1929 in China

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.
• June 7–18: Battle of Liuzhou, Guangxi between armies of New Guangxi clique and Hunan

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. (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. (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.
• 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)
• June 18 — Zaize, Manchu noble (b. 1868)
• 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)

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