1928 in China
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Events in the year 1928 in China.
Incumbents
- President – Zhang Zuolin, Tan Yankai, Chiang Kai-shek
- Premier – Pan Fu, Tan Yankai
- Vice Premier – Feng Yuxiang
Events
February
- 7 February – Tan Yankai became the first Chairman of the Nationalist Government.
March
- 26 March – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
April
- 30 April – Beiyang government troops withdrew from Jinan.
May
- 3 May – Jinan Incident, an armed conflict between the Japanese Imperial Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army, occurs in Jinan.[1][2][3][4][5]
June
- 4 June – Huanggutun Incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin).[6]
July
- 1 July – Zhang Xueliang announced an armistice with the Kuomintang and proclaimed that he would not interfere with the re-unification.
- 3 July – Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Beijing and met the representative from the Fengtian clique to discuss a peaceful settlement.
- 8 July – Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum.
- 25 July – The United States recalls its troops from China.
October
- 8 October – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission) of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China.
December
- 29 December – Chinese reunification.[7]
Births
January
- January 1 — Wu Yangjie, organic chemist
- January 2 — Nie Bichu, 11th Mayor of Tianjin (d. 2018)
- January 5 — Qian Qichen, 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs of China (d. 2017)
February
- February 3 — Hou Feng, plant breeding engineer (d. 2020)
- February 12 — Wang Yeping, spouse of the 4th Paramount Leader Jiang Zemin
- February 17 — Zhang Shourong, metallurgist (d. 2024)
- February 23 — Zhang Cunhao, physical chemist (d. 2024)
March
- March 7 — Lee Shau-kee, Hong Kong business magnate, investor and philanthropist
- March 11 — Zhao Lirong, singer and film actress (d. 2000)
- March 19 — Sutano Djuhar, Indonesian Chinese businessman, investor and philanthropist (d. 2018)
July
- July 26 — Zong Pu, novelist
- July 28 — Ng Teng Fong, Singaporean real estate tycoon (d. 2010)
- July 29 — Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor and philanthropist
- Zhao Baotong, MiG-15 pilot (d. 2003)
August
- August 1
- Zhang Wannian, general of the People's Liberation Army (d. 2015)
- Shen Daren, 7th Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2017)
- August 18 — John Liu Shi-gong, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
October
- October 20 — Li Peng, 4th Premier of China (d. 2019)
- October 21 — Yu Kwang-chung, Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic (d. 2017)
- October 23 — Zhu Rongji, 5th Premier of China
Dates unknown
- Sun Shenlu, pilot of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (d. 1952)
Deaths
- 30 March – Xia Minghan
- 3 May – Cai Gongshi
- 3 June – Li Yuanhong
- 4 June – Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng
- 14 October – Chen Jue
References
- ^ Li Jiazhen (1987) Jinan Tragedy p 238,
- ^ Iriye, After Imperialism, 199–201.
- ^ Ji'nan Government (1 September 2005). "The Year of 1928". Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
蔡公时用日语抗议，日兵竟将其耳鼻割去，继又挖去舌头、眼睛。日军将被缚人员的衣服剥光，恣意鞭打，然后拉至院内用机枪扫射
- ^ An Xiang: "Second Northern Expedition 1928: Part II" Archived 11 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), 82–83.
- ^ Beasley, Japanese Imperialism. p. 187.
- ^ Republic of China historical annal: 1928 Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine under 1 July, section A.
Bibliography
- Beasley, W.G. (1991). Japanese Imperialism 1894–1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822168-1.
- Akira Iriye, After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921–1931 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965; reprinted:Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1990): 193–205.
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