1929 in China

Events from the year 1929 in China.

Incumbents

 * Chairman of the Nationalist government: Chiang Kai-shek
 * Premier: Tan Yankai
 * Vice Premier: Feng Yuxiang

March

 * March 5 – Yi Peiji was appointed as the president of the National Palace Museum and the curator of the antiquities museum by Nationalist Government.

April

 * April 1 – Zhifu is captured by rebel forces in course of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong, and subsequently largely destroyed.
 * April 11 – Battle of Yichang in western Hubei between the armies of the Sichuan clique and New Guangxi clique
 * Mid-April – Zhang Zongchang's warlord rebel army in northeastern Shandong collapses as result of indiscipline and a government counter-offensive.

May

 * May 15: First Battle of Guilin: Hunan Army attacks Guilin, Guangxi
 * May 17–21: Second Battle of Guangzhou between New Guangxi clique and Guangdong Army

June

 * June 6 – 1929 Westlake exposition was opened.
 * June 7–18: Battle of Liuzhou, Guangxi between armies of New Guangxi clique and Hunan
 * June 21: Battle of Guiping in Guangxi between New Guangxi clique and the National Revolutionary Army

July

 * July 25 – the Soviet government's Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Lev Karakhan, had issued a manifesto to the Chinese government promising the return of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Chinese control with no financial cost. (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))

August

 * August 26 – the Karakhan Manifesto was published by the Soviet press, but the document failed to mention neither the return of CER to the Chinese nor the lack of financial compensation. (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))

September

 * September 23 – Liu Zhennian launches a campaign to crush the Red Spears' uprising in Shandong (1928–1929).

October

 * October 10 – the closing of the 1929 Westlake exposition.
 * October 18–24: battle at Zhengzhou, Henan between Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and National Revolutionary Army

November

 * November – The Red Spear Society ceases to exist on the northern Shandong Peninsula as result of Liu Zhennian's counter-insurgency campaign.
 * November 20 – Taiping Fire and Marine Insurance, as predecessor of China Taiping Insurance was founded in Shanghai.
 * November 30 – end of battle of Heishiguan

December

 * December – Gutian Congress

Births

 * June 30 – Yang Ti-liang, senior Hong Kong judge
 * October 13 – Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter (d. 2010)
 * December 29 – Shen Jilan, Chinese politician (d. 2020)
 * Dong Cunrui

Deaths

 * January 10 – Yang Yuting (warlord)
 * January 19 – Liang Qichao
 * February 20 – Su Zhaozheng
 * August 30 – Peng Pai