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1942 In China
Events in the year 1942 in China. Incumbents *President: Lin Sen *Premier: Chiang Kai-shek *Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi Events * Beginning of the Chinese famine of 1942-43 *April 26 - a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners. *mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign * A cholera epidemic in Yunnan province kills around 200 peopleSARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic?, By Arthur Kleinman, James L. Watson, p. 10 Births * December 21 - Hu Jintao * Chen Jialin * Huang Baosheng * Wang Zhizhen * He Xiangjian * Chen Guidi * Huang Zhiquan Deaths *Zhao Shangzhi *May 27 - Chen Duxiu See also * List of Chinese films of the 1940s This is a list of films produced in the Republican period and initial Communist period of China ordered by year of release in the 1940s. For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see :Chinese films. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1 ... References Years of the 20th century in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Jialin
Chen Jialin (; 1942 – 7 July 2022) was a Chinese director. Filmography * '' Tang Ming Huang'' (1990) * '''' (1995) * '' The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom'' (2000) * '''' (2001) — co-director * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Chinese Films Of The 1940s
This is a list of films produced in the Republican period and initial Communist period of China ordered by year of release in the 1940s. For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see :Chinese films. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Mainland Chinese Film Production Totals See also *Cinema of China * Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures as chosen by the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards Sources *中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1931-1949.9, 故事片·戏曲片. (2005). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1931-1949.9. Beijing: 中国电影出版社 China Movie Publishing House. *中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1949.10-1976, 故事片·戏曲片. (2001). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1949.10-1976. Beijing: 中国电影出版社 China Movie Publishing House. References External linksIMDb list of Chinese films {{DEFAULTSORT:Chinese Films Of The 1940s 1940s Films Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu ( zh, t=陳獨秀, w=Ch'en Tu-hsiu; 8 October 187927 May 1942) was a Chinese revolutionary socialist, educator, philosopher and author, who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with Li Dazhao in 1921. From 1921 to 1927, he served as the Communist Party's first General Secretary. Chen was a leading figure in both the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and the May Fourth Movement for scientific and democratic developments in the early Republic of China. After his expulsion from the CCP in 1929, Chen was for a time the leader of China's Trotskyist movement. Chen's ancestral home was in Anqing, Anhui, where he established the influential vernacular Chinese periodical ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)''. In order to support overthrowing the Qing government, Chen Duxiu had joined Yue Fei Loyalist Society ( zh, t=岳王會, p=Yuèwáng huì, labels=no) which emerged from Elder Brothers’ secret society ( zh, t=哥老會, p=Gēlǎo huì, labels=no) in Anhui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhao Shangzhi
Zhao Shangzhi (; 1908–1942) was a Chinese military commander. Born in Chaoyang, Liaoning, he participated in the May Thirtieth Movement in 1925, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. In November 1925, he went to study in the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou. After September 18, 1932 he took the charge of the CPC Northeast military division. In October 1933, he was in charge of Zhuhe anti-Japan guerrillas, and was promoted to commander of the Northeast Anti-Japan United Army in 1934. On February 12, 1942, he was captured by Japanese military police after being attacked by an agent provocateur, and died later at the age of 34. The city of Zhuhe, where he fought against the Japanese, was renamed to Shangzhi Shangzhi () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. It is away from central Harbin and has an area of approximately . The city proper has a population of around . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Zhiquan (politician, Born 1942)
Huang Zhiquan (; born February 1942) is a Chinese politician. He served as Governor of Jiangxi Province and was a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Biography Huang was born in 1942 in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, China. He graduated from Zhejiang Agricultural University (now part of Zhejiang University). Huang's political career has been mainly in Jiangxi Provincial Government. Career * 1984–1991, Deputy Director of the Jiangxi Provincial Planning Committee; * 1984–1993, Director Director may refer to: Literature * ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine * ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker * ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty Music * Director (band), an Irish rock band * ''D ... of the Jiangxi Provincial Planning Committee; * 1991–1993, Assistant for the Governor of Jiangxi Province; * 1993–1995 & 1998–2001, Vice-Governor of Jiangxi Province (alongside Hu Changqing and Wang Jun); * 1995–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Guidi
