Ma Shaowu

Ma Shaowu

Ma Shaowu (馬紹武, 1874–1937) , a Hui, was born in Yunnan, China. He was a mandarin during the Qing dynasty. He became the military commander of Kucha and Daotai of Kashgar in Xinjiang under governor Yang Zengxin

Quotes

• I have served the Government of China for many years, first the Emperor, and after that the Republican Government at Nanking. I have always tried to do my best; but I must have committed errors--- though I do not know what they were---or this misfortune would not have befallen me. I have lost face.
  • Peter Fleming (1999). News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. Evanston Illinois: Northwestern University Press. p. 327. ISBN 0810160714. Retrieved on 2010-06-28. 
• I lost my post when, as a result of the troubles, China lost her authority in Kashgar.
  • Ella K. Maillart (2006). Forbidden Journey. READ BOOKS. p. 255. ISBN 1406719269. Retrieved on 2010-06-28. 

About Ma Shaowu

• (simplified Chinese: 马福元宣布：“喀什前道尹马绍武应马占仓和马福元之请，代表中国当局负最高军事和民政监督之职”; traditional Chinese: 馬福元宣布：“喀什前道尹馬紹武應馬占倉和馬福元之請，代表中國當局負最高軍事和民政監督之職”
  • Translation: "Assumed senior military and civil control on behalf of the Chinese Republic at the request of Ma Chan-ts'ang and Ma Fu-yuan" (Statement made by Ma Fuyuan about Ma Shaowu)
    • Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 122. ISBN 0521255147. Retrieved on 2010-06-28. 
    • 新疆历史上的短命分裂政权——“东突厥斯坦伊斯兰共和国”的覆灭. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.