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{{Short description|Ethnic group |
{{Short description|Ethnic group in Xinjiang, China}} |
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| group = Kazakhs in China |
| group = Kazakhs in China |
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| native_name = {{native name|zh-Hans-CN|中国哈萨克族}}<br />{{native name|kk-Arab| |
| native_name = {{native name|zh-Hans-CN|中国哈萨克族}}<br />{{native name|kk-Arab|جۇڭگو قازاقتارى}} |
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| population = 1,462,588 |
| population = 1,462,588 |
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| popplace = [[Xinjiang]] ([[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]], [[Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County|Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County]], [[Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County|Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County]], [[Mori Kazakh Autonomous County]]) |
| popplace = [[Xinjiang]] ([[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]], [[Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County|Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County]], [[Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County|Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County]], [[Mori Kazakh Autonomous County]]) |
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| rels = [[Sunni Islam]] |
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| related = [[Turkic peoples]] |
| related = [[Turkic peoples]] |
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| s = 中国哈萨克族 |
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| t = 中國哈薩克族 |
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| p = Zhōngguó Hāsàkèzú |
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| lang1_content = {{lang|kk-Arab|جۇڭگو قازاقتارى}}<br />{{lang|kk|Қытайда тұратын қазақтар}} |
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{{Islam in China}} |
{{Islam in China}} |
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[[Kazakhs]] are a [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] [[ethnic group]] and |
[[Kazakhs]] are a [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] [[ethnic group]] and one of the 56 [[List of ethnic groups in China|ethnic groups]] officially recognized by the [[China|People's Republic of China]]. There is one Kazakh [[autonomous prefecture]]{{snd}}[[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture|Ili]] in [[Xinjiang]]{{snd}}and three Kazakh [[Autonomous county|autonomous counties]]{{snd}}[[Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County|Aksay]] in [[Gansu]], and [[Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County|Barkol]] and [[Mori Kazakh Autonomous County|Mori]] in Xinjiang. |
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In China, there is one [[autonomous prefecture]]{{snd}}[[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture|Ili]] in [[Xinjiang]]{{snd}}and three Kazakh [[Autonomous county|autonomous counties]]{{snd}}[[Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County|Aksay]] in [[Gansu]], and [[Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County|Barkol]] and [[Mori Kazakh Autonomous County|Mori]] in Xinjiang. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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[[File:Saukele, Kasakh nomades, 19th century.jpg|thumb|Kazakh nomads in the 19th century]] |
[[File:Saukele, Kasakh nomades, 19th century.jpg|thumb|Kazakh nomads in the 19th century]] |
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During the fall of the [[Dzungar Khanate]] in the mid-18th century, the [[Qing dynasty|Manchus]] massacred the native [[Dzungar people|Dzungar Oirat Mongols]] of [[Dzungaria]] (northern Xinjiang Province) in the [[Dzungar genocide]], and afterwards colonized the depopulated area with immigrants from many parts of their empire. Among the peoples who [[Migration to Xinjiang#Settlement of Dzungaria with Han, Hui, Uyghurs (Taranchi), Xibo and others|moved into the depopulated Dzungaria]] were the Kazakhs from the Kazakh Khanates.<ref>{{cite journal|title=XVIII |