Chen Guidi (陳桂棣; born November 1942) is a Chinese writer from Huaiyuan county, Anhui. The book ''A Survey of the Chinese Peasants'' (中国农民调查 / 中國農民調查 Zhōngguó Nóngmín Diàochá) which he co-wrote with his wife Wu Chuntao (born 1963) was published in January 2004 but banned by the Communist Party in March of that year. It nevertheless won the 2004 Lettre Ulysses Award. It has been retitled and reprinted in English as Will the Boat Sink the Water ''Will the Boat Sink the Water?:The Life of China's Peasants,'' is a 2006 non-fiction book authored by husband and wife team Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. It is the English translation of ''Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha'' (中国农民调查, "An Inves .... ReferencesAsia Times Jan 22, 2005 1942 births Chinese non-fiction writers Living people People's Republic of China writers People from Bengbu Writers from Anhui 21st-century Chinese writers {{China-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Xiangjian
He Xiangjian (, born October 5, 1942) is the co-founder of Midea, one of China's largest appliance makers. In September 2021, his net worth was estimated to be $28.8 billion by ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', positioning him at the 51st place in the index. Life In 1968 Beijiao, Guangdong, He formed the lid production company that would be come Midea. He stepped down from operations of Midea in 2012. He is married with three children and lives in Foshan Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the ... in Junlan International Golf Life Village, a villa neighbourhood developed by Midea Real Estate Group. He is a noted art collector and founded the He Art Museum, a privately funded non-profit museum designed by Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando. It is reported that there wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Zhizhen
Wang Zhizhen (; born July 6, 1942 in Suzhou Jiangsu), also known as Chih-Chen Wang, is a Chinese biophysicist and professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She also served as Vice Chairperson of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of the Jiusan Society and Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairperson of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Life Wang Zhizhen graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 1964, then started to work at Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduation as an intern researcher. She became a researcher in 1993. She was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 2001. References 1942 births Living people Biologists from Jiangsu Chinese biophysicists Chinese women biologists Chinese women physicists Educators from Suzhou Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Baosheng
Huang Baosheng (; July 1942 – 23 March 2023) was a Chinese scholar of Sanskrit and Pali. He is known for having translated into Chinese many Sanskrit and Pali texts, including the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Lalitavistara Sutra and the Vajracchedikā (Diamond Sutra). Huang was born in Shanghai in July 1942, and graduated from the department of oriental languages at Peking University in 1965, majoring in foreign languages (Sanskrit and Pali). He retired from Peking University and was a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature in the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He was also the president of the China Foreign Literature Society and of the Indian Literature Research Institute, and a member of the Chinese Communist Party. A project to translate the Mahabharata into Chinese was started in 1989, by Jin Kemu (1912-2000) and Zhao Guohwa (1943-1991), who with Xi Bizhuang published the translation of the first ''parva' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's ''de facto'' top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012. Hu was the paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012. Hu rose to power through the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), notably as Party Committee secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, where his harsh repression of dissent gained him attention from the highest levels. He moved up to first secretary of the CCP Central Secretariat and vice president under CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin. Hu was the first leader of the Communist Party from a generation younger than those who participated in the civil war and the founding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Sen
Lin Sen (; 16 March 1868 – 1 August 1943), courtesy name Tze-chao (子超), sobriquet Chang-jen (長仁), was a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1931 until his death. Early life Born to a middle-class family in Shanggan Township (尚幹鄉), Minhou County (閩侯縣), Fuzhou, Lin was educated by American missionaries. He later worked in the Telegram Bureau of Taipei, Taiwan in 1884. After the First Sino-Japanese War, he engaged in guerrilla activities against the Japanese occupiers. He returned to the mainland and worked in the Shanghai customs office in 1902. He later lived in Hawaii and San Francisco. There he was recruited by the Tongmenghui in 1905, and was an overseas organizer for the Kuomintang. During the Xinhai Revolution, he was in charge of the Jiangxi revolt. He became speaker of the senate in the National Assembly. After the failed Second Revolution against President Yuan Shikai, Lin fled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
