1929 in China explained

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.^{[1] [2]}
• June 7–18: Battle of Liuzhou, Guangxi between armies of New Guangxi clique and Hunan
• June 21: Battle of Guiping in Guangxi between New Guangxi clique and the National Revolutionary Army

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.^[3] (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.^[3] (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

• June 30 – Yang Ti-liang, senior Hong Kong judge
• October 13 – Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter (d. 2010)
• December 29 – Shen Jilan, Chinese politician (d. 2020)
• Dong Cunrui

Deaths

• January 10 – Yang Yuting (warlord)
• January 19 – Liang Qichao
• February 20 – Su Zhaozheng
• August 30 – Peng Pai

Notes and References

1. China.com.cn. "China.com.cn." 杭州西湖博覽會博物館. Retrieved on May 8, 2010.
2. Web site: The West Lake International Expo Hangzhou, China . October 8, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130617101424/https://en.xh-expo.com/pages/history.html . June 17, 2013 .
3. Elleman; Bruce A.; The Soviet Union's Secret Diplomacy Concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1924–1925; Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53 (1994), S. 461