During the fall of the [[Dzungar Khanate]] in the mid-18th century, the [[Qing dynasty|Manchus]] massacred the native [[Dzungar people|Dzungar Oirat Mongols]] of [[Dzungaria]] (northern Xinjiang Province) in the [[Dzungar genocide]], and afterwards colonized the depopulated area with immigrants from many parts of their empire. Among the peoples who [[Migration to Xinjiang#Settlement of Dzungaria with Han, Hui, Uyghurs (Taranchi), Xibo and others|moved into the depopulated Dzungaria]] were the Kazakhs from the Kazakh Khanates.<ref>{{cite journal|title=XVIII – XIX Centuries. In the Manuscripts of teh Kazakhs of China |url=https://www.academia.edu/7076999|last1=Smagulova|first1=Anar|publisher=East Kazakhstan State University}}</ref> |
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In the 19th century, the advance of the [[Russian Empire]] troops pushed the Kazakhs to neighboring countries. Russian settlers on traditional Kazakh land drove many over the border to China, causing their population to increase in China.<ref name="CarruthersMiller1914">{{cite book|author1=Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers|author2=Jack Humphrey Miller|title=Unknown Mongolia: A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-west Mongolia and Dzungaria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHsTAAAAYAAJ&q=chinese+kirghiz+driven+over+russian+settlers|year=1914|publisher=Hutchinson & Company|page=345 |
In the 19th century, the advance of the [[Russian Empire]] troops pushed the Kazakhs to neighboring countries. Russian settlers on traditional Kazakh land drove many over the border to China, causing their population to increase in China.<ref name="CarruthersMiller1914">{{cite book|author1=Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers|author2=Jack Humphrey Miller|title=Unknown Mongolia: A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-west Mongolia and Dzungaria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHsTAAAAYAAJ&q=chinese+kirghiz+driven+over+russian+settlers|year=1914|publisher=Hutchinson & Company|page=345}}</ref> |
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During the [[Russian Revolution]], when Muslims faced [[conscription]], Xinjiang again became a sanctuary for Kazakhs fleeing Russia.<ref name="Forbes1986">{{cite book|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA17|date=9 October 1986|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-25514-1|pages=17–}}</ref> During the 1920s, hundreds of thousands of Kazakh nomads moved from Soviet Kazakhstan to Xinjiang to escape Soviet persecution, famine,{{Notetag|This included the [[Kazakh famine of 1919–1922]] and [[Kazakh famine of 1930–1933]].}} violence, and forced [[sedentarization]].<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Genina|first=Anna|date=2015|title=Claiming Ancestral Homelandsː Mongolian Kazakh migration in Inner Asia|type=A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology) in The University of Michigan|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/111536/anngen_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|page=113}}</ref> Kazakhs that moved to China fought for the Soviet Communist-backed Uyghur [[Second East Turkestan Republic]] in the [[Ili Rebellion]] (1944–1949). |
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Toops{{who|date=May 2023}} estimated that 326,000 Kazakhs, 65,000 Kirghiz, 92,000 Hui, 187,000 Han, and 2,984,000 Uyghur (totaling 3,730,000) lived in Xinjiang in 1941. Hoppe{{who|date=May 2023}} estimated that 4,334,000 people lived in Xinjiang in 1949.<ref name="Bellér-Hann2008 3">{{cite book|first=Ildikó|last=Bellér-Hann|title=Community Matters in Xinjiang, |
Toops{{who|date=May 2023}} estimated that 326,000 Kazakhs, 65,000 Kirghiz, 92,000 Hui, 187,000 Han, and 2,984,000 Uyghur (totaling 3,730,000) lived in Xinjiang in 1941. Hoppe{{who|date=May 2023}} estimated that 4,334,000 people lived in Xinjiang in 1949.<ref name="Bellér-Hann2008 3">{{cite book|first=Ildikó|last=Bellér-Hann|title=Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880–1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF4lMj8skvoC&q=of+Xinjiang,+Toops+gives+an+overall+figure+and+the+province+population+in+1941+of+3,730,000,+of+which+2,984,000+were+Uyghur,+187,000+Han,+326,000+Kazakh,+92,000+Hui+and+65,000+Kirghiz.46+For+1949,+Hoppe+estimates+the+total+population+to+...&pg=PA64|year=2008|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-16675-2|pages=64–}}</ref> |
