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1949-OCT-1, coat of arms adopted 1950-SEP-20 by Zejlko Heimer
According to Carol P. Shaw in the book Flags (Running Press),
the red of the flag is the traditional color of revolution; the
large gold star represents "the Common Program of the Communist
Party"; and the smaller gold stars represent the four classes
united by the common program: the workers, the peasants, the
petty bourgeois, and capitalists sympathetic to the Party (or
"patriotic capitalists"). Bruce Tindall, 03 April 1996 Very
early versions of the flag has been in use since the early 1920s
by the Communist Party, but was modified to become the present
national flag in 1949. Xuess Wee York Ting , 25 September 1996
When I lived in PRC from 1987-88, I asked about the symbolism of
the flag. I was told by several university professors and
students on several differe