1929 in China

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Events from the year 1929 in China.

Incumbents

• Chairman of the Nationalist government: 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

• May 15: First Battle of Guilin: Hunan Army attacks Guilin, Guangxi
• May 17–21: Second Battle of Guangzhou between New Guangxi clique and Guangdong Army

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

• August 26 – the Karakhan Manifesto was published by the Soviet press, but the document failed to mention neither the return of CER to the Chinese nor the lack of financial compensation. ^[3] (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))

September

• September 23 – Liu Zhennian launches a campaign to crush the Red Spears' uprising in Shandong (1928–1929).

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

• December – Gutian Congress

Births

January

• January 13 — Ge Cunzhuang, actor (d. 2016)

February

• February 24 — Su Wenmao, xiangsheng comedian (d. 2015)

March

• March 8 — Zeng Yi, virologist (d. 2020)

April

• April 7 — Yang Jie, television director and producer (d. 2017)
• April 8 — Sun Jiadong, aerospace engineer

May

• May 15 — Zhou Guangzhao, theoretical physicist (d. 2024)

June

• June 4 — Tian Jiyun, former Vice Premier of China
• June 21 — Ying Ruocheng, actor, director, playwright and former Vice Minister of Culture (d. 2003)
• June 30 — Yang Ti-liang, senior Hong Kong judge (d. 2023)

July

• July 4 — Tan Shaowen, 10th Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1993)
• July 9 — Chi Haotian, 8th Minister of National Defense
• July 13 — Hou Yunde, virologist, geneticist and genetic engineer
• July 30 — Ji Chaozhu, diplomat (d. 2020)
• Chen Jinhua, politician (d. 2016)

August

• August 9 — Lui Che-woo, Hong Kong business magnate, investor and philanthropist (d. 2024)
• August 15 — Xiao Yang, 11th Mayor of Chongqing (d. 1998)

September

• Ding Guangen, 8th Minister of Railways (d. 2012)

October

• October 13 — Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter (d. 2010)
• October 15 — Dong Cunrui, soldier in the People's Liberation Army (d. 1948)
• October 19 — Deng Sanrui, shipbuilding engineer (d. 2020)

November

• November 15 — Li Guangxi, national-level actor (d. 2022)
• November 26 — Tang Chongti, parasitologist
• November 28 — Yu Lihua, Taiwanese writer (d. 2020)
• Mao Zhiyong, politician (d. 2019)

December

• December 26 — Gong Yuzhi, theorist and politician in the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2007)
• December 29
  • Shen Jilan, politician (d. 2020)
  • He Zhenliang, politician and diplomat (d. 2015)
• December 31 — Guo Lanying, operatic soprano

Dates unknown

• Li Senmao, 9th Minister of Railways (d. 1996)

Deaths

• January 5 — Wang Daxie, 14th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1859)
• January 10
  • Yang Yuting, general in the Fengtian Army (b. 1885)
  • Chang Yinhuai, statesman and general (b. 1888)
• January 19 — Liang Qichao, politician, social and political activist, journalist and intellectual (b. 1873)
• February 25 — Su Zhaozheng, early leader of the Chinese Communist Party and a labour movement activist (b. 1885)
• March 18 — Lü Yanzhi, architect (b. 1894)
• August 30 — Peng Pai, pioneer of the Chinese agrarian movement and a leading revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1896)

Dates unknown

• Chu Yupu, general (b. 1887)

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. 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