Events in the year 1942 in China.

Incumbents

*President:

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 l ...

*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 A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed powdered combustible material is present in high-enough concentrations in the atmosphere o ...

in the

Benxihu Colliery Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery (), located in Benxi, Liaoning, China, was first mined in 1905. Originally an iron and coal mining project under joint Japanese and Chinese control, the mine came under predominantly Japanese control. In the early 1930s, ...

killed 1,549 miners. *mid May-early September -

Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign or the Chekiang–Kiangsi campaign ( Japanese: 浙贛作戦, ), also known as Operation Sei-go ( Japanese: せ号作戦), was a campaign by the China Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army under Shunroku ...

* A cholera epidemic in

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

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 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 Lalitavist ...

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 ...

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 plac ...

* Chen Guidi *

Huang Zhiquan Huang Zhiquan may refer to: * Huang Zhiquan (politician, born 1908) (黃穉荃), Chinese politician and member of the Legislative Yuan *Huang Zhiquan (politician, born 1942) (黄智权), Chinese politician and Governor of Jiangxi See also *Huang Z ...

Deaths

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 th ...

*May 27 -

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, h ...

References

Years of the 20th century in China {{Asia-year-stub