1888 in China
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Events in the year1888 inChina.
Incumbents
[edit]- Guangxu Emperor(14th year)[1]
- Regent:Empress Dowager Cixi
Viceroys
[edit]- Viceroy of Zhili—Li Hongzhang
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe—Yang ChangjunthenBian Baodi
- Viceroy of Huguang—Yulu
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan—Tan ZhonglinthenYang Changjun
- Viceroy of Liangguang—Zhang Zhidong
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui—Cen Yuying
- Viceroy of Sichuan—Liu Bingzhang
- Viceroy of Liang gian g—Zeng Guoquan
Events
[edit]- 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 theChinese Exclusion Act[2]
- Lingnan Universityestablished 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 — TheScott 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, especiallyGuangdong
Births
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ^"Some Notes on a Document Concerning the Tibeto-British Conflict of 1888".1992.
- ^"Chinese laborers excluded from U.S. - Mar 12, 1888 - HISTORY".Archived fromthe originalon 2018-08-31.Retrieved2018-08-30.