1897 in China

Events from the year 1897 in China.

Incumbents

 * Guangxu Emperor (23rd year)

Viceroys

 * Viceroy of Zhili — Wang Wenshao
 * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Bian Baoquan
 * Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Zhidong
 * Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Tao Mo
 * Viceroy of Liangguang — Tan Zhonglin
 * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Songfan
 * Viceroy of Sichuan — Lu Chuanlin then Gongshou then Li Bingheng then Yulu
 * Viceroy of Liangjiang — Liu Kunyi

Events

 * Red Revenue incident, Chinese revenue stamps were overprinted (surcharged) and subsequently used as postage stamps in 1897

Births

 * 1 June - Yang Zhongjian, paleontologist and zoologist
 * 24 August - Cheng Fangwu, politician
 * 19 September - Zhu Guangqian, Chinese esthetician, modern literary theorist and scholar (d.1986)
 * 25 October - Wu Yun An, surgeon and soldier
 * He Zhuguo, general
 * Liu Zongxiang, educator

Deaths

 * Li Hongzao
 * Yang Changjun