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Regular government postal servicein China is known from the Zhou Dynasty in the
1st millennium BC. The 1727 Treaty of
Kyakhta with Russia provided for the first regular exchange of mail.
on 1 May 1878, and China's first postage stamps, the "Large
Dragons", were issued .The stamps were inscribed "CHINA" in both Latin
and Chinese characters.
The first new stamps, inscribed "IMPERIAL CHINESE POST" went on sale 16
August 1897. The 3c blue-green of the 1898 series was first issued in
1910, one of the last stamps of imperial China.In 1898, these were
superseded by similar designs produced by engraving in London, and
inscribed "CHINESE IMPERIAL POST" on a Chinese supplied watermarked
paper of varying thickness.
The first commemorative stamps of China were issued in 1909 to mark the
1st year of the reign of the Xuantong Emperor.
.The revolution of 1911 resulted in
overprints on the imperial stamps in 1912; at Foochow to indicate that
the post office was effectively a neutral area available to both sides,
and at Nanking and Shanghai reading "Republic of China". .
The first new designs of the Republic were two commemorative sets of 12
each
issued on 14 December, 1912.
China produced five new commemorative issues, of four stamps each,
during the 1920s.
New definitives in 1931 depicted Sun Yat-sen. but 1931 also saw the
invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese and the formation of Manchukuo,
which issued its own stamps.
after the war severe inflation required a steady stream of overprints .
1947 saw a number of commemorative issues, and further inflation.In
1948, a gold yuan standard was adopted- Next year the government adopted
a silver yuan standard, and overprinted still more stamps as well as
reissuing the Sun Yat-sen design valued in 1-500 cents.
Philatelists conventionally split into two separate topics at this
point:
Postage stamps and postal history of the People's Republic of China
Postage stamps and postal history of the Republic of China
Postage stamps and postal history of Hong Kong
Postage stamps and postal history of Macau
Sun Yat-sen stamps
People's Republic of China Regional Issues
Central China (People's Post) , East China (People's Post) , North China
(People's Post) ,
North East China (People's Post) , North West China (People's Post) ,
Port Arthur and Dairen , Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia , South China (People's
Post) , South West China (People's Post) .
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