1928 in China

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Events in the year 1928 in China.

Incumbents

7 February – Tan Yankai became the first Chairman of the Nationalist Government.

26 March – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).

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]

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

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.

March 7 — Lee Shau-kee, Hong Kong business magnate, investor and philanthropist
March 11 — Zhao Lirong, singer and film actress (d. 2000)
March 19 — Sutano Djuhar, Indonesian Chinese businessman, investor and philanthropist (d. 2018)

July 26 — Zong Pu, novelist
July 28 — Ng Teng Fong, Singaporean real estate tycoon (d. 2010)
July 29 — Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor and philanthropist
Zhao Baotong, MiG-15 pilot (d. 2003)

October 20 — Li Peng, 4th Premier of China (d. 2019)
October 21 — Yu Kwang-chung, Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic (d. 2017)
October 23 — Zhu Rongji, 5th Premier of China

^ Li Jiazhen (1987) Jinan Tragedy p 238,
^ Iriye, After Imperialism, 199–201.
^ Ji'nan Government (1 September 2005). "The Year of 1928". Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 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
^ An Xiang: "Second Northern Expedition 1928: Part II" Archived 11 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^ Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), 82–83.
^ Beasley, Japanese Imperialism. p. 187.
^ Republic of China historical annal: 1928 Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine under 1 July, section A.

Beasley, W.G. (1991). Japanese Imperialism 1894–1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822168-1.
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.