1877 in China
Events from the year 1877 in China.
Incumbents
- Guangxu Emperor
- * Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — He Jing
- Viceroy of Huguang — Li Hanzhang
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Zuo Zongtang
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Liu Kunyi
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Liu Changyou
- Viceroy of Sichuan — Ding Baozhen
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Shen Baozhen
Events
- Dungan Revolt (1862–77)
- Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79
- * Shandong Famine Relief Committee was established with the participation of diplomats, businessmen, and Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries to combat the famine
- Woosung Road railway purchased and dismantled by Viceroy of Liangjiang Shen Baozhen
Deaths
- Gu Taiqing writer and poet, one of the top-ranked women poets of the Qing Dynasty.
- Yaqub Beg, killed in the Qing reconquest of Xinjiang