1940 in China

none November 2024 1940 Events in the year 1940 in China. Incumbents President: Lin Sen Premier: Chiang Kai-shek Vice Premier: H.H. Kung Foreign Minister: Wang Ch'ung-hui Events March 16 – April 3 — Battle of Wuyuan May 1 – June 18 — Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang November 25–30 — Central Hubei Operation Births January January 4 — Gao Xingjian, Chinese-French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director and translator January 14 — Li Guanxing, nuclear material engineer (d. 2020) January 16 — Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai, 11th Qamdo Pagbalha Hutuktu of Tibetan Buddhism and politician January 17 Hua Jianmin, former State Councilor of China Anson Chan, Hong Kong politician and civil servant February February 29 — Lydia Dunn, Hong Kong-born British businesswoman and politician March March 8 — Jia Qinglin, 7th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Zhang Fusen, politician April April 24 — Allen Lee, industrialist, politician and political commentator (d. 2020) Jiang Shusheng, physicist and politician June Liao Xilong, general of the People's Liberation Army August August 14 — Zhang Lina, physical chemist (d. 2020) August 22 — Shi Guangnan, composer (d. 1990) Chen Mingyi, 5th Governor of Fujian Guo Baochang, director, screenwriter, writer and playwright (d. 2023) October October 3 — Liu Yongqing, former Spouse of the Paramount Leader of China October 8 — Liu Yingming, mathematician (d. 2016) October 20 — Li Zhaoxing, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of China November November 27 — Bruce Lee, Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (d. 1973) December December 9 — Liang Guanglie, 10th Minister of National Defense of China (d. 2024) December 17 — Lü Zhong, actress December 18 — Lei Feng, soldier of the People's Liberation Army (d. 1962) December 22 — Bai Yilong, mechanist (d. 2024) Huang Hengmei, lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army Date unknown Yu Lina, violinist pedagogue Patsy Toh, British pianist Deaths February 23 — Yang Jingyu, Communist military commander and political commissar (b. 1905) March 4 — Gao Lingwei, politician (b. 1870) March 5 — Cai Yuanpei, philosopher and politician (b. 1868) April 5 — Song Zheyuan, general (b. 1885) May 14 — Luo Zhenyu, classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher, antiquarian and Qing loyalist (b. 1866) May 16 — Zhang Zizhong, general (b. 1891)Chen Minjie The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature: Friends and Foes on the Battlefield 22 January 2016 Routledge 978-1-317-50880-9 123 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Sino_Japanese_War_and_Youth_Literatu/DYJwCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT123&printsec=frontcover enWaldron Arthur China's New Remembering of World War II: The Case of Zhang Zizhong https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/chinas-new-remembering-of-world-war-ii-the-case-of-zhang-zizhong1/E52B26842CE3B452F38970B69140F70F Modern Asian Studies 12 November 2024 945–978 en 10.1017/S0026749X00016851 October 1996 August 1 — Ma Junwu, scientist and educator (b. 1881) September 26 — Xu Qian, politician and jurist (b. 1871) December 1 — Shi Yousan, 9th Governor of Chahar (b. 1891) December 31 — Xiao Youmei, music educator and composer (b. 1884) See also List of Chinese films of the 1940s References 1940 in Category:1940s in China Category:Years of the 20th century in China