1897 in China
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Events from the year 1897 in China.
Incumbents
[edit]- Guangxu Emperor (23rd year)
Viceroys
[edit]- Viceroy of Zhili — Wang Wenshao
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Bian Baoquan
- Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Zhidong
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Tao Mo
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Tan Zhonglin
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Songfan
- Viceroy of Sichuan — Lu Chuanlin then Gongshou then Li Bingheng then Yulu
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Liu Kunyi
Events
[edit]- Red Revenue incident, Chinese revenue stamps were overprinted (surcharged) and subsequently used as postage stamps in 1897[1]
Births
[edit]- 1 June - Yang Zhongjian, paleontologist and zoologist[2]
- 24 August - Cheng Fangwu, politician
- 19 September - Zhu Guangqian, Chinese esthetician, modern literary theorist and scholar (d.1986)
- 25 October - Wu Yun An, surgeon and soldier
- He Zhuguo, general
- Liu Zongxiang, educator
Deaths
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1897 Red Revenue Small One Dollar" stamp sells for $970,000 at auction". News.com.au. 3 July 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "Yang Zhongjian (1897–1979)". Peking Man Site Museum.
Chinese geologist and vertebrate palaeontologist. In 1928, he worked as a technician at the Geological Survey of China, and took charge of the excavation at Zhoukoudian. After the establishment of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory, he had been working as its director of Vertebrate Palaeontological Laboratory, the director of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology of Chinese Academy of Sciences respectively.
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