1. Dong Fuxiang, courtesy name Xingwu, was a Chinese general who lived in the late Qing dynasty.
17 Facts About Dong Fuxiang
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Dong Fuxiang was born in the Western Chinese province of Gansu.
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Dong Fuxiang commanded an army of Hui soldiers, which included the later Ma clique generals Ma Anliang and Ma Fuxiang.
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Dong Fuxiang was a non-Muslim Han Chinese general who commanded Muslim Hui soldiers.
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The British consular officer Erich Teichman traveling in Gansu was repeatedly told that Dong Fuxiang was Han Chinese and not a Muslim, but the consular officer insisted on wrongly believing he was a Muslim.
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The confusion over his religion was cleared up by Jonathan Neamen Lipman who noted that westerners had made the mistake of assuming that Dong was a Muslim since he commanded Muslim soldiers during the Boxer Rebellion, and the mistake was repeated by later western encyclopedias and works on Islam and on the Boxer Rebellion.
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The Chinese Muslim armies of Dong Fuxiang were known as the Kansu Braves and they fought against the German Army and the other eight nation alliance forces, repeatedly at the First intervention, Seymour Expedition, China 1900.
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Dong Fuxiang participated in the Dungan revolt, and defected to the Qing dynasty side, along with Ma Zhanao.
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Dong Fuxiang was not a fanatic or even interested in rebellion, he merely had gathered a band of followers during the rebellion and fought, just as many others did.
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Dong Fuxiang joined the Qing army of Zuo Zongtang in exchange for being appointed Mandarin.
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In 1890 Dong Fuxiang was stationed at Aksu, Kashgaria and was a Brigadier.
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Rumors were flying around that Dong Fuxiang was allegedly going to massacre the foreigners in Beijing.
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Dong Fuxiang attended multiple audiences with the Empress Dowager Cixi from 27 to 29 May 1900 to affirm in her his belief that he could defeat and expel the foreigners from China.
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Dong Fuxiang was so anti-foreign that he used an old Chinese instrument, Sheng Jia, instead of modern brass bands, and had his troops wear traditional Chinese uniforms instead of western military uniforms.
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Dong Fuxiang's troops were responsible for so much trouble that the United States Marine Corps had to be called in.
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Dong Fuxiang was a sworn brother to Li Lai chung, another Boxer supporter and anti foreigner.
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Dong Fuxiang defeated the Westerners during the Battle of Langfang.