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===Kazakh exodus and tribal conflict === |
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A [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] chief named Khaisan was skinned alive and his heart cut out of his chest by the [[Oirats|Oirat]] Mongol [[Ja Lama]]. His and another Kazakh's skin were used as a religious implement.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lattimore |first1=Owen |title=Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia |last2=Nachukdorji |first2=Sh |date=1955 |publisher=Brill Archive |isbn= |location= |page=61 |chapter=THE PROBLEM OF PERSONALITY: SKETCHES OF TWO CAREERS |author-link= |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28wUAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Ja+Lama+ordered+the+breast+of+a+Kazak+leader+to+be+cut+open+and+the+heart+torn+out%22&pg=PA61}}</ref> The skins were found in Khaisan's [[yurt]] in Muunjaviin Ulaan on 8 February 1914 by [[Cossacks]] under Captain Bulatov.<ref>{{cite web |last=Croner |first=Don |date=June 5, 2009 |title=Russia - Astrakhan - Dambijantsan - Pestelya Street |url=http://www.doncroner.net/labels/Dambijantsan.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905043055/http://www.doncroner.net/labels/Dambijantsan.html |archive-date=5 September 2012 |access-date= |website=Don Croner |publisher= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Croner |first=Don |date=May 13, 2008 |title=Mongolia - Khovd Aimag - Ja Lama and the Siege of Khovd |url=http://worldwidewanders1.blogspot.com/2008/05/mongolia.html |access-date= |website= |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> A [[White Army|White Guard]] soldier's heart was eaten by the Mongol Choijon Lama. Mongol banners were sprinkled with blood from the hearts of Russian White Guard and Chinese, according to A. V. Burdukov.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kuzmin |first=Sergius L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tG32DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22and+took+the+skin+off+a+kazakh%3B+Choijon+Lama%22&pg=PA125 |title=Hidden Tibet: History of Independence and Occupation |date=2011 |publisher=Library of Tibetan Works and Archives |others=Dmitry Bennett |isbn=978-9380359472 |editor-last=Terentyev |editor-first=Andrey |location= |page=125 |author-link= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204133720/https://books.google.com/books?id=tG32DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22and+took+the+skin+off+a+kazakh%3B+Choijon+Lama%22&pg=PA125 |archive-date=4 February 2022 |access-date=25 January 2022 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Life of Ja Lama |url=http://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Life_of_Ja_Lama |access-date= |website=Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> |
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[[Owen Lattimore]] described Mongol Sandagdorjiyn Magsarjav (1877–1927) as "a strange, romantic and sometimes savage figure". Magsarjav had served under [[Roman von Ungern-Sternberg|Ungern-Sternberg]]. In Uriankhai, Kazakh bandits who were captured had their hearts cut out and sacrificed by Magsarjav.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dillon |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYSzDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Magsarjav+also+sacrificed+the+hearts+of+Kazakh+bandits+when+his+troops+were+operating+in+the%22&pg=PA55 |title=Mongolia: A Political History of the Land and its People |date=2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1788316958 |location= |page=55 |author-link=}}</ref> |
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In 1936, after [[Sheng Shicai]] expelled 30,000 Kazakhs from Xinjiang to Qinghai, [[Hui people|Hui Chinese]] led by General [[Ma Bufang]] massacred Kazakhs, until there were only 135 of them left.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= |first= |year=1951 |title=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2t5VAAAAYAAJ |journal=American Academy of Political and Social Science |language=en |publisher=A.L. Hummel |volume=277 |pages=152 |access-date=28 June 2010 |quote=A group of Kazakhs, originally numbering over 20000 people when expelled from Sinkiang by Sheng Shih-ts'ai in 1936, was reduced, after repeated massacres by their Chinese coreligionists under Ma Pu-fang, to a scattered 135 people.}}</ref> |
