1920 in China

Incumbents

• President: Xu Shichang
• Premier: Jin Yunpeng

Events

• July 14–23 – Zhili–Anhui War
• December 16 – 1920 Haiyuan earthquake
• Second Guangdong–Guangxi War
• Alice Dollar incident
• Establishment of the Republic of China Air Force

Births

• April 18 – Wang Zigan, papercutting artist
• May 3 – Xu Liangying, physicist
• August 20 – Jiang Zhuyun, revolutionary martyr
• September 30 – Eileen Chang, writer
• November 24 – Chao Kuang Piu, industrialist and philanthropist

Deaths

• January 17 – Yang Changji, teacher, scholar and writer
• January 23 – Mao Yichang, farmer and grain merchant, father of Mao Zedong
• Li Ruiqing
• Li Chun