1929_in_China Knowpia

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Events from the year 1929 in China.

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March 5 – Yi Peiji was appointed as the president of the National Palace Museum and the curator of the antiquities museum by Nationalist Government.

April 1 – Zhifu is captured by rebel forces in course of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong, and subsequently largely destroyed.
April 11 – Battle of Yichang in western Hubei between the armies of the Sichuan clique and New Guangxi clique
Mid-April – Zhang Zongchang's warlord rebel army in northeastern Shandong collapses as result of indiscipline and a government counter-offensive.

May 15: First Battle of Guilin: Hunan Army attacks Guilin, Guangxi
May 17–21: Second Battle of Guangzhou between New Guangxi clique and Guangdong Army

June 6 – 1929 Westlake exposition was opened.^[1]^[2]
June 7–18: Battle of Liuzhou, Guangxi between armies of New Guangxi clique and Hunan
June 21: Battle of Guiping in Guangxi between New Guangxi clique and the National Revolutionary Army

July 25 – the Soviet government's Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Lev Karakhan, had issued a manifesto to the Chinese government promising the return of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Chinese control with no financial cost.^[3] (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))

August 26 – the Karakhan Manifesto was published by the Soviet press, but the document failed to mention neither the return of CER to the Chinese nor the lack of financial compensation.^[3] (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))

October 10 – the closing of the 1929 Westlake exposition.
October 18–24: battle at Zhengzhou, Henan between Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and National Revolutionary Army

November – The Red Spear Society ceases to exist on the northern Shandong Peninsula as result of Liu Zhennian's counter-insurgency campaign.
November 20 – Taiping Fire and Marine Insurance, as predecessor of China Taiping Insurance was founded in Shanghai.^{[citation needed]}
November 30 – end of battle of Heishiguan

^ China.com.cn. "China.com.cn." 杭州西湖博覽會博物館. Retrieved on May 8, 2010.
^ "The West Lake International Expo Hangzhou, China". Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Elleman; Bruce A.; The Soviet Union's Secret Diplomacy Concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1924–1925; Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53 (1994), S. 461