List of massacres in China

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in China (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Guangzhou massacre	878–879	Guangzhou	120,000	Foreign merchants (Muslim Arabs, Muslim Persians, Zoroastrian Persians, Christians, and Jews), Chinese, and other of Guangzhou's inhabitants were killed
Sichuan Massacres	1644-1646	Sichuan	Province depopulated (only 18,000 survived from 6 million)	Massacres carried out by Zhang Xianzhong
Yangzhou massacre	1645	Yangzhou	As many as 800,000
Three massacres in Jiading	1645	Jiading	20,000–500,000
Jiangyin massacre	1645	Jiangyin	60,000–100,000
Guangzhou massacre (1650)	1650	Guangzhou	100,000-700,000
Ningpo Massacre	1800s	Ningbo	40	Cantonese pirates supported by the Qing massacred 40 Portuguese pirates
Tianjin Massacre	1870	Tianjin	60
Port Arthur massacre	1894, November 21	Lüshunkou, Liaoning	1000–20,000
Kucheng Massacre	1895, August 1	Gutian, Fujian	11
Taiyuan Massacre	1900, July	Taiyuan, Shanxi
Shanghai massacre of 1927	1927, April 12	Shanghai	300–400	5000 missing
Changsha massacre	1927, May	Changsha	At least 10,000
Kizil massacre	1933, June	near Kashgar, Xinjiang	800
Nanking Massacre	1937, December 13	Nanjing	40,000–300,000	The death toll is disputed, ranging from some Japanese claims of several hundred,[1] to the Chinese claim of a non-combatant death toll of 300,000.[2] Most other nations believe the death toll to be between 150,000–300,000, based on the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal verdict, and another estimate of the civilian toll (excluding soldiers and POWs) is about 40,000–60,000, which corresponds to the figures from three sources.[3]
Changjiao massacre	1943, May 9–12	Changjiao, Hunan	30,000
Daoxian massacre	1967, August 13–October 17	Daoxian, Hunan	4519
Tiananmen incident massacre	1989, June 4	Beijing	241–35,000
Ghulja Incident	1997, February 5	Ghulja, Xinjiang	9–167
Nanping Elementary School Massacre	2010, March 23	Nanping, Fujian	8
Hanzhong Kindergarten Massacre	2010, May 12	Hanzhong, Shaanxi	9
Zibo Kindergarten Massacre	2010, August 4	Zibo, Shandong	4
Gongyi Nursery School Massacre	2010, August 4	Gongyi, Henan	4
Xiamen bus fire	2013, June 7	Xiamen, Fujien	47
Kunming massacre	2014, March 1	Kunming	33 (including four perpetrators)
Sogan Colliery Massacre	2015, September 18	Aksu, Xinjiang	50

References

1. Masaaki Tanaka claims that very few citizens were killed, and that the massacre is in fact a fabrication in his book “Nankin gyakusatsu” no kyokō (The "Nanking Massacre" as Fabrication).
2. "Why the past still separates China and Japan" Robert Marquand (August 20, 2001) Christian Science Monitor. States an estimate of 300,000 dead.
3. "''The Nanking Atrocities: Fact and Fable''". Wellesley.edu. Retrieved 2011-03-06.