Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai | |||||||||
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| 1937–1938 | |||||||||
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| Status | Puppet regime of the Empire of Japan | ||||||||
| Capital | Pudong | ||||||||
| Common languages | Mandarin Chinese Japanese | ||||||||
| Government | Municipal government | ||||||||
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• 1937–1938 | Su Xiwen | ||||||||
| Historical era | Second Sino-Japanese War | ||||||||
• Established | 5 December 1937 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 3 May 1938 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 上海市大道政府 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Shanghai Municipality Great Way Government | ||||||||
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| Kanji | 上海市大道政府 | ||||||||
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The Great Way or Dadao Government, formally the Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai, was a short-lived puppet government proclaimed in Pudong on December 5, 1937, to administer Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.