1877 in China

Events from the year 1877 in China.

Incumbents

 * Guangxu Emperor (3rd year)
 * Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi

Viceroys

 * Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang
 * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — He Jing
 * Viceroy of Huguang — Li Hanzhang
 * Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Zuo Zongtang
 * Viceroy of Liangguang — Liu Kunyi
 * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Liu Changyou
 * Viceroy of Sichuan — Ding Baozhen
 * Viceroy of Liangjiang — Shen Baozhen

Events

 * Dungan Revolt (1862–77)
 * Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79
 * Shandong Famine Relief Committee was established with the participation of diplomats, businessmen, and Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries to combat the famine
 * Woosung Road railway purchased and dismantled by Viceroy of Liangjiang Shen Baozhen

Deaths

 * Gu Taiqing (Chinese: 顾太清; Pinyin: Gù Tàiqīng; 1799 – c. 1877) writer and poet, one of the top-ranked women poets of the Qing Dynasty.
 * Yaqub Beg, killed in the Qing reconquest of Xinjiang