{"id":218,"date":"2008-09-05T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-09-05T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T03:12:58","slug":"the-ma-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/09\/05\/the-ma-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ma family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"banner of Three Ma of the NW\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/08\/600px-flag_of_the_ma_cliquesvg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-267\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/08\/600px-flag_of_the_ma_cliquesvg-300x200.png\" alt=\"the triangular banner of the \" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Ma clan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ma_clique\">Ma <\/a>were a family of Hui (i.e., Han Chinese Muslim) warlords in northwestern China in the first half of the 20th century, a bloody and complex period in the region.\u00a0 The two most famous members of the clan were <a title=\"Ma Bufang\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ma_Bufang\">Ma Bufang<\/a> and <a title=\"Ma Zhongying\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ma_Zhongying\">Ma Zhongying<\/a>, who fought with Chiang Kai-shek against the Communist forces.\u00a0 Ma Bufang ruled Qinghai from 1937 until the Communist victory in 1949.\u00a0 Ma Zhongying, was warlord of neighboring Gansu and fought unsuccesfully to control Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, Ma Zhongying fled to the Soviet Union and was probably executed by Stalin in a purge in 1937.\u00a0 After the Communist takeover, his cousin, Ma Bufang became the Taiwanese ambassador to Saudi Arabia although he was removed from his post in 1961 by the Taiwanese government after he forced his niece to become his concubine.\u00a0\u00a0 He never returned to China and died in Saudi Arabia in 1975.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s a book in here somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ma Bufong's palace in Linxia\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/08\/ma_palace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft alignnone size-medium wp-image-268\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/08\/ma_palace-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Ma Palace in Linxia\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ma Bufong&#8217;s <a title=\"Ma palace in Linxia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peres.biz\/routedelasoie\/villes3.htm\">palace in Linxia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Ma palace in Linxia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peres.biz\/routedelasoie\/villes3.htm\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ma were a family of Hui (i.e., Han Chinese Muslim) warlords in northwestern China in the first half of the 20th century, a bloody and complex period in the region.\u00a0 The two most famous members of the clan were &hellip; 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