1915 in China

Events in the year 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

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