A calendar of Chinese history
17 events
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Chiang Kai-shek resigns as President of the Republic of China
Politics
Chiang Kai-shek resigns as President of the Republic of China in 1949, as his mainland-based government faces defeat by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War. He goes on to lead the Republic of China from Taiwan until his death in 1975.
Source : Tchang Kaï-chek · On chine.in
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Birth of tennis player Zhang Shuai
Birth
Tennis player Zhang Shuai is born in Tianjin in 1989. A professional since 2004, she wins three WTA singles titles and nineteen women's doubles titles, including the 2021 US Open and the 2019 and 2026 Australian Opens.
Source : Zhang Shuai
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First confirmed COVID-19 case in Taiwan
Disaster
Taiwan confirms its first COVID-19 case on 21 January 2020. Health authorities activate the Central Epidemic Command Center, drawing on the experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak, and roll out around a hundred measures over the following month, from border screening and case identification to digital contact tracing and quarantine.
Source : Pandémie de Covid-19 à Taïwan
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Death of Yang Pu, last ruler of Yang Wu
Death
Yang Pu, the last ruler of the Yang Wu state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and the only one to claim the title of emperor, dies in 939. Real power lay with the regents Xu Wen and then Xu Zhigao (Li Bian), who forced him to yield the throne in 938 and founded the Southern Tang.
Source : Yang Pu
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Birth of Liu Kunyi
Birth
Liu Kunyi, an official of the Qing dynasty, is born in 1830. He dies in 1902.
Source : Liu Kunyi
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Birth of Emily Lau
Birth
Emily Lau, a Hong Kong journalist turned politician, is born in 1952. A champion of press freedom and human rights, she becomes in 1991 the first woman directly elected to Hong Kong's Legislative Council, and later chairs the Democratic Party.
Source : Emily Lau
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Birth of biophysicist Xiaowei Zhuang
Birth
Biophysicist Xiaowei Zhuang is born in 1972. A professor at Harvard University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, she is known for developing the STORM super-resolution microscope and for discovering new molecular structures.
Source : Xiaowei Zhuang
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Birth of diver Sun Shuwei
Birth
Diver Sun Shuwei, an Olympic champion, is born in Jieyang in 1976.
Source : Sun Shuwei
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Birth of Gillian Chung
Birth
Hong Kong actress and singer Gillian Chung is born in 1981. With Charlene Choi she forms the Cantopop duo Twins.
Source : Gillian Chung
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Birth of fencer Wu Hanxiong
Birth
Foil fencer Wu Hanxiong is born in Shantou in 1981. He wins a team silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Source : Wu Hanxiong
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Death of novelist Zhang Jie
Death
Novelist Zhang Jie, born in Beijing in 1937, dies in New York in 2022. A leading figure of "scar literature" and regarded as China's foremost feminist novelist, she received the Malaparte Prize in 1989.
Source : Zhang Jie (écrivain)
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Death of general Liu Zhijun
Death
Liu Zhijun, a general under Zhu Wen in the late Tang period and then in the Later Liang, dies in 918. Fearing his master would turn against him, he had defected, first to Qi and then to Former Shu, whose emperor Wang Jian, wary of his talent, has him executed.
Source : Liu Zhijun (Later Liang)
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Death of general An Chongrong
Death
An Chongrong, a leading general of the Later Jin, dies in 942. Opposed to Emperor Shi Jingtang's friendly relations with the Khitan Liao state, he had rebelled, was quickly defeated, and was killed by his own subordinates.
Source : An Chongrong
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Death of Yang Guangyuan
Death
Yang Guangyuan, a general of the Later Tang and Later Jin and Prince of Qi, dies in 945. He had rebelled against the Later Jin in 944 counting on Khitan Liao support; after the Liao relief forces were repelled, his son Yang Chengxun arrested him and surrendered, and he was killed by soldiers sent by general Li Shouzhen.
Source : Yang Guangyuan
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Birth of film director Wang Chao
Birth
Film director Wang Chao is born in Nanjing in 1964.
Source : Wang Chao · On chine.in
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Birth of Sun Shengnan
Birth
Chinese tennis player Sun Shengnan is born in 1987. She competes as a professional from 2002 to 2013.
Source : Sun Shengnan
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Death of writer Chin Shunshin
Death
Chin Shunshin, a Taiwanese-Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic born in Kobe in 1924, dies in 2015. He is best known for his historical fiction and detective novels, including a novel on the First Opium War and a history of China.
Source : Chin Shunshin