title: 1877 in China
text: # 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
  