On 4 DECEMBER IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on December 4, 2018
1892: Birth of Liu Bocheng, Chinese Communist military commander and Marshal of the People’s Liberation Army, who died on October 7, 1986
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Long-March/Long-March-Liu-Bocheng.html
1894: Birth of T.V. Soong, Chinese banker, brother-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek, who died on 24 April 1971
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Soong
1895: Birth of Fung Yu-lan (Feng Youlan), Chinese philosopher who died in 1990
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Feng_Youlan
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/feng.youlan.html
1918: Birth of Gong Qiuxia, Chinese actress who died in September 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_Qiuxia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mX1KUP5OF0
1939: Death of Chinese powerful warlord Wu Peifu, born on April 22, 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Peifu
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Wu_Peifu.aspx
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11400.html
1946: Birth of Cheng Pei-pei, Chinese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Pei-pei
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/gallery.asp?fid=&pid=300&type=0&id=13295
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-R74vHffRo&feature=related
1948: Ship Kiangya transporting Chinese civil war refugees hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750 die
http://world.time.com/2012/01/20/unsafe-at-sea-asias-history-of-deadly-ferry-disasters/slide/ss-kiangya-china-1948/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs5qWLRC8h0
1950: During the Korea War, Pyongyang is retaken by communist forces
1951: Birth of Chang Yi, Chinese film director and scripwriter
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=636
1966: Former mayor of Beijing, Peng Zhen, is arrested by Red Guards
http://www.chinavitae.org/biography/Peng_Zhen/career
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/p/e.htm#peng-zhen
1982: After two years on work, the People Republic of China new constitution is adopted
http://english.people.com.cn/constitution/constitution.html
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11374.html
2005: Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2005_protest_for_democracy_in_Hong_Kong
2007: A new bishop, supported by Vatican, is ordained in China. He is Joseph Gan Junqiu, ordained in the Sacred Heart cathedral in Guangzhou
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10945
2008: Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, address Europe’s lawmakers, restating that he was seeking autonomy within China – not independence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7764533.stm