Saifuddin Azizi
Saifuddin Azizi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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赛福鼎·艾则孜 سەيپىدىن ئەزىزى | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CCP Committee Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office July 1972 – January 1978 (Acting: July 1972 – June 1973) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Long Shujin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Wang Feng | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office October 1955 – January 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Burhan Shahidi (as Governor of Xinjiang) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Long Shujin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hanyu Pinyin Saìfúdǐng Àizézī | | 12 March 1915|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wade–Giles | Sai4-fu2-ting3 Ai4-tse2-tzu1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IPA | [sâɪfǔtìŋ âɪtsɤ̌tsɹ̩́] |
Transcriptions | |
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Latin Yëziqi | Seypidin Ezizi |
Yengi Yeziⱪ | Səypidin Əzizi |
Siril Yëziqi | Сəйпидин Əзизи |
Saifuddin Azizi (officially transcribed as Seypidin Azizi;
Biography
Azizi was born in
From December 1949 through January 1950, he accompanied
Uyghur linguist Ibrahim Muti'i opposed the Second East Turkestan Republic and was against the Ili Rebellion because it was backed by the Soviets and Stalin. Saifuddin Azizi later apologized to Ibrahim and admitted that his opposition to the East Turkestan Republic was the correct thing to do.[8]
At the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, he secured the role of regional Chairman of Xinjiang, a job he kept from 1955 to 1978, with a brief respite during the Cultural Revolution.[9] He was a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the First through Seventh National People's Congress and an alternate member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party of the 10th and 11th CCP Central Committee.[2] From 1993 to 1998, he served as a vice-chairman of the CPPCC National Committee.[10] He died of illness at the age of 88.[2]
References
- ^ "Yu Zhengsheng attends symposium commemorating Seypidin Azizi". www.cppcc.gov.cn. National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
- ^ a b c "Noted Uygur leader Seypidin Azizi dies". People's Daily. 25 November 2003.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-89158-452-0.
- ISBN 978-0-674-14850-5 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland by S. Frederick Starr
- ^ Benson, Linda; Ingvar Svanberg (1998). China's last Nomads: the history and culture of China's Kazaks. M.E. Sharpe. p. 100.
- ^ Bovingdon, Gardner (2010). The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. Columbia University Press. p. 199.
- S2CID 145009760. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ Dillon, Michael (2004). Xinjiang: China's Muslim far northwest. Routledge. p. 79.
- ^ China Vitae Accessed 30 October 2010