Ma Qi

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Ma Qi
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General Ma Qi
Military Governor of Qinghai
In office
Oct 1915 – Dec 1928
Preceded by Lian Xing (Lien Hsing) Post Created (the post was Previously Chief Executive Officer of Kokonur)
Succeeded by Sun Lianzhong (Sun Lien-chung) (as Chairman)
Chairman of the Government of Qinghai
In office
Sep 1929 – May 1931
Preceded by Sun Lianzhong (Sun Lien-chung)
Succeeded by Ma Lin (warlord)
Personal details
Born 1869
Linxia County, Gansu, Qing China
Died 5 August 1931 (aged 61–62)
Xining, Qinghai, Republic of China
Nationality Hui
Political party Kuomintang
Children Ma Bufang
Ma Buqing
Religion Sunni Islam
Military service
Allegiance Flag of the Qing dynasty Qing Empire Flag of the Republic of China Republic of China
Years of service 1890's-1931
Rank general
Unit Ninghai Army
Commands General of Xining
Battles/wars Boxer Rebellion, Bai Lang Rebellion, Kuomintang Pacification of Qinghai

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ma.

Ma Qi (1869 – 5 August 1931) (simplified Chinese: 马麒; traditional Chinese: 馬麒; pinyin: Mǎ Qí; Wade–Giles: Ma Ch'i) was a Chinese Muslim warlord in early 20th century China.

Early life

A Hui, Ma was born in 1869 in Daohe, now part of Linxia, Gansu, China. His father was Ma Haiyan, and his brother was Ma Lin. He was a senior commander in the Qinghai-Gansu region during the late Qing dynasty.

Ma Qi lead loyalist Muslim troops to crush Muslim rebels during the Dungan Revolt (1895).[1]

During the Boxer Rebellion, Ma Haiyan defeated the foreign army at the Battle of Langfang in 1900, and died while protecting the Imperial Family from the western forces. Ma Qi succeeded him in all his posts and capacities. Ma Qi was 6 feet (183 cm) tall, and maintained the mintuan militia in Xining as his personal army, called the Ninghaijun.[1]

Ma Qi also directly defied his commanding officer, the Muslim General Ma Anliang, when Ma Wanfu, the Muslim brotherhood leader, was being shipped to Gansu from Xinjiang by Yang Zengxin, to Ma Anliang, so Ma Anliang could execute Ma Wanfu, Ma Qi rescued Ma Wanfu by attacking the escort and brought him to Qinghai. Ma Anliang hated Muslim brotherhood, which he banned earlier, and sentenced all its members to death, and wanted to personally execute Ma Wanfu because he was its leader.

During the Xinhai Revolution, Ma Qi easily defeated Gelaohui revolutionaries in Ningxia, sending their heads rolling, but when the Emperor abdicated, Ma Qi declared support for the Republic of China.[2][3] Unlike the Mongols and Tibetans, the Muslims refused to secede from the Republic, and Ma Qi quickly used his diplomatic and military powers to make the Tibetan and Mongol nobles recognize the Republic of China government as their overlord, and sent a message to President Yuan Shikai reaffirming that Qinghai was securely in the Republic. He replaced "Long, Long, Long, Live the reigning Emperor", with "Long live the Republic of China" on inscriptions.[4]

Ma Qi developed relations with Wu Peifu, who tried to turn Gansu military leaders against Feng Yuxiang. Feng's subordinate, Liu Yufen expelled all the Han Generals who opposed him, which resulted in Hui Generals Ma Hongbin, Ma Lin, Ma Tingxiang, and Han General Bei Jianzhang, the commander of a Hui army, to stop fighting against Feng and seek an agreement.[5]

Republican times

In 1913 a Qinghai wool and hide bureau was established by Ma Qi. It put an export tax on the wool trade with foreigners.[6]

Ma Qi formed the Ninghai Army in Qinghai in 1915.

Ma Qi occupied Labrang monastery in 1917, the first time non Tibetans had seized it.[7]

After ethnic rioting between Muslims and Tibetans emerged in 1918, Ma Qi defeated the Tibetans. He heavily taxed the town for 8 years. In 1921, Ma Qi and his Muslim army decisively crushed the Tibetan monks of Labrang monastery when they tried to oppose him.[8] In 1925, a Tibetan rebellion broke out, with thousands of Tibetans driving out the Muslims. Ma Qi responded with 3,000 Chinese Muslim troops, who retook Labrang and machine gunned thousands of Tibetan monks as they tried to flee.[9][10] Ma Qi besieged Labrang numerous times, the Tibetans and Mongols fought against his Muslim forces for control of Labrang, until Ma Qi gave it up in 1927.[11]

Ma Qi defeated the Tibetan forces with his Muslim troops.[12] His forces were praised by foreigners who traveled through Qinghai for their fighting abilities.[13]

However, that was not the last Labrang saw of General Ma. Ma Qi launched a genocidal war against the Tibetan Ngoloks in 1928, inflicting a defeat upon them and seizing the Labrang Buddhist monastery.[citation needed]

After the founding of the Republic he was governor of Qinghai from 1915 to 1928 and the first chairman of the government of Qinghai from 1929 to 1931.[14] After Chiang Kai-shek gained control nationwide, he became a brigade commander, and then was promoted to commander of the 26th Division of the National Revolutionary Army in the northwestern region. His civil posts also included director of the Gansu Bureau of Construction. Ma Qi's eldest son was Ma Buqing and another son of his was Ma Bufang.[15] Ma Qi was the uncle of Ma Zhongying. He died on 5 August 1931, in Xining, Qinghai, China.[16]

See also

References

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