Events in the year 1888 in China.
Incumbents
Guangxu Emperor (14th year) Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi
Viceroys
Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang
Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Yang Changjun then Bian Baodi
Viceroy of Huguang — Yulu
Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Tan Zhonglin then Yang Changjun
Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhang Zhidong
Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Cen Yuying
Viceroy of Sichuan — Liu Bingzhang
Viceroy of Liangjiang — Zeng Guoquan
Events
Sikkim expedition, an 1888 British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim in present-day northeast India. March 12 — Qing government signed a treaty with the US banning Chinese laborers from entering the US in accordance with the Chinese Exclusion Act Lingnan University established in Canton, Kwangtung Province, China (now Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China). It was a private university established by a group of American missionaries in 1888 October 1 — The Scott Act (1888) signed into law, was a United States law that prohibited Chinese laborers abroad or who planned future travels from returning, met with opposition in China, especially Guangdong
Births
Zhan Dabei (1888, Hubei - 1927) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was an anti-Manchu rebel active at the time of the 1911 Revolution