1897 in China

Summary

Events from the year 1897 in China.

1897
in
China
Decades:
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
See also:Other events of 1897
History of China  • Timeline  • Years

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  • Red Revenue incident, Chinese revenue stamps were overprinted (surcharged) and subsequently used as postage stamps in 1897[1]

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  1. ^ "1897 Red Revenue Small One Dollar" stamp sells for $970,000 at auction". News.com.au. 3 July 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Yang Zhongjian (1897–1979)". Peking Man Site Museum. Chinese geologist and vertebrate palaeontologist. In 1928, he worked as a technician at the Geological Survey of China, and took charge of the excavation at Zhoukoudian. After the establishment of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory, he had been working as its director of Vertebrate Palaeontological Laboratory, the director of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology of Chinese Academy of Sciences respectively.