1877 in China
# 1877 in China

Events from the year 1877 in China.

## Incumbents

* Guangxu Emperor (3rd year)
   * Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi

### Viceroys

* Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang
* Viceroy of Min-Zhe — He Jing
* Viceroy of Huguang — Li Hanzhang
* Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Zuo Zongtang
* Viceroy of Liangguang — Liu Kunyi
* Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Liu Changyou
* Viceroy of Sichuan — Ding Baozhen
* Viceroy of Liangjiang — Shen Baozhen

## Events

* Dungan Revolt (1862–77)
* Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79
   * Shandong Famine Relief Committee was established with the participation of diplomats, businessmen, and Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries to combat the famine
* Woosung Road railway purchased and dismantled by Viceroy of Liangjiang Shen Baozhen

## Deaths

* Gu Taiqing (Chinese: 顾太清; Pinyin: Gù Tàiqīng; 1799 – c. 1877) writer and poet, one of the top-ranked women poets of the Qing Dynasty.
* Yaqub Beg, killed in the Qing reconquest of Xinjiang
