1928 in China

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.

June

• 4 June – Huanggutun Incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin).

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.

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

November

• November 5 — Gyalo Thondup, Tibetan politician (d. 2025)

Dates unknown

• Sun Shenlu, pilot of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (d. 1952)

Deaths

• March 21 — Zhang Shaozeng, 15th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1879)
• March 30 — Xia Minghan, early leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution (b. 1900)
• April 30 — Gu Hongming, British Malaya born Chinese man of letters (b. 1857)
• May 1 — Xiang Jingyu, pioneer of the women's movement of China (b. 1895)
• May 3 — Cai Gongshi, nationalist politician and diplomat (b. 1881)
• June 3 — Li Yuanhong, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1864)
• June 4 — Huanggutun incident
• Zhang Zuolin, warlord of Manchuria and leader of the Fengtian clique (b. 1875)
• Wu Junsheng, general and commander-in-chief of the cavalry in the Northeastern Army (b. 1863)
• June 6 — Chen Qiaonian, revolutionary and early leader of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1902)
• July 7 — Yang Zengxin, 1st Governor of Xinjiang (b. 1864)
• September 30 — Shi Pingmei, writer (b. 1902)
• October 14 — Chen Jue, communist revolutionary (b. 1903)
• November 6 — Lu Rongting, warlord and head of the Old Guangxi clique (b. 1859)

References

Bibliography

• Beasley, W.G. (1991). Japanese Imperialism 1894–1945. Oxford University Press. .
• 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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