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1907 In China
Events from the year 1907 in China. Incumbents *Guangxu Emperor (33rd year) Viceroys * Viceroy of Zhili — Yuan Shikai then Yang Shixiang * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Ding Zhenduo then Songshou * Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Zhidong then Zhao Erxun * Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Shengyun * Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhao Fu then Cen Chunxuan then Zhang Renjun * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Cen Chunxuan then Xiliang * Viceroy of Sichuan — Xiliang then Zhao Erfeng then Chen Kuilong * Viceroy of Liangjiang — Duanfang Events * April 20 — Due to the Northeast area of the Great Qing established the administrative regions, Zhu Jiabao was appointed as Governor of Jilin Province. * China Centenary Missionary Conference * Peking to Paris automobile race Births *May 14 - Bo Gu and Gao Zhihang *July 5 - Yang Shangkun *July 14 - Xiao Ke *September 10 - Song Shilun *December 5 - Lin Biao Deaths *July 7 - Xu Xilin *July 15 - Qiu Jin Qiu Jin (; 8November 187515July 1907) was a Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangxu Emperor
The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth Emperor of China, emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1875 to 1908. His succession was endorsed by dowager empresses Empress Dowager Ci'an, Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi, Cixi for political reasons after Emperor Tongzhi died without an heir. Cixi held political power for much of Guangxu's reign as regent, except for the period between his assumption of ruling powers in 1889 and the Hundred Days' Reform in 1898. The Qing Empire's prestige and sovereignty continued to erode during Guangxu's reign with defeats in the Sino-French War, the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Boxer Rebellion. Guangxu engaged intellectuals like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to develop the Hundred Days' Reform program of 1898 to reverse the decline. Among the goals was removing Cixi from power. The program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Liang (official)
Xiliang (; 18531917) was a Chinese Scholar-official, official of Mongol heritage who served as the Viceroys in China, Viceroy of several Administration of territory in dynastic China#Qing dynasty (1636–1912), provinces during the late Qing Dynasty. Xiliang was a Qing loyalist who supported moderate reforms and strongly opposed Western imperialism in Asia#Western European and Russian intrusions into China, Western imperialism in China. He enthusiastically supported the Self-Strengthening Movement and the Late Qing reforms, New Policies, but he opposed the spread of European culture and was sympathetic to the Boxer Rebellion. His efforts at reform saw mixed results. While generally praised by his superiors, Xiliang was also hampered by opposing factions in the Imperial Court and intervention by Western powers. His provincial administrations occasionally provoked popular unrest and accusations of corruption. During the final years of the Qing, Xiliang became an advocate of constitut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Shilun
Song Shilun (; 1907–1991), né Song Jiyao (宋际尧, named from Chinese legendary King Yao), was a Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army. He graduated from Whampoa Military Academy and participated in the Chinese Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Second World War and the Korean War. Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) Song commanded the 716th regiment of the 358th brigade of the Eighth Route Army's 120th division at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In September 1937, he participated in operations north of the Yanmen Pass and was appointed commander and commissar of the North Yanmen detachment. In less than a month, he managed to recapture several villages and threatened Japanese control over the important railway juncture Datong. This action was highly praised by the Eighth Route Army high command. In May 1938, the North Yanmen detachment merged with the Deng Hua detachment to form the 4th column, with Song as commander with 5,300 men. He th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiao Ke
Xiao Ke (; July 14, 1907 – October 24, 2008) was a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, former vice chairman of the CPPCC, as well as principal of the University of Military and Politics. Biography Early life Xiao was born in Jiahe County, Hunan Province of China. He joined the National Revolutionary Army and participated the Northern Expedition in 1926. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1927 and fought in Nanchang Uprising. He went to Jinggangshan and was recruited to the Red Fourth Army. War time Between 1930 and 1933, he was appointed first to command of the Red Army's Fifth Division, then its Eighth Army, and later Sixth Army Group, fighting in many battles resisting the Nationalist's Encirclement Campaigns. In August 1934, he led the Sixth Army Group out west of the Jiangxi Soviet as pathfinders for what was to become the Long March. Among his unit was future major general Li Zhen. The Sixth Corps subsequently joined forces under He Long to bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Shangkun
Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Chinese Communist Party, Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.Yang Shangkun (Yang Shang-kun) (1907-1998) in ''China at war: an Encyclopedia'', edited by Xiaobing Li, pp. 512–514, ABC-CLIO, 2012. Born to a prosperous land-owning family, Yang studied politics at Shanghai University and Marxism, Marxist philosophy and revolutionary tactics at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. He went on to hold high office under both Mao Zedong and later Deng Xiaoping; from 1945 to 1965 he was Director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party, General Office and from 1945 to 1956 Secretary–General of the Central Military Commission (China), Central Military Commission (CMC). In these positions, Yang oversaw much of the day-to-day running of government and Party affairs, both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gao Zhihang