In 1936, after [[Sheng Shicai]] expelled 30,000 Kazakhs from Xinjiang to Qinghai, [[Hui people|Hui Chinese]] led by General [[Ma Bufang]] massacred Kazakhs, until there were only 135 of them left.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= |first= |year=1951 |title=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2t5VAAAAYAAJ |journal=American Academy of Political and Social Science |language=en |publisher=A.L. Hummel |volume=277 |pages=152 |access-date=28 June 2010 |quote=A group of Kazakhs, originally numbering over 20000 people when expelled from Sinkiang by Sheng Shih-ts'ai in 1936, was reduced, after repeated massacres by their Chinese coreligionists under Ma Pu-fang, to a scattered 135 people.}}</ref> |
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Being forced to migrate from Northern Xinjiang to the [[Kokonur|Kokonor]] plateau in [[Qinghai]], the nomadic Kazakhs resorted to plundering and robbing as they passed through Gansu and northern Xinjiang. In 1941, General Ma Bufang agreed to settle the Kazakhs in several pasturelands in an attempt to avoid further conflicts and quell aggressions. However, with the Kokonor plateau being home to Hui, Tibetans, and Kazakhs, the tribes continued to periodically engage in conflict with each other.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lin |first=Hsaio-ting |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=osn1WrRCelcC&dq=%22Between+1938+and+1941,+the+migration+of+the+Kazakh+nomadic+tribes+posed+one+of+the+most+problematic+issues+in+western+China,+and+Chongqing+needed+to+rely+on%22&pg=PA112 |title=Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49 |date=2011 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0774859882 |series=Contemporary Chinese Studies Series |location= |page= |quote=The Kazakhs were plundering and robbing on the Tibetan-Kokonor plateau in Qinghai as they came through Gansu and northern Xinjiang. There were over 7,000 of them between 1938-1941. On the Kokonor plateau, Hui (Tungans), Tibetans and Kazakhs continued to battle each other despite the Kazkah nomads being settled in demarcated pasturelands under Ma Bufang's watch in 1941. |author-link= |archive-date=August 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Lin2011p112">{{cite book |author=Hsaio-ting Lin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=osn1WrRCelcC&q=kazakhs+kansu+tibetans&pg=PA112 |title=Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49 |date=1 January 2011 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0-7748-5988-2 |pages=112–}}</ref> Hisao Kimura, a Japanese spy, cited a Tibetan Lama telling him that Kazakhs were enemies of the Tibetans: "This land, is very unsettled compared with Inner Mongolia. To the west, the Kazakhs persecute our people, and we are powerless to stop them."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kimura |first1=Hisao |last2=Berry |first2=Scott |editor-last=Berry |editor-first=Scott |others=Contributor Scott Berry|author-link= |date=1990 |title=Japanese Agent in Tibet: My Ten Years of Travel in Disguise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDqlbKQhFIQC&dq=%22To+the+west+the+Kazakhs+persecute+our+people,+and+we+are+powerless+to+stop+them%22&pg=PA58 |location= |edition=illustrated|publisher= Serindia Publications, Inc.|page= 58|isbn=0906026245}}</ref> The Kazakhs who migrated to Iran and Pakistan via India and Tibet moved to Turkey in the 1950s, with some becoming guest workers in Germany in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sheryazdanova |first=Kamilla |editor1-last= Banerjee|editor1-first=Santo |editor2-last=Erçetin |editor2-first= Şefika Şule |author-link= |date=2013 |title=Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012 |series=Springer Proceedings in Complexity |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZQJAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22this+hard+reduction+was+caused+by+both+decrease+of+migration+potential+of+the+community+and+by+change%22&pg=PA50|archive-url=https://vdoc.pub/documents/chaos-complexity-and-leadership-2012-6ai2hhncd8r0|archive-date=August 3, 2021|location= |edition=illustrated|publisher= Springer Science & Business Media|pages=50, 51 |isbn=978-9400773622|chapter=Chapter 8 The Role and Place of Migration and Diaspora's Policy in Bilateral Relations Between Kazakhstan and Germany}}</ref> |
