Burhan Shahidi
Burhan Shahidi | ||
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Борһан Шәһиди | ||
 Shahidi in 1950 | ||
| Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | ||
| In office 12 September 1980 – April 1988 | ||
| Chairman | Deng Xiaoping Deng Yingchao | |
| In office December 1954 – January 1965 | ||
| Chairman | Zhou Enlai | |
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Political Consultative Conference | ||
| In office October 1955 – March 1964 | ||
| Preceded by | Saifuddin Azizi | |
| Succeeded by | Wang Enmao | |
| Chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial People's Government | ||
| In office October 1949 – January 1955 | ||
| Preceded by | new position | |
| Succeeded by | Saifuddin Azizi (Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee) | |
| Governor of Xinjiang | ||
| In office 30 December 1948 – September 1949 | ||
| Preceded by | Masud Sabri | |
| Succeeded by | Yulbars Khan (in exile) | |
| Personal details | ||
| Born | 3 October 1894 Hanyu Pinyin Bāo'érhàn Shāxīdí | |
| Wade–Giles | Pao1-erh2-han4 Sha1-hsi1-ti2 | |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Latin Yëziqi | Burhan Shehidi |
Borhan Şähidi
Burhan Shahidi (3 October 1894 – 27 August 1989) was a
Life
Early life
Burhan Shahidi was born in 1894 in the
In 1929, he was sent to
Republic of China
In 1937, he was dispatched by the next governor,
He was released by
In 1947, Shahidi was transferred to
In 1948, he returned to Xinjiang and became the president of the Xinjiang Academy, the precursor to the
In September of that year, he negotiated with
People's Republic of China
On 17 December 1949, the Xinjiang Provincial People's Government was established and Shahidi became the chairman.[2] Saifuddin Azizi was the deputy chairman. He joined the Chinese Communist Party at the end of the year. In 1952, he headed the preparatory committee to create the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).[2] In 1955, Azizi became the first chairman of the XUAR, and Shahidi's role in the Xinjiang government lessened.
Shahidi was a co-founder and the first chairman of the
On 4 November 1956, Shahidi and
Shahidi supervised Chinese Muslim participation in the hajj until the Cultural Revolution, when he was accused of being a collaborator and a foreigner, and imprisoned for eight years.[13] Afterwards, he was rehabilitated and served as a vice-chairman of the second, third, fifth, sixth and seventh Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee. His memoir, Fifty Years in Xinjiang was published in 1984.
In 1985, to support the return of the critically endangered Père David's deer to China, Shahidi helped found and chair the China Milu Foundation, now known as the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation.[19][20]
He died in 1989 and is buried in the foothills of the Tian Shan in Xinjiang.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b (Chinese) "新疆风云人物 数朝元老包尔汉" Archived 23 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine 1 November 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j (Chinese) "包尔汉率新疆省政府起义始末" 《青年参考》 2009-09-01 Archived 29 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-231-13924-3.
- ^ a b (Chinese) "包尔汉是怎样维护祖国统一的"[permanent dead link] 3 June 2010
- ^ Gladney 2004: 217
- ^ Benson 1990: 63, 70
- ^ Benson 1990: 63
- ^ Benson 1990: 155
- ISBN 978-0-231-08955-5. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
- ^ Starr 2004: 85
- ISBN 978-0-674-02616-2.
- ^ Shichor 1979: 19, 20 & 59
- ^ a b c d e Gladney 1999: 138
- ^ Shichor 1979: 44-45
- ^ (Chinese) "1956年11月4日 胡耀邦出席首都各界支援埃及反抗英法侵略大会"[permanent dead link] Last Accessed 13 November 2010
- ^ (Chinese) "在首都各界人民支援埃及反抗英法侵略大会上 中国伊斯兰教协会主任 包尔汉的讲话"[permanent dead link] Last Accessed 13 November 2010
- ^ (Chinese with photographs) Chinainsights.com Archived 11 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine Last Accessed 13 November 2010
- ^ Shichor 1979: 87
- ^ About CBCGDF, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation Accessed 25 April 2013
- ^ (Chinese)商晓达, 麋鹿与名人 Archived 10 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine 17 December 2007
Sources
- Benson, Linda (1990). The Ili Rebellion: the Moslem challenge to Chinese authority in Xinjiang, 1944–1949. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-509-7.
- Gladney, Dru C. (1999). "The Salafiyya Movement in Northwest China: Islamic Fundamentalism among the Muslim Chinese?". In Leif Manger (ed.). Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts (PDF). Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Surrey: Curzon Press. pp. 102–149. ISBN 978-0-7007-1104-8. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 July 2006.
- Gladney, Dru C. (2004). Dislocating China: reflections on Muslims, minorities, and other subaltern subjects. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-29775-0.
- Shichor, Yitzhak (1979). The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy, 1949–1977d. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22214-3.
- Starr, Frederick (1985). "Chapter 3. Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884–1978 James A. Millward and Nabijan Tursun". Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland. ISBN 978-0-7656-1317-2.
External links
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