Gao (or Gawgaw/Kawkaw) is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region. The city is located on the River Niger, east-southeast of Timbuktu on the left bank at the junction with the Tilemsi valley. For much of its history Gao was an important commercial centre involved in the trans-Saharan trade. In the 9th century external Arabic writers described Gao as an important regional power, and by the end of the 10th century, the local ruler was said to be a Muslim. Towards the end of the 13th century, Gao became part of the Mali Empire. In the first half of the 15th century the town regained its independence. With the conquests of Sunni Ali (ruled 1464–1492) it became the capital of the Songhai Empire. The Empire collapsed after the Moroccan invasion in 1591 and the invaders chose to make Timbuktu their capital. By the time of Heinrich Barth's visit in 1854, Gao had declined to become an impoverished village with 300 huts constructed from matting. In 2009, the urban comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Gu
Qin Bangxian, better known by his alias Bo Gu ( 4 May 1907 – 8 April 1946) was a Chinese senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. Early life and education Qin was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in 1907. In his earlier years, Qin studied at the Suzhou Industrial School where he took an active role in activities against imperialism and the warlords tyrannising China. In 1925 Qin entered Shanghai University, a university that was known for its impact on young revolutionists at the time. The ideas of Marxism and Leninism were taught there by early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) like Qu Qiubai and Deng Zhongxia. Qin showed a great interest in these teachings. Later that year, Qin joined the May 30th Movement which called for protests and boycotts against imperialism. This was a precursor to his involvement in the CCP. In 1926 Qin was sent to the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, Russia where he continued to study both Marxis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peking To Paris
The Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Beijing, Peking (now Beijing), then Qing dynasty, Qing China (now the China, People's Republic of China) and Paris, France (then the Third French Republic), a distance of . The idea for the race came from a challenge published in the Paris newspaper ''Le Matin (France), Le Matin'' on 31 January 1907, reading: :"''What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Paris to Peking by automobile?''" Eventually the race started from the French embassy in Peking on 10 June 1907. The winner, Prince Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Scipione Borghese, arrived in Paris on 10 August 1907. 1907 teams There were forty entrants in the race, but only five teams ended up going ahead with shipping the cars to Peking. The race was held despite the race committee cancelling the race. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Centenary Missionary Conference
The China Centenary Missionary Conference, held in 1907 in Shanghai, China commemorated 100 years of Protestant missionary work in China and debated future courses of action. Among other actions, the conference approved a resolution endorsing the exclusion from Chinese law given Chinese Christians in the "unequal treaties" imposed on China by European countries, the United States, and Japan. The Conference The Conference celebrated the centenary of the arrival of the first Protestant missionary to China, Robert Morrison. It was convened on April 25 and adjourned on May 8, 1907. Attendees at the Conference totaled 1,170 persons, mostly missionaries from every province of China and with representatives from 25 countries. About 100 missionary organizations were operating in China, although not all were present at the conference. Most attendees were British and American. Despite the fact that the subject of the conference was the promotion of Christianity in China fewer than 10 Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Jiabao
Zhu Jiabao (; 1860 – September 5, 1923) was a Chinese monarchist politician who supported the creation of the Empire of China and the 1917 Manchu Restoration of Zhang Xun. He was born in Ningzhou Town, Huaning County, Yunnan. In 1907, he was appointed Governor of Jilin Province and the next year, he became Governor of Anhui Province, a post he held until the Xinhai Revolution The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC). The revolution was the culmination of a decade .... References *To the new summer . Northern warlords history books next . Nankai University Press . 2000. . *Xu Youchun editor of the Republican People zo dictionary revised edition . Hebei People's Publishing House . 2007. . *Liushou Lin compiled Republic of China Official chronology . Zhonghua . 1995. {{ISBN, 7-101-01320-1. 1860 births 1923 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duanfang
Duanfang (; 20 April 1861 – 27 November 1911), courtesy name Wuqiao (), was a Manchu people, Manchu politician, educator and collector who lived in the late Qing dynasty. He was a member of the Tohoro () clan and the Plain White Banner of the Eight Banners. Life Duanfang was actually Han Chinese even though he was under a Manchu banner. Some Han Chinese joined Manchu Eight Banners, banners directly, instead of joining the separate Han Chinese banners. Han Chinese in the Manchu banners became Manchucized. The Manchu White Banner were joined by some Zhejiang Han Chinese with the family name Tao (surname), Tao who defected to the Manchus towards the end of the Ming dynasty. Their last name was changed to the Manchu sounding "Tohoro". Duanfang was one of their descendants. The Manchu bannermen typically used their first/personal name to address themselves and not their last name, while Han bannermen used their last name and first in normal Chinese custom. Duanfang followed the Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viceroy Of Liangjiang
The Viceroy of Liangjiang, fully named in Chinese as the Governor-General of the Two River Provinces and Other Local Admirals, in Charge of Military Affairs, Food and Wages, Management of Rivers, and Administration on Nanhe Affairs, was one of eight regional Viceroys during the Qing dynasty. The Viceroy of Liangjiang had jurisdiction of military, civil, and political affairs over then Jiangnan Province (approx. nowadays Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai) and then Jiangxi Province (approx. nowadays Jiangxi). The position was set up in 1647 and abolished in 1912. History The office of Viceroy of Liangjiang originated in 1647 during the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor. It was called "Viceroy of the Three Provinces of Jiangdong, Jiangxi and Henan" (江東江西河南三省總督) and headquartered in Jiangning (江寧; present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu). In 1652, the office was renamed "Viceroy of Jiangxi" (江西總督) and its headquarters shifted to Nanchang for a short while before the ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