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During his travels in Qinghai, [[Office of Strategic Services]] agent [[Leonard Clark (explorer)|Leonard Francis Clark]] reported that local Muslims told him about Kazakhs invading Tibet via the Nan Shan mountains in Xinjiang over the course of eight years in the 1940s. According to them, the Kazakhs were responsible for massacring 8,000 Buddhist Mongols during that period and claimed this was only possible due to the Chinese Nationalist Government disarming the Mongols. Further inquiries did not lead to more information and when Clark questioned missionaries in [[Lanzhou|Lanchow]], they only confirmed occasional raids from a few stray bands of Kazakhs over the last years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Leonard Francis |url=https://archive.org/details/marchingwind00clar/mode/2up |title=The Marching Wind |date=1954 |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls |isbn= |location= |page=317-318 |author-link=}}</ref> |
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From 1934 to 1938, Qumil Elisqan led about 18,000 Kerey Kazakhs to migrate to Gansu and Qinghai.<ref name="Benson1988">{{cite book|first=Linda|last=Benson|title=The Kazaks of China: Essays on an Ethnic Minority|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntpwAAAAMAAJ&q=%2818%29+If+one+goes+by+the+authors+or+the+documents+of+this+period,+the+number+of+Kazaks+who+went+to+Gansu+was+18+000.+...+%2821%29+While+we+were+living+there+during+these+2+years+the+people+who+were+resident+in+Qinghai+and+Gansu+were+Tibetans+.|year=1988|publisher=Ubsaliensis S. Academiae|isbn=978-91-554-2255-4|page=195}}</ref> Over the span of 2 years of battles, 5,000 Kazakhs were killed by Hui Muslim Chinese and Tibetans in Gansu. Led by Eliskhan Batur Elifuglu (1919–1943), the 13,000 survivors fled towards India in September 1940.<ref name=":0" /> |
From 1934 to 1938, Qumil Elisqan led about 18,000 Kerey Kazakhs to migrate to Gansu and Qinghai.<ref name="Benson1988">{{cite book|first=Linda|last=Benson|title=The Kazaks of China: Essays on an Ethnic Minority|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntpwAAAAMAAJ&q=%2818%29+If+one+goes+by+the+authors+or+the+documents+of+this+period,+the+number+of+Kazaks+who+went+to+Gansu+was+18+000.+...+%2821%29+While+we+were+living+there+during+these+2+years+the+people+who+were+resident+in+Qinghai+and+Gansu+were+Tibetans+.|year=1988|publisher=Ubsaliensis S. Academiae|isbn=978-91-554-2255-4|page=195}}</ref> Over the span of 2 years of battles, 5,000 Kazakhs were killed by Hui Muslim Chinese and Tibetans in Gansu. Led by Eliskhan Batur Elifuglu (1919–1943), the 13,000 survivors fled towards India in September 1940.<ref name=":0" /> |
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Tibetan troops robbed and killed Kazakhs 400 miles east of Lhasa at Chamdo when the Kazakhs were entering Tibet.<ref>{{cite book|title=Blackwood's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-LQAAAAMAAJ&q=%28I+subsequently+obtained+interesting+confirmation+of+the+Kazaks%27+sojourn+in+Kansu+;+for+one+day+the+Khan+Bahadur+brought+...+when+they+were+held+up+by+a+detachment+of+Tibetan+soldiers+and+officials,+who+killed+some+of+them+and+looted+much+of+...|year=1948|publisher=William Blackwood|page=407}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> To stop the migrants, a Tibetan cavalry numbering 1,000 attacked and fought the Kazakhs for three days in north Tibet, but ultimately lost.<ref name=":0" /> Afterwards, the Tibetan government sent the Kazakhs to the [[Ladakh]] region of [[Kashmir]] in British India.<ref name="Lin2011p231">{{cite book|author=Hsaio-ting Lin|title=Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, |
