1915 in China
Events in the year 1915 in China.
Incumbents
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 is the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan. 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 was the unofficial Bishop of Hanyang, China
- Yang Huimin 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, was the former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
- Sylvia Wu was a Chinese-born American restaurateur
- Hu Yaobang was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China
- Wu Teh Yao was an educator and a specialist in Confucianism and political science
Other countries
- Israel Epstein 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 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