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From Yunnan to Xinjiang: Yang Zengxin and his Dungan generals

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This paper examines in detail one story illustrative of the many historical connections between the provinces of China’s western borderlands that were forged by Chinese-speaking Muslims, the ethno-religious community known in Turkic dialects as the ‘Dungan’ and in Mandarin Chinese as the ‘Huizu’ or ‘Huihui’. This is the story of the Dungan troops utilised to great effect by Yang Zengxin 杨增新 (zi Dingchen 鼎臣), governor of Xinjiang province during the two decades after the establishment of th...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
Oxford
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Brill
Journal:
Etudes orientales More from this journal
Volume:
25
Issue:
25
Pages:
93–125
Publication date:
2008-01-01
Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:420795
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uuid:1425e79d-710f-4e64-9d77-98fd7c6a7dff
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pubs:420795
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420795
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2013-12-13

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