Tibetan troops robbed and killed Kazakhs 400 miles east of Lhasa at Chamdo when the Kazakhs were entering Tibet.<ref>{{cite book|title=Blackwood's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-LQAAAAMAAJ&q=%28I+subsequently+obtained+interesting+confirmation+of+the+Kazaks%27+sojourn+in+Kansu+;+for+one+day+the+Khan+Bahadur+brought+...+when+they+were+held+up+by+a+detachment+of+Tibetan+soldiers+and+officials,+who+killed+some+of+them+and+looted+much+of+...|year=1948|publisher=William Blackwood|page=407}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> To stop the migrants, a Tibetan cavalry numbering 1,000 attacked and fought the Kazakhs for three days in north Tibet, but ultimately lost.<ref name=":0" /> Afterwards, the Tibetan government sent the Kazakhs to the [[Ladakh]] region of [[Kashmir]] in British India.<ref name="Lin2011p231">{{cite book|author=Hsaio-ting Lin|title=Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=osn1WrRCelcC&q=kazakhs+kansu+tibetans&pg=PA231|date=1 January 2011|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-5988-2|pages=231–}}</ref> When they arrived at the Kashmir border, many Kazakhs died when the British ordered Indian guards to shoot. Once it was realized that they were civilians, the 3,039 surviving Kazakhs were let into India via Chuchul checkpoint in September 1941. Over these 3 years, 15,000 Kazakhs were killed.<ref name=":0" /> |
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When they were debriefed by British officials, the Kazakhs accused Tibetans and Tungans (Hui Chinese) of attacking them in Gansu, Qinghai, and Tibet.<ref>{{cite book |author=ZINDIE. I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zes7AQAAMAAJ&q=No.+1592.+JUNE+1948+VOL.+263.++THE+WANDERERS.++BY+ZINDIE.+I. |title=Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 236 |date=June 1948 |publisher= |isbn= |volume=263 |location= |pages=401–409 |chapter=THE WANDERERS. |number=1592}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEBuAAAAMAAJ&q=No.+1592.+JUNE+1948+VOL.+263.++THE+WANDERERS.++BY+ZINDIE.+I. |title=East Asian History, Issues 19-22 |date=2000 |publisher=Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University |others=Contributor Australian National University. Institute of Advanced Studies |isbn= |location= |page=82 |author-link=}}</ref> The Kazakhs said they were fleeing from the Soviets and the Soviet-backed warlord [[Sheng Shicai]] in Xinjiang. They accused Tibetan raiders of killing Kenzhebay, a relative of Elisqan, and accused the Hui-ruled Qinghai government of ignoring the murder. This incited them to move out of Qinghai towards India and Tibet. The Kazakhs accused Tibetan Qulïq people of being warlike and attacking the Kazakhs, and claimed that Kazakhs led by Elisqan had defeated them. The Kazakhs then accused a Hui Muslim (Dungan) called Fulušan of leading an assault with Mongol and Tibetan troops against the Kazakhs in Altïnšöke (Алтыншёке).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Benson |first1=Linda |editor-last1=Benson |editor-first1= Linda |editor-last2=Svanberg|editor-first2=Ingvar |others=Contributors Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg|date=1988|volume=5 of Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia multiethnica Upsaliensia |title=The Kazaks of China: Essays on an Ethnic Minority |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ntpwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22followed+Elisqan+one+by+one%22 |edition=illustrated|publisher = Ubsaliensis S. Academiae |pages=193, 195 |isbn=9155422551 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author-link= |date=2005 |title=Казахи Китая: очерки по этническому меньшинству |volume=3 of История Казахстана в западных источниках XII-XX в.в|others=Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jt1wAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Altinsoke%22 |location= |publisher=Санат |page=180 |isbn=9965664331|quote=... разгневанный Елисхан переселился подальше от Цинхая и разместился в местности, именуемой Алтыншёке (Altinsoke), расположенной за пределами Цинхая ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=1409769099702554625|user=mediyafiltr|title=Казахи Кашмира, 1953 год. Фото из журнала National Geographic.|date=29 June 2021}}</ref> |
