1915 in China

• President: Yuan Shikai
• Vice President: Feng Guozhang
• Premier: Xu Shichang (until December 22), Lu Zhengxiang (starting December 22)

• January 8 — Imperial Japanese government issues the Twenty-One Demands to the Chinese
• May 15–21 – The Far Eastern Championship Games take place in Shanghai.{{Cite book |last=Bell |first=Daniel |title=Encyclopedia of international games |date=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=0-7864-1026-4 |location=Jefferson, N.C. |page=473}}
• May 25
• Treaty of Kyakhta (1915)
• the Yuan government accepts four out of the five set of demands issued in the Twenty-One Demands
• December 12 — Empire of China (1915–1916)
• December 25 — beginning of the National Protection War

• Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian (January 28, 1915 – November 2, 2009) is the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan[1] ({{zh|links=no|c=姚念媛|p=Yáo Niànyuán}}). She was a Chinese author who recounted her harrowing experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.
• Peter Zhang Bairen (February 14, 1915 – October 12, 2005) was the unofficial Bishop of Hanyang, China
• Yang Huimin ({{zh|t=楊惠敏|s=杨惠敏|p=Yáng Huìmǐn}}; March 6, 1915 - March 9, 1992) was a Girl Guide during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai who supplied a Republic of China flag and brought supplies to besieged defenders of the Sihang Warehouse
• Wang Daohan ({{zh|c=汪道涵|p=Wāng Dàohán}}), (27 March 1915 – 24 December 2005) was the former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS)
• Sylvia Wu (24 October 1915 – 29 September 2022) was a Chinese-born American restaurateur
• Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China
• Wu Teh Yao (1915–17 April 1994) was an educator and a specialist in Confucianism and political science

• Israel Epstein (20 April 1915 – 26 May 2005) was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author. He was one of the few foreign-born Chinese citizens of non-Chinese origin to become a member of the Chinese Communist Party
• Sidney Shapiro ({{zh|links=no|c=沙博理|p=Shā Bólǐ}}) (December 23, 1915 – October 18, 2014) was an American-born Chinese translator, actor and author who lived in China from 1947 to 2014. He was one of very few naturalized citizens of the PRC

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• {{Cite book |last=Chaurasia |first=R.S. |title=History of Modern China |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2004}}

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