Ma Zhancang

Military Person

– 1937

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Who was Ma Zhancang?

Ma Zhancang was a Chinese Muslim general of the 36th Division, who served under Generals Ma Zhongying and Ma Hushan. At the Battle of Kashgar, he repulsed an attack of Uighurs led by the Syrian Arab Tawfiq Bay, wounding Tawfiq. He fought against Uighur and Kirghiz rebels, and destroyed the First East Turkestan Republic after defeating uighur and Kirghiz fighters at Kashgar, Yarkand, and Yangi Hissar in 1934. He killed the uighur leaders Timur Beg, Abdullah Bughra, and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra.

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1937

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on July 23, 2013

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