1888 in China

Events in the year 1888 in China.

Incumbents

 * Guangxu Emperor (14th year)
 * Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi

Viceroys

 * Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang
 * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Yang Changjun then Bian Baodi
 * Viceroy of Huguang — Yulu
 * Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Tan Zhonglin then Yang Changjun
 * Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhang Zhidong
 * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Cen Yuying
 * Viceroy of Sichuan — Liu Bingzhang
 * Viceroy of Liangjiang — Zeng Guoquan

Events

 * Sikkim expedition, an 1888 British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim in present-day northeast India.
 * March 12 — Qing government signed a treaty with the US banning Chinese laborers from entering the US in accordance with the Chinese Exclusion Act
 * Lingnan University established in Canton, Kwangtung Province, China (now Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China). It was a private university established by a group of American missionaries in 1888
 * October 1 — The Scott Act (1888) signed into law, was a United States law that prohibited Chinese laborers abroad or who planned future travels from returning, met with opposition in China, especially Guangdong

Births

 * Zhan Dabei (1888, Hubei - 1927) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was an anti-Manchu rebel active at the time of the 1911 Revolution