1937 in China
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Events in the year 1937 in China.
Incumbents
- President: Lin Sen
- Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
- Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi
- Foreign Minister: Zhang Qun until March 4, then Wang Chonghui
Events
January
- January 14 â Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai.
- January 19 â Hunan University was changed to National Hunan University, and the Ministry of Education appointed Pi Zongshi as the principal.[1]
- January 28 â Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, arrived in Shanghai and departed the next day.
July to December
- July 7â9 â Marco Polo Bridge Incident
- early July-early August â Battle of BeipingâTianjin
- August â Operation Chahar
- AugustâDecember â BeipingâHankou Railway Operation
- AugustâNovember â TianjinâPukou Railway Operation
- 13 August â 26 November â Battle of Shanghai
- September 1 â November 9 âBattle of Taiyuan
- September 13 â November 11 â Battle of Xinkou
- September 24 â September 25 â Battle of Pingxingguan
- October 26 â November 1 â Defense of Sihang Warehouse
- December 13 â Nanking Massacre
Births
- February 5 â Wang Xuan, computer scientist (d. 2006)
- March 28 â Ye Keming, engineer (d. 2021)
- May 17 â Han Dingxiang, underground Roman Catholic bishop of Yongnian (d. 2007)
- June 22 â Chen Li-an, Taiwanese mathematician and former politician
- July 2 â Gu Shengying, classical concert pianist (d. 1967)
- July 7 â Tung Chee-hwa, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong
- July 11 â Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
- July 13 â Xu Huanshan, actor and film director
- July 24 â Betty Loh Ti, Hong Kong actress (d. 1968)
- July 28 â Wang Zhonggao, vascular surgeon (d. 2023)
- August 1 â Tseten Dolma, ethnic Tibetan soprano
- September 29 â Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (d. 2007)
- October 25 â Guo Guirong, lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army
- October 26 â Qian Qihu, military engineer
- November 1 â Zhou Chaochen, computer scientist
- December 11 â Xu Kuangdi, 11th Mayor of Shanghai
- December 26 â Gu Yue, actor (d. 2005)
Dates unknown
Deaths
- January 8 â Pamela Werner, child of retired British diplomat E. T. C. Werner (b. 1917)
- July 28
- Zhao Dengyu, general (b. 1898)
- Tong Linge, military officer (b. 1892)
- October 15 â Hao Mengling, general (b. 1892)
- November 21 â Gao Zhihang, WWII flying ace (b. 1907)
- December 1 â Rao Guohua, general from the Sichuan clique (b. 1894)
- December 3 â Yue Yiqin, WWII flying ace (b. 1914)
- December 25 â Xiong Xiling, 4th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1870)
Dates unknown
- Ma Zhongying, Chinese Muslim warlord (b. 1910)