Wang Pseudo-postal Research

On March 28th.1938, the Puppet Government of Reform came on stage. Its Post Office was almost the same one that had been established since the year of 1912. And as a puppet regime, its command and supervision over post of enemy-occupied area was incomprehensible. From 1938 to early 1940, the Puppet Government of Reform firstly recovered many post offices which had been closed or had been moved into Western China because of the Anti-Japanese War, then it reorganised those post offices, strived to post revival. What had been done to restore post of enemy-occupied area by the Puppet Government of Reform had actually paved the way for post development of the Wang Puppet Regime.After the establisment of Wang Puppet Regime, the year of 1943 was a boundary of its post development, which meant there were two period divided by it, one could be called times of Ministry of Transportation, and another, times of Ministry of Construction, moreover, both of them had its own distinguishing features. When it comes to the times of Ministry of Transportation, the Post Office had done the same thing, just like the Post Office of Puppet Government of Reform. Meanwhile, for the reasons of War,there was a Shanghai Office, which was established by the General Post Office. And the Wang Puppet Regime had also created the Preparatory Office of the General Post Office for political considerations. Also, the post development status of this moment can be found out through such as taking back its command and supervision over the Office of the General Post Office of Shanghai by the authorities,increased postage, ail mails, mail delivery and exchange and so on.At the times of Ministry of Construction, the Post Telecommuncations Division replaced the Post Office. After the postal adjustment, the real power of Shanghai Office was taken by the Japanese. What's more, with there been more and more Japanese who worked in post offices, influencies of Japanese gradually increased.After the declaration of war to United States and Britain, Wang Puppet Regime followed paces of Japan gradually. And its post development was bounded with war machine. Increased postage, halt mailing with enemy countries, for instance, the United States , the Britain and so on, mail inspection, all of them were characteristics of war.The direct reflection of Wang Puppet Regime's post controlled by the Japanese was the post adjustment. And just after post adjustment, with the excuse of development of alleged Greater East Asia War, all of real power divisions of Wang Puppet Regime's post were occupied by the Japanese. There were two main points about the post adjustment, one was about personnel changes in post offices, and another was lifting of military management over post offices. Anyway, intensions to post revival after the post adjustment was planed to achive through loans. After all,the point of post adjustment lied in analysing in details the real control of Wang Puppet Regime's post by the Japanese.In a word, while time vertically the development of Wang Puppet Regime's post autually had three stages, which were the times of Puppet Government of Reform, the times of Ministry of Transportation and the times of Ministry of Construction. In the horizontal direction, its post included many aspects, such as administrative organization system, specific postal services, postal economy, postal rights, post adjustment and so on. Shang Hai post was a reflection of Wang Puppet Regime's entire post. The puppet nature of Wang Puppet Regime in post development was just like features of real control by the Japanese. Meanwhile, with development of the Pacific War, Wang Puppet Regime's post autually had became a part of war machine.Therefore, what we will acknowledge from development of Wang Puppet Regime's post are war, politic, economy and living conditon of that time in those areas.