Yang Zengxin
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Yang Zengxin
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| Governor of Xinjiang | |
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In office 1912 – July 7, 1928 |
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| Preceded by | Yuan Dahua |
| Succeeded by | Jin Shuren |
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| Born | 1864 Mengzi, Yunnan, Qing dynasty |
| Died | July 7, 1928 Urumqi, Xinjiang, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Xinjiang clique |
| Residence | Urumqi |
| Profession | Magistrate |
Yang Zengxin (traditional Chinese: 楊增新; simplified Chinese: 杨增新; pinyin: Yáng Zēngxīn; Wade–Giles: Yang Tseng-hsin; 1864 – July 7, 1928) was the ruler of Xinjiang after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 until his assassination in 1928.
Yang Zengxin was born in Mengzi, Yunnan Province in 1864. Though a Han Chinese, he had connections with the leading Muslim families of Yunnan. He was an expert in Islam and Islamic culture.
Hezhou Prefecture Magistrate Yang Zengxin wrote an essay on Sufi menhuan dated 1897.
Ma Yuanzhang, a Sufi Jahriyya Shaykh, gave his support for Yang Zengxin to seize power in Xinjiang. This enabled Yang to immediately raise a massive army of Hui Muslim troops, mainly from Jahriyya mosque communities.
The Muslim General Ma Anliang, in cooperation with magistrate Yang Zengxin, attempted to arrest and execute the Yihewani(Ikhwan in Arabic) leader Ma Wanfu. Ma Qi, one of Ma Anliang's suboordinates, staged a rescue operation and brought Ma Wanfu to Xining. Ma Anliang and Yang Zengxin were both monarchists and did not trust republicanism, they had served in the Qing military together.
Yang came to power after he defeated the revolutionaries that caused the last Qing dynasty governor Yuan Dahua to flee during the Xinhai Revolution in Xinjiang. The Ili revolutionaries and the Gelaohui were eliminated by Yang. Yang appointed Ma Fuxing as military commander of 2,000 Chinese Muslim troops, to crush Yang's rivals. President Yuan Shikai recognized his rule and in return he supported Yuan's revival of the monarchy by inviting Republican anti-Yuan rebels to a banquet and decapitating them on New Year's Day, 1916. Yang believed monarchy was the best system for China, and some western travelers noted with approval, that Yang was a former Mandarin unlike the Republican governors of the other provinces.
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