1937 in China

Events in the year 1937 in China.

Incumbents

• President: Lin Sen
• Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi
• Foreign Minister: Zhang Qun until March 4, then Wang Chonghui

Events

January

• January 14 — Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai.
• January 19 — Hunan University was changed to National Hunan University, and the Ministry of Education appointed Pi Zongshi as the principal.
• January 28 — Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, arrived in Shanghai and departed the next day.

July to December

• July 7–9 — Marco Polo Bridge Incident
• early July-early August – Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
• August — Operation Chahar
• August–December — Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation
• August–November — Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation
• 13 August – 26 November — Battle of Shanghai
• September 1 – November 9 —Battle of Taiyuan
• September 13 – November 11 — Battle of Xinkou
• September 24 – September 25 — Battle of Pingxingguan
• October 26 – November 1 — Defense of Sihang Warehouse
• December 13 — Nanking Massacre

Births

• February 5 — Wang Xuan, computer scientist (d. 2006)
• March 28 — Ye Keming, engineer (d. 2021)
• May 17 — Han Dingxiang, underground Roman Catholic bishop of Yongnian (d. 2007)
• June 22 — Chen Li-an, Taiwanese mathematician and former politician
• July 2 — Gu Shengying, classical concert pianist (d. 1967)
• July 7 — Tung Chee-hwa, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• July 11 — Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
• July 13 — Xu Huanshan, actor and film director
• July 24 — Betty Loh Ti, Hong Kong actress (d. 1968)
• July 28 — Wang Zhonggao, vascular surgeon (d. 2023)
• August 1 — Tseten Dolma, ethnic Tibetan soprano
• September 29 — Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (d. 2007)
• October 25 — Guo Guirong, lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army
• October 26 — Qian Qihu, military engineer
• November 1 — Zhou Chaochen, computer scientist
• December 11 — Xu Kuangdi, 11th Mayor of Shanghai
• December 26 — Gu Yue, actor (d. 2005)

Dates unknown

• Liu Caipin
• Yu Xiaosong

Deaths

• January 8 — Pamela Werner, child of retired British diplomat E. T. C. Werner (b. 1917)
• July 28
• Zhao Dengyu, general (b. 1898)
• Tong Linge, military officer (b. 1892)
• October 15 — Hao Mengling, general (b. 1892)
• November 21 — Gao Zhihang, WWII flying ace (b. 1907)
• December 1 — Rao Guohua, general from the Sichuan clique (b. 1894)
• December 3 — Yue Yiqin, WWII flying ace (b. 1914)
• December 25 — Xiong Xiling, 4th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1870)

Dates unknown

• Ma Zhongying, Chinese Muslim warlord (b. 1910)

See also

• List of Chinese films of the 1930s

References