1928 in China explained

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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

June

• 4 June – Huanggutun Incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin).^[6]

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.^[7]

Births

• 1 August – Shen Daren, Chinese politician (d. 2017)
• 18 August – John Liu Shi-gong, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
• 20 October – Li Peng
• Sun Shenlu
• Zhao Baotong

Deaths

• 30 March – Xia Minghan
• 3 May – Cai Gongshi
• 3 June – Li Yuanhong
• 4 June – Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng
• 14 October – Chen Jue

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.

External links

Notes and References

1. Li Jiazhen (1987) Jinan Tragedy p 238,
2. Iriye, After Imperialism, 199–201.
3. Web site: Ji'nan Government . The Year of 1928 . 1 September 2005 . 16 August 2013 . "蔡公时用日语抗议，日兵竟将其耳鼻割去，继又挖去舌头、眼睛。日军将被缚人员的衣服剥光，恣意鞭打，然后拉至院内用机枪扫射" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120724101408/https://www.jinan.gov.cn/art/2005/9/1/art_40_8702.html . 24 July 2012 .
4. http://orbat.com/site/history/volume5/534/1928%20Northern%20Campaign%20Part%20II.pdf An Xiang: "Second Northern Expedition 1928: Part II"
5. Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), 82–83.
6. Beasley, Japanese Imperialism. p. 187.
7. http://ef.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ccw/02/1928.htm Republic of China historical annal: 1928