1929 in China

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1929
in
China

Decades:
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
See also:Other events of 1929
History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1929 in China.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Chiang Kai-shek
  • Premier: Tan Yankai
  • Vice Premier: Feng Yuxiang

Events[]

March[]

  • March 5 – Yi Peiji was appointed as the president of the National Palace Museum and the curator of the antiquities museum by Nationalist Government.

April[]

  • April 1 – Zhifu is captured by rebel forces in course of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong, and subsequently largely destroyed.
  • April 11 – Battle of Yichang in western Hubei between the armies of the Sichuan clique and New Guangxi clique
  • Mid-April – Zhang Zongchang's warlord rebel army in northeastern Shandong collapses as result of indiscipline and a government counter-offensive.

May[]

June[]

  • June 6 – 1929 Westlake exposition was opened.[1][2]
  • June 7–18: Battle of Liuzhou, Guangxi between armies of New Guangxi clique and Hunan
  • June 21: Battle of Guiping in Guangxi between New Guangxi clique and the National Revolutionary Army

July[]

  • July 25 – the Soviet government's Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Lev Karakhan, had issued a manifesto to the Chinese government promising the return of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Chinese control with no financial cost.[3] (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))

August[]

September[]

October[]

  • October 10 – the closing of the 1929 Westlake exposition.
  • October 18–24: battle at Zhengzhou, Henan between Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and National Revolutionary Army

November[]

  • November – The Red Spear Society ceases to exist on the northern Shandong Peninsula as result of Liu Zhennian's counter-insurgency campaign.
  • November 20 – Taiping Fire and Marine Insurance, as predecessor of China Taiping Insurance was founded in Shanghai.[citation needed]
  • November 30 – end of battle of Heishiguan

December[]

Births[]

  • June 30 – Yang Ti-liang, senior Hong Kong judge
  • October 13 – Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter (d. 2010)
  • December 29 – Shen Jilan, Chinese politician (d. 2020)
  • Dong Cunrui

Deaths[]

  • January 10 – Yang Yuting (warlord)
  • January 19 – Liang Qichao
  • February 20 – Su Zhaozheng
  • August 30 – Peng Pai

References[]

  1. ^ China.com.cn. "China.com.cn." 杭州西湖博覽會博物館. Retrieved on May 8, 2010.
  2. ^ "The West Lake International Expo Hangzhou, China". Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Elleman; Bruce A.; The Soviet Union's Secret Diplomacy Concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1924–1925; Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53 (1994), S. 461
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