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Events from the year 1897 in China.

## Incumbents

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* Guangxu Emperor (23rd year)

### Viceroys

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* 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

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* Red Revenue incident, Chinese revenue stamps were overprinted (surcharged) and subsequently used as postage stamps in 1897[1]

## Births

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* January 15 — Xu Zhimo, romantic poet and writer of modern Chinese poetry (d. 1931)
* February 16 — Wei Lihuang, general (d. 1960)
* April 28 — Ye Jianying, 3rd Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (d. 1986)
* May 28 — Dai Li, lieutenant general and spymaster (d. 1946)
* June 1 — Yang Zhongjian, paleontologist and zoologist (d. 1979)[2]
* June 7 — Tan Lark Sye, founder of the Nanyang University (d. 1972)
* July 23 — Tang Feifan, medical microbiologist (d. 1958)
* August 24 — Cheng Fangwu, politician (d. 1984)
* September 19 — Zhu Guangqian, esthetician, modern literary theorist and scholar (d. 1986)
* October 25 — Wu Yun An, surgeon and soldier (d. 1993)
* November 26 — Zhang Guotao, founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1979)
* December 21 — Luo Jialun, historian, diplomat and political activist (d. 1969)

### Dates unknown

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* He Zhuguo, general (d. 1985)

## Deaths

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* July 31 — Li Hongzao, government official (b. 1820)
* Yang Changjun, 88th & 91st Viceroy of Shaan-Gan (b. 1825)
* Zhang Zhiwan, statesman and painter (b. 1811)

## References

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1. ^ "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.
2. ^ "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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