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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.[ citation needed]
- 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
References
- ^ China.com.cn. " China.com.cn." 杭州西湖博覽會博物館. Retrieved on May 8, 2010.
- ^ "The West Lake International Expo Hangzhou, China". Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
- ^ a b 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
