used by the Ch'ing government? The other question is that as far as I remember colonial Macau had no flag. The flag was used by the concelhos de Macau (there's another flag for the concelhos das Ilhas). — Instantnood 17:59, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

• As PRC and ROC are different countries, I think it is best to keep them seperate. Chinese is more closely associated with PRC and Tiawanese for the ROC. The historical flag for Macua is the Government of Macau's flag, rather than the actual colony's flag- according to the Flag of Macua page. Astrotrain 19:35, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

  It was the flag of Concelho de Macau. Concelho das Ilhas had another flag. — Instantnood 13:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Hui or Uyghur?

What did the white colour on this flag represent? The flag of the Republic of China article says Hui instead of Uyghur. Did the Republic of China government in those times use "Hui" to cover all people who practised Islam, including the Uyghurs? — Instantnood 13:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

it represented all muslims in china 162.84.135.252 (talk) 05:19, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Manchukuo, Mengkiang, etc.

Should the maps of Manchukuo, Mengkiang, etc. be added to the historical section? — Instantnood 13:43, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Flag used in Portuguese Macau

I have swapped the pale blue flag used on the page for Macau because the flag that was listed in the edits prior to mine showed a variant of the government's flag (see image here.) This flag never really was official. According to FOTW, the flag of Portugal was:

Please note that this flag shouldn't be used to represent "Portuguese Macao," officially only the Portuguese national flag will do. Unofficially most people prefer the future Special Economic Region flag, or the municipal flag of Macao City.

see FOTW for more.

In pre 1999 editions of the CIA World Factbook, the Portuguese flag was listed as the flag of Macau. See this entry from the 1999 Factbook, in particularly the flag listing and image.

Finally, this image on the BBC website was taken around the 1999 handover. You will see the Portuguese flag being taken down the flag pole, not the Macau government flag.

I hope this helps.

- Thanks, Hoshie | 11:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

why use an outdated version flag of Macau?

This, File:Macau flag.gif, is the actual flag being used in Macau. Why change into the original version which is not being used????--HeiChon~XiJun 14:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Early Chinese army flag

The early Chinese Republic's army flag should also be included (this seems to have been important in the 1920's). There's a version of it at Image:Sjxqi.gif, but the proportions may not be quite right there (see a historic depiction in Image:Republic of China Flags.jpg). AnonMoos 06:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Finally added it... AnonMoos 02:12, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Remove statement

Before the handovers, the People's Republic of China recognised Hong Kong and Macau as its territory though they were not under its direct control. The Republic of China also recognised these regions as part of ROC territory, just as the ROC claims sovereignty over mainland China. But some may not recognise pre-handover Hong Kong and Macau as parts of China and many controversies exist.

This is incorrect. Before 1997, the PRC recognized British sovereignty over Hong Kong, and between 1975 and 1999, the status of Macao was agreed to be Chinese territory under Portugeuse administration.

ROC and PRC should be separate

Ok i think the flags for ROC and the flags of PRC should really seperate. --Jerrypp772000 22:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Since this is a listing of Chinese flags, both should be included here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aldis90 (talk • contribs) 01:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

The ROC national flag should be here as it was a Chinese flag until 1949. But why are the counties of Taiwan listed here? The fact is that the question of whether Taiwan is part of China is disputed. Wiki policy is to show both sides of a dispute without taking sides. By putting Taiwan's flags here we implicitly side with those who believe Taiwan is part of China. Were we to remove the flags, we would implicitly side with those who believe Taiwan is not part of China. I believe the best way to handle this is to make a note on the page that there is a dispute and link to one of the pages that covers the dispute. Readin (talk) 15:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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Expand, translate from ZH Wiki

Referring to w:zh:中国国旗 from the ZH Wiki, that article is very in depth, giving detailed explanations and histories of each of the flags, and is marked as GA. The EN Wiki article in my opinion needs a bit more expansion, so that it becomes more than just "a list". The ZH version discusses different early drafts of the ROC flag, etc. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 16:09, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Flags of the Municipality of Macau

China was censoring Google. Is it censoring WikiPedia as well???

Where are the 1975 – 1999 Flag of the Municipality of Macau and the Flag de facto used to represent the Portuguese territory of Macao? There seems to be discriptions for them, yet the flags don't appear. Graphs appear for other municipalities which may or may not, or never did have flags. But how can we really know now?

Is China throwing them down the Orwellian Memory Hole? It would be a shame if WikiPedia is now being hijacked by Chinese nationals who want to control the past.210.133.127.14 (talk) 07:16, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

First, it would be nice if you wouldn't approach the subject with unnecessary melodrama. Images get deleted all the time, but generally for copyright reasons. We do have several Portuguese era flags in commons:Category:Flags of Macau, but after a little poking around on the FOTW site, I don't feel confident that any of them is either of the two described in this "List of Chinese flags" article... AnonMoos (talk) 08:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed merge with List of Taiwanese flags

A lot of the flags here is also covered in list of Chinese flags and there are relatively few ones that are covered here but not there, thus I propose the merge TheChampionMan1234 08:30, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

This is a good idea, however, it wold be easier to keep the status quo due to the List of Chinese flags article being extremely large and having them separate would make it easier to find the List of Taiwanese flags. Also, with the PRC and the ROC being separate sovereign states, it makes sense for the articles to remain separate for now. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk) 00:20, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Chocolate manufacturer collector card

TibetanFlag-before1912

This flag does not seem to exist other than on a chocolate manufacturer collector card. It was created by a Common user with the chocolate card as only source. Is it OK for a speedy removal?--6-A04-W96-K38-S41-V38 (talk) 13:26, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Removed from the list as per discussion here.--6-A04-W96-K38-S41-V38 (talk) 15:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)