Qing Restorationists (Alternate)

Qing Restorationism was a movement in the Republic of China which aimed to reestablish a Qing Empire under a Constitutional Monarchy, but had been criticized as an restoration of the autocratic system of monarchy that China has had for 5000 years. It is currently a government in exile in Moscow, Soviet Union.

The movement was very frowned upon by the general Chinese public, as it forced all citizens under their occupation to follow their traditions, such as the act that all men must have a Queue hairstyle or they will be executed. Furthermore, as Puyi, the former emperor of the former Qing before 1912, and the regime mentioned here, served as Emperor of Manchukuo, which was a Japanese puppet state, Puyi is considered by the public as a Hanjian, thus unable to serve the nation unlike a normal ruler.

The movement's military wing were remnants of the Manchukuo Army, and parts of the Beiyang army, and frequently engages in battle with the Nationalist Government's National Revolutionary Army in Northeastern China. Newsreels from 1948 show that there was extensive militarization of the population but there was no cases of conscription for any of the citizens. The forces engaged in combat with the National Revolutionary Army, later the Republic of China Armed Forces, and certain peacekeeping USA armies.