1905 in China

• Guangxu Emperor (31st year)

• Viceroy of Zhili — Yuan Shikai
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wei Guangtao then Shengyun then Songfan then Duanfang
• Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Zhidong
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Songfan then Shengyun
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Cen Chunxuan
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Ding Zhenduo
• Viceroy of Sichuan — Xiliang
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Duanfang

• May 10 — Chinese Boycott of 1905 begins, it is a large-scale boycott of American goods in China in reaction to a string of anti-Chinese events in the United States.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}
• The boycott originated when the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco called upon the people of China to pressure the United States into treating the Chinese immigrants in America better.Lai, H., Huang, J. and Wong, D. (1980). The Chinese of America. San Francisco: Phelps-Schaefer, pp.50-51.
• Tibetan rebellion of 1905 in Yunnan province began with a series of attacks on Christian missionaries and converts and ended with the imperial Chinese government re-asserting control of the province.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}
• August 20 — Tongmenghui, a secret society and underground resistance movement, is founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Japan{{cite web|url=http://www.countriesquest.com/asia/china/history/imperial_china/the_manchu_qing_dynasty_1644-1911/internal_threats.htm |title=The Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Internal Threats |work=Countries Quest |access-date=26 September 2011}}{{cite book |author1=計秋楓 |author2=朱慶葆 |title=Zhongguo jin dai shi |year=2001 |script-title=zh:中國近代史 |volume=1 |publisher=Chinese University Press. |isbn=9789622019874 |page=[https://archive.org/details/zhongguojindaish0000hsim/page/468 468] |url=https://archive.org/details/zhongguojindaish0000hsim/page/468 }}

• February 13 — Yang Jingyu, communist, military commander and political commissar (d. 1940)
• February 28 — Xu Shiyou, general of the People's Liberation Army (d. 1985)
• March 5 — Dai Wangshu, poet, essayist and translator (d. 1950)
• March 15 — Zuo Quan, general in the Chinese Red Army and senior staff officer of the Eighth Route Army (d. 1942)
• April 26 — Xie Jinyuan, nationalist military officer (d. 1941)
• May 26 — Wang Shusheng, general, strategist and revolutionary (d. 1974)
• June 13
• Chen Yun, revolutionary leader and one of the most influential leaders of China in the 1980s and 1990s (d. 1995)
• Xian Xinghai, composer (d. 1945)
• September 17 — Feng Zhi, writer and translator (d. 1993)
• September 25 — Mao Zetan, younger brother of Mao Zedong (d. 1935)
• October 16 — Lee Wai Tong, association football player and head coach (d. 1979)
• October 25 — Gao Gang, leader of the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War (d. 1954)
• December 11 — Jiao Juyin, director, translator and theater theorist (d. 1975)

• April 3 — Zou Rong, Chinese nationalist and revolutionary (b. 1885)
• June 3 — Hudson Taylor, protestant christian missionary (b. 1832)
• August 23 — Liu Bingzhang, scholar-official and general (b. 1826)
• December 8 — Chen Tianhua, revolutionary (b. 1875)

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