← 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1902 in China → 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
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Events from the year 1902 in China.

Incumbents

• Guangxu Emperor (23rd year)

Events

• signing of the Mackay Treaty — a sixteen article treaty signed by the governments of Great Britain and the Chinese Qing dynasty on 5 September 1902. Under the terms of the treaty, the likin system of taxation was abolished and the first moves made to abolish extraterritoriality for foreign nationals.

Births

• 7 May — Guo Tianmin (郭天民, 1902 – 1970) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China from Hubei^[1]