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1940 in China
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Events in the year
1940 in
China
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Incumbents
President
:
Lin Sen
Premier
:
Chiang Kai-shek
Vice Premier
:
H.H. Kung
Foreign Minister:
Wang Ch'ung-hui
Events
March 16 – April 3 —
Battle of Wuyuan
May 1 – June 18 —
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
November 25–30 —
Central Hubei Operation
Births
January
January 4 —
Gao Xingjian
, Chinese-French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director and translator
January 14 —
Li Guanxing
, nuclear material engineer (d.
2020
)
January 16 —
Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai
, 11th Qamdo Pagbalha Hutuktu of Tibetan Buddhism and politician
January 17
Hua Jianmin
, former
State Councilor
of China
Anson Chan
, Hong Kong politician and civil servant
February
February 29 —
Lydia Dunn
, Hong Kong-born British businesswoman and politician
March
March 8 —
Jia Qinglin
, 7th
Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Zhang Fusen
, politician
April
April 24 —
Allen Lee
, industrialist, politician and political commentator (d.
2020
)
Jiang Shusheng
, physicist and politician
June
Liao Xilong
, general of the People's Liberation Army
August
August 14 —
Zhang Lina
, physical chemist (d.
2020
)
August 22 —
Shi Guangnan
, composer (d.
1990
)
Chen Mingyi
, 5th
Governor of Fujian
Guo Baochang
, director, screenwriter, writer and playwright (d.
2023
)
October
October 3 —
Liu Yongqing
, former Spouse of the
Paramount Leader of China
October 8 —
Liu Yingming
, mathematician (d.
2016
)
October 20 —
Li Zhaoxing
, 9th
Minister of Foreign Affairs of China
November
November 27 —
Bruce Lee
, Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (d.
1973
)
December
December 9 —
Liang Guanglie
, 10th
Minister of National Defense of China
(d.
2024
)
December 17 —
Lü Zhong
, actress
December 18 —
Lei Feng
, soldier of the
People's Liberation Army
(d.
1962
)
December 22 —
Bai Yilong
, mechanist (d.
2024
)
Huang Hengmei
, lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army
Date unknown
Yu Lina
, violinist pedagogue
Patsy Toh
, British pianist
Deaths
February 23 —
Yang Jingyu
, Communist military commander and political commissar (b.
1905
)
March 4 —
Gao Lingwei
, politician (b.
1870
)
March 5 —
Cai Yuanpei
, philosopher and politician (b.
1868
)
April 5 —
Song Zheyuan
, general (b.
1885
)
May 14 —
Luo Zhenyu
, classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher, antiquarian and Qing loyalist (b.
1866
)
May 16 —
Zhang Zizhong
, general (b.
1891
)
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August 1 —
Ma Junwu
, scientist and educator (b.
1881
)
September 26 —
Xu Qian
, politician and jurist (b.
1871
)
December 1 —
Shi Yousan
, 9th Governor of
Chahar
(b.
1891
)
December 31 —
Xiao Youmei
, music educator and composer (b.
1884
)
See also
List of Chinese films of the 1940s
References
↑
Chen, Minjie (22 January 2016).
The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature: Friends and Foes on the Battlefield
. Routledge. p.
123.
ISBN
978-1-317-50880-9
.
↑
Waldron, Arthur (October 1996).
"China's New Remembering of World War II: The Case of Zhang Zizhong"
.
Modern Asian Studies
. pp.
945–
978.
doi
:
10.1017/S0026749X00016851
. Retrieved
12 November
2024
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