Ma Rulong
Nickname(s)Marshal Ma
BornYunnan
AllegianceFlag of the Qing dynasty Qing dynasty
Years of service1856–his death
Rankgeneral
Battles/warsPanthay Rebellion
Ma Rulong
Traditional Chinese馬如龍
Simplified Chinese马如龙

Ma Rulong (Ma Ju-lung in Wade Giles) was a Chinese Muslim who originally rebelled against the Qing dynasty along with Du Wenxiu in the Panthay Rebellion. He later defected to the Qing side.[1] After officially surrendering in 1862 his forces effectively occupied the capital of Yunnan.[2] He then helped the Qing forces crush his fellow Muslim rebels, and defeated them.[3][4][5] He was known by the name of Marshal Ma to Europeans and achieved almost total control in Yunnan province.[6] He was the most powerful military official in the province after the war.[7]

Du Wenxiu was fought against by the defector to the Qing Ma Rulong.[8]

General Ma Yu-kun, who fought against Japanese forces in the First Sino-Japanese War and against foreigners in the Boxer Rebellion was believed to be Ma Rulong's son by Europeans.[4]

Relationship with Ma Dexin

The prominent Hui scholar Ma Dexin was respected by both Du Wenxiu & Ma Rulong as a spiritual leader.[9] In 1860; Ma Dexin sent Ma Rulong with forces to help Du Wenxiu fight the Qing; assuring him that:

"I have already secretly ordered my disciples [mensheng] Ma [Rulong] as the Grand Commander of Three Directions, with Ma Rong as second in command . . . to launch a rearguard attack from their base in Yimen."[10]

Ma Rulong studied and learned Arabic under Ma Dexin.[11] Ma Dexin opposed Ma Rulong's acceptance of the Qing policy of "using Hui to fight other Hui".[12]

Surrender to the Qing

There is evidence that Ma Dexin, Ma Rulong & the Hui forces with them only pretended to surrender (in 1862) in order to gain access to the city of Kunming. Even after their supposed capitulation to the Qing; Ma Rulong continued to issue proclamations using his seal "Generalissimo of the Three Directions" while Ma Dexin refused to accept the Civil title granted to him; not wanting to be associated with the Qing regime. The Hui rebels taunted the Hui who hadn't joined the rebellion as being fake Hui (jia Huizi). Taiwanese researcher Li Shoukong asserts that in responding to the Qing offer for surrender; Ma Rulong acted hastily with no plan or thought other than to gain access to the Walled city of Kunming. Many Hui rebels had employed a similar tactic in the early years of the rebellion.[13]

To test his loyalty Ma Rulong was sent to pacify the disgruntled magistrate of Lin'an (in Southern Yunnan). A few weeks after Ma Rulong left the city; rebel forces led by Ma Rong and Ma Liansheng stormed Kunming & captured it. Ma Rulong's forces had come to believe that he could no longer be trusted to achieve their goal of uniting under a single rebel government. Seeking to join Du Wenxiu and unite in opposition to the Qing; the Hui raised the white banner of the Pingnan State, dropped regional references and began to refer to themselves from this point on as Muslims. In 1863 Ma Dexin declared himself "King-Who-Pacifies-the-South (Pingnan Wang)", seized the official seals & stopped using the Qing reign year when dating documents. Ma Dexin hoped to keep the rebel forces united under him until he could hand over control to Du Wenxiu.[14]

Ma Rulong immediately rushed back to Kunming, His former followers rebuked him from the city walls and told him that "If you only crave to be an official with no thought for your fellow Muslims, you should return to [your home in] Guanyi." Ma Rulong attacked the city along with Qing forces; ordered Ma Dexin to give up his seals of office & placed him under house arrest.[15]

Reason's for Ma's unpopularity

There were 2 reasons for Ma's sudden unpopularity among the Yunnanese Muslims:

  1. Du Wenxiu who controlled western Yunnan provided a viable alternative to Qing rule.
  2. Many of the Hui who had surrendered with Ma Rulong considered the surrender to merely be a ruse in order to take over the province. Even if Ma Rulong might have become unsure about continuing the rebellion; many of those who had surrendered with him meant to carry on with the fight against the Qing.

The Hui rebels viewed Ma Rulong as someone who had betrayed the anti-Qing cause, and this generated widespread resentment among his followers.[16]

References

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  1. ↑ Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger (1893). A Short History of China: Being an Account for the General Reader of an Ancient Empire and People. London: Allen. p. 319.
  2. ↑ David G. Atwill (2005). The Chinese sultanate: Islam, ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in southwest China, 1856–1873. Stanford University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-8047-5159-5.
  3. ↑ Henry Davenport Northrop; John Russell Young (1894). The flowery kingdom and the land of the mikado: or, China, Japan, and Corea; containing their complete history down to the present time ... CHICAGO: C. W. Stanton company. p. 130. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
  4. 1 2 Eliakim Littell; Robert S. Littell; Making of America Project (1900). The living age ..., Volume 226. BOSTON: The Living Age Co. Inc. p. 757.
  5. ↑ John Holmes Agnew; Walter Hilliard Bidwell (1900). The Eclectic magazine: foreign literature. Leavitt, Throw and Co. p. 620.
  6. ↑ Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger (1898). The history of China, Volume 2. LONDON: W. Thacker & co. p. 443.
  7. ↑ Garnaut, Anthony. "From Yunnan to Xinjiang:Governor Yang Zengxin and his Dungan Generals" (PDF). Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
  8. ↑ John King Fairbank (1978). The Cambridge History of China: Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 2. Cambridge University Press. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-0-521-22029-3.
  9. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. p. 120.
  10. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. pp. 117–118.
  11. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. p. 106.
  12. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. p. 173.
  13. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. pp. 125–126.
  14. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. pp. 127–128.
  15. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. pp. 129–130.
  16. ↑ G. Atwill, David (2005). The Chinese Sultanate Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford University Press. p. 129.


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