Central China Liberation Area

under construction

The Central China Liberation Area was a postal district under Communist administration. It was made up of Henan (Honan), Hebei (Hopei), Hunan and Jiangxi (Kiangsi) provinces. Some parts of it overlapped parts of the earlier Central China occupation postal district.

All of its stamps were issued without gum.

Central Plains Liberated Area
Section under construction  File:Cen China plains 1y surch.jpg|$1 on $30 surcharge, Chung Chang print. Overprints differ somewhat and are thought to have been done on a mimeograph machine. File:Cen China cen plains surch.jpg|$45 on $50 surcharge, Chen Ming Chan print. File:Cen China surch onrev.jpg 

Chungchow (Henan)

 * In 1948, an imperf horizontal design with Mao was issued.
 * In 1949, the previous values were surcharged crudely in 3 horizontal lines.



Regional issues
These were mostly usable throughout Communist-controlled areas but were normally used mostly in Central China.  File:Cen China Hankow surch 80.jpg|$80 on $1000 Hankow File:Cen China 1y Jiangsu.jpg|$1 on $70 First Jiangxi. Note the differences between the Second and Third Jiangxi Issues. File:Central China 3 workers.jpg|$30 Kuo Kwang print 
 * In 1949, Rep. of China Sun Yat-sen issues were surcharged with Central China post II.png ("Central China post"), Temp use II.png in the center and new values in Arabic and Chinese numerals for Hankow. These have two lines at the bottom, thin (early printings), or thick (late prints).
 * Later in 1949, surcharges on Sun Yat-sen and transportation revenues were issued with a vertical Renminbi trad.png ("renminbi", the currency) and Jiangxi char.png ("Jiangxi") below it. This was the First Jiangxi Issue.
 * A bit later, similar surcharges were issued except in a script font/style. This includes re-surcharges on transportation revenues. This was the Second Jiangxi Issue.
 * Re-surcharges with Peoples Rep Post RtoL.png and diamonds in boxes was applied on Unit stamps and one Sun Yat-sen stamp with existing gold yuan surcharge.
 * Also in 1949, stamps with a design of a farmer, soldier and worker were issued in various perfs. There are two different designs, one with the Arabic numeral repeated in the lower corners, the other with both Arabic and Chinese denominations. The $30 value comes both ways.

 File:Central China star.jpg|$290 star 
 * Also in 1949, a star design was released. There are two types of the $500 and $1000 values.
 * Four Sun yat-sen stamps were again surcharged with Renminbi trad.png and Jiangxi char.png below. The yuan character is narrower. This was the Third Jiangxi Issue.
 * A $20 on 20c value was issued without the two right vertical characters reading Revised.png ("temporary use").
 * Three surcharges had Renminbi trad.png with Jiangxi char.png across it.
 * A $5000 on $1 value was issued with renminbi and Jianxi witten horizontally.
 * Liberation of Hankou (Hankow) commemoratives were issued, perf and imperf.


 * Three surcharges on Sun Yat-sen stamps for Henan (Honan) were issued, with vertical Renminbi trad.png at right and Henan province.png ("Henan Province") below.
 * Overprints on Sun Yat-sen stamps were issued for Henan, reading Henan province.png and Renminbi trad.png in two columns, widely spaced.
 * Henan overprints were again issued, the columns closely spaced.
 * $290 and $370 surcharges on $30 Sun Yat-sen stamps were issued, with Renminbi trad.png at right and the new value in Chinese at right. These were also issued for Honan.
 * Somewhat later, surcharges on the star design stamps were issued, with Revised.png at top and a large arabic numeral for the denomination.

  File:Cen China castle honan ovpt.jpg|$370 Hankow/Wuchang/Hanyang overprinted for Henan File:Cen China star Honan ovpt.jpg|$10000 star with Henan overprint 

Parcel post
 File:Cen China parcel.jpg|1949 $50,000 value 
 * In 1949, the star design was re-used, now with a split inscription on either side of the star reading Parcel post long.png.
 * In December 1949, farmer/soldier/worker definitives were surcharged with new higher values, $200 and higher, with Revised.png horizontally at top, then the value in Chinese, then in large arabic numerals. Nothing except perhaps the values indicate that these are parcel post stamps.

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