1915 in China

Events in the year 1915 in China.

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.
 * 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] . 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 (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, (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 (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