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Upon crossing the border, however, the Kazakhs were unwelcome in Kashmir, and were confined to an open mountainous camp on the outskirts of [[Muzaffarabad]]. Due to poor living conditions and the monsoon rains, more Kazakhs and their livestock died daily. In April 1942, with the help of local Muslims, the Kazakhs were allowed to move to Gari Habibullah, and then Ternova village, where Indian Muslims hosted them. Nevertheless, additional Kazakhs died from illness, poor diet, and the warm climate. The remaining Kazakhs were granted residence permits, and with the help of regional [[nawab]]s, resettled elsewhere, with most eventually ending up in Pakistan after the [[Partition of India]] in 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Devlet |first=Nadir |date=2004 |title=Studies in the Politics, History and Culture of Turkic Peoples |url=https://www.academia.edu/4534001 |publisher=Yeditepe University |pages=191, 192 |format=PDF |publication-place=Istanbul |via=academia.edu}}</ref> |
Upon crossing the border, however, the Kazakhs were unwelcome in Kashmir, and were confined to an open mountainous camp on the outskirts of [[Muzaffarabad]]. Due to poor living conditions and the monsoon rains, more Kazakhs and their livestock died daily. In April 1942, with the help of local Muslims, the Kazakhs were allowed to move to Gari Habibullah, and then Ternova village, where Indian Muslims hosted them. Nevertheless, additional Kazakhs died from illness, poor diet, and the warm climate. The remaining Kazakhs were granted residence permits, and with the help of regional [[nawab]]s, resettled elsewhere, with most eventually ending up in Pakistan after the [[Partition of India]] in 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Devlet |first=Nadir |date=2004 |title=Studies in the Politics, History and Culture of Turkic Peoples |url=https://www.academia.edu/4534001 |publisher=Yeditepe University |pages=191, 192 |format=PDF |publication-place=Istanbul |via=academia.edu}}</ref> |
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==Distribution== |
==Distribution== |
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[[File:Kazakh autonomous prefectures and counties in China.png|right|thumb|350px|Kazakh autonomous prefectures and counties in China.]] |
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===By province=== |
===By province=== |
Total population | |
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1,462,588 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Xinjiang (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County, Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County, Mori Kazakh Autonomous County) | |
Languages | |
Kazakh, Russian, Mandarin | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam | |
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Turkic peoples |
Kazakhs in China | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中国哈萨克族 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中國哈薩克族 | ||||||
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Kazakh | جۇڭگو قازاقتارى Қытайда тұратын қазақтар | ||||||
Kazakhs are a Turkic ethnic group and one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. There is one Kazakh autonomous prefecture – IliinXinjiang – and three Kazakh autonomous counties – AksayinGansu, and Barkol and Mori in Xinjiang.
During the fall of the Dzungar Khanate in the mid-18th century, the Manchus massacred the native Dzungar Oirat MongolsofDzungaria (northern Xinjiang Province) in the Dzungar genocide, and afterwards colonized the depopulated area with immigrants from many parts of their empire. Among the peoples who moved into the depopulated Dzungaria were the Kazakhs from the Kazakh Khanates.[1]
In the 19th century, the advance of the Russian Empire troops pushed the Kazakhs to neighboring countries. Russian settlers on traditional Kazakh land drove many over the border to China, causing their population to increase in China.[2]
During the Russian Revolution, when Muslims faced conscription, Xinjiang again became a sanctuary for Kazakhs fleeing Russia.[3] During the 1920s, hundreds of thousands of Kazakh nomads moved from Soviet Kazakhstan to Xinjiang to escape Soviet persecution, famine,[note 1] violence, and forced sedentarization.[4] Kazakhs that moved to China fought for the Soviet Communist-backed Uyghur Second East Turkestan Republic in the Ili Rebellion (1944–1949).
