1915 in China

← 1914 1913 1912 1911 1910 1915 in China → 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1915 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1915 in China.

Incumbents

• President: Yuan Shikai
• Vice President: Feng Guozhang
• Premier: Xu Shichang (until December 22), Lu Zhengxiang (starting December 22)

Events

• January 8 — Imperial Japanese government issues the Twenty-One Demands to the Chinese
• May 15–21 – The Far Eastern Championship Games take place in Shanghai.^[1]
• May 25
  • Treaty of Kyakhta (1915)
  • the Yuan government accepts four out of the five set of demands issued in the Twenty-One Demands
• December 12 — Empire of China (1915–1916)
• December 25 — beginning of the National Protection War

Births

• Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian (January 28, 1915 – November 2, 2009) is the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan[1] (Chinese: 姚念媛; pinyin: Yáo Niànyuán). She was a Chinese author who recounted her harrowing experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.
• Peter Zhang Bairen (February 14, 1915 – October 12, 2005) was the unofficial Bishop of Hanyang, China
• Yang Huimin (simplified Chinese: 杨惠敏; traditional Chinese: 楊惠敏; pinyin: Yáng Huìmǐn; March 6, 1915 - March 9, 1992) was a Girl Guide during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai who supplied a Republic of China flag and brought supplies to besieged defenders of the Sihang Warehouse
• Wang Daohan (Chinese: 汪道涵; pinyin: Wāng Dàohán), (27 March 1915 – 24 December 2005) was the former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS)
• Sylvia Wu (24 October 1915 – 29 September 2022) was a Chinese-born American restaurateur
• Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China
• Wu Teh Yao (1915–17 April 1994) was an educator and a specialist in Confucianism and political science

Other countries

• Israel Epstein (20 April 1915 – 26 May 2005) was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author. He was one of the few foreign-born Chinese citizens of non-Chinese origin to become a member of the Chinese Communist Party
• Sidney Shapiro (Chinese: 沙博理; pinyin: Shā Bólǐ) (December 23, 1915 – October 18, 2014) was an American-born Chinese translator, actor and author who lived in China from 1947 to 2014. He was one of very few naturalized citizens of the PRC

References

1. Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of international games. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 473. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.

• Chaurasia, R.S. History of Modern China. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2004.