1934 in China

Events from the year 1934 in China.

Incumbents

• President: Lin Sen
• Premier: Wang Jingwei
• Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi

Events

• April 10 — Fifth Encirclement Campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet: Nationalists begin the attack on the Communist stronghold of Guangchang.
• April 19 — Communists launch a failed attack on Nationalists at Daluoshan. Communist strongholds at Ganzhu and Yanfuzhang taken by Nationalists.
• April 27 — Nationalists capture Guangchang, inflicting 5,500 casualties on the Communists.
• October - Start of Long March

Births

January

• January 1 — Mona Fong, Hong Kong film producer and manager (d. 2017)
• January 15 — Mao Jiangsen, virologist (d. 2023)

February

• February 24 — Zhong Wanxie, civil engineer and physicist (d. 2023)

March

• March 10 — Fou Ts'ong, pianist (d. 2020)
• March 29 — Mei Baojiu, contemporary Peking opera artist (d. 2016)
• Huang Xiaode, exegete and lexicographer (d. 2020)

April

• April 20 — Ji Liangnian, chemist (d. 2024)
• April 24 — Yan Chongnian, historian

June

• June 30 — Zhang Xinshi, plant ecologist (d. 2020)

July

• July 17 — Lucio Tan, Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman, educator

August

• August 2 — Ma Ji, xiangsheng comedian (d. 2006)
• August 6 — Cao Chunxiao, materials scientist (d. 2023)

September

• September 17 — Li Ruihuan, 6th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

October

• October 1 — Zou Deci, city planning engineer (d. 2020)
• October 5 — Kenneth Tsang, Hong Kong actor (d. 2022)
• October 8 — Chor Yuen, Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and actor (d. 2022)

November

• November 2 — Yuan Quan, chemist (d. 2023)

December

• December 5 — He Jing, hydraulic engineer and politician (d. 2019)
• December 14 — Lam Sheung Yee, Hong Kong football defender, coach and announcer (d. 2009)
• December 16 — Meng Zhizhong, satellite engineer (d. 2019)
• December 17 — Shan Tianfang, pingshu performer (d. 2018)
• December 26 — Lin Dai, actress (d. 1964)
• Song Hanliang, 7th Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2000)

Dates unknown

• Hung Nam, actress and film producer

Deaths

• January 3 — Wu Chaoshu, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1887)
• January 6 — Zhang Peiyuan, nationalist general and commander of the Ili Garrison (b. 1894)
• January 24 — Li Shuwen, master practitioner of Bajiquan (b. 1862)
• February 15 — Ai Xia, left-wing silent film actress and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• March 4 — Kin Yamei, Chinese born American-raised doctor, hospital administrator, educator and nutrition expert (b. 1864)
• March 15 — Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist and former Chairman of the Geological Survey of China (b. 1884)
• May 13 — Lu Yin, feminist writer (b. 1898)
• June 30 — Lo Chueng-shiu, prominent Hong Kong businessman and the founder of the Lo family, an influential family in Hong Kong (b. 1869)
• July 14 — Liu Bannong, poet and linguist (b. 1891)
• August 29 — Yeung Hok-ling, revolutionary and one of the Four Bandits (b. 1868)
• September 14 — Wang Zhanyuan, general (b. 1861)
• September 28 — Li Jingfang, Qing dynasty statesman (b. 1855)
• October 28 — Li Shicen, philosopher and anarchist (b. 1892)
• November 13 — Shi Liangcai, journalist (b. 1880)
• November 24 — Ji Hongchang, general and patriot (b. 1895)
• December 23 — Chan Siu-bak, revolutionary and one of the Four Bandits (b. 1869)

Dates unknown

• Ma Wanfu, founder of the Yihewani (b. 1849)

References