1915 in China

Incumbents

• President: Yuan Shikai
• Vice President: Feng Guozhang
• Premier: Xu Shichang, Lou Tseng-Tsiang

  Events

• January 8 — Imperial Japanese government issues the Twenty-One Demands to the Chinese
• May 25 - Treaty of Kyakhta
• May 25 — the Yuan government accepts four out of the five set of demands issued in the Twenty-One Demands
• December 12 — Empire of China
• December 25 — beginning of the National Protection War

  Births

• 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
• 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
• 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 Communist Party of China
• 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

  Deaths