Toops[who?] estimated that 326,000 Kazakhs, 65,000 Kirghiz, 92,000 Hui, 187,000 Han, and 2,984,000 Uyghur (totaling 3,730,000) lived in Xinjiang in 1941. Hoppe[who?] estimated that 4,334,000 people lived in Xinjiang in 1949.[5]
In 1936, after Sheng Shicai expelled 30,000 Kazakhs from Xinjiang to Qinghai, Hui Chinese led by General Ma Bufang massacred Kazakhs, until there were only 135 of them left.[6]
From 1934 to 1938, Qumil Elisqan led about 18,000 Kerey Kazakhs to migrate to Gansu and Qinghai.[7] Over the span of 2 years of battles, 5,000 Kazakhs were killed by Hui Muslim Chinese and Tibetans in Gansu. Led by Eliskhan Batur Elifuglu (1919–1943), the 13,000 survivors fled towards India in September 1940.[8]
Tibetan troops robbed and killed Kazakhs 400 miles east of Lhasa at Chamdo when the Kazakhs were entering Tibet.[9][8] To stop the migrants, a Tibetan cavalry numbering 1,000 attacked and fought the Kazakhs for three days in north Tibet, but ultimately lost.[8] Afterwards, the Tibetan government sent the Kazakhs to the Ladakh region of Kashmir in British India.[10] When they arrived at the Kashmir border, many Kazakhs died when the British ordered Indian guards to shoot. Once it was realized that they were civilians, the 3,039 surviving Kazakhs were let into India via Chuchul checkpoint in September 1941. Over these 3 years, 15,000 Kazakhs were killed.[8]
Upon crossing the border, however, the Kazakhs were unwelcome in Kashmir, and were confined to an open mountainous camp on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad. Due to poor living conditions and the monsoon rains, more Kazakhs and their livestock died daily. In April 1942, with the help of local Muslims, the Kazakhs were allowed to move to Gari Habibullah, and then Ternova village, where Indian Muslims hosted them. Nevertheless, additional Kazakhs died from illness, poor diet, and the warm climate. The remaining Kazakhs were granted residence permits, and with the help of regional nawabs, resettled elsewhere, with most eventually ending up in Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947.[8]
(Only includes counties or county-equivalents containing >1% of county population.)
Сounty/City | % Kazakh | Kazakh pop | Total pop |
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Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region | 6.74 | 1,245,023 | 18,459,511 |
Aksay Kazakh autonomous county | 30.5 | 2,712 | 8,891 |
Ürümqi city | 2.34 | 48,772 | 2,081,834 |
Tianshan district | 1.77 | 8,354 | 471,432 |
Saybag district | 1.27 | 6,135 | 482,235 |
Xinshi district | 1.06 | 4,005 | 379,220 |
Dongshan district | 1.96 | 1,979 | 100,796 |
Ürümqi county | 8.00 | 26,278 | 328,536 |
Karamay city | 3.67 | 9,919 | 270,232 |
Dushanzi district | 4.24 | 2,150 | 50,732 |
Karamay district | 3.49 | 5,079 | 145,452 |
Baijiantan district | 3.35 | 2,151 | 64,297 |
Urko district | 5.53 | 539 | 9,751 |
Hami city | 8.76 | 43,104 | 492,096 |
Yizhou district | 2.71 | 10,546 | 388,714 |
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county | 34.01 | 29,236 | 85,964 |
Yiwu county | 19.07 | 3,322 | 17,418 |
Changji Hui autonomous prefecture | 7.98 | 119,942 | 1,503,097 |
Changji city | 4.37 | 16,919 | 387,169 |
Fukang city | 7.83 | 11,984 | 152,965 |
Midong district | 1.94 | 3,515 | 180,952 |
Hutubi county | 10.03 | 21,118 | 210,643 |
Manas county | 9.62 | 16,410 | 170,533 |
Qitai county | 10.07 | 20,629 | 204,796 |
Jimsar county | 8.06 | 9,501 | 117,867 |
Mori Kazakh autonomous county | 25.41 | 19,866 | 78,172 |
Bortala Mongol autonomous prefecture | 9.14 | 38,744 | 424,040 |
Bole city | 7.10 | 15,955 | 224,869 |
Jinghe county | 8.27 | 11,048 | 133,530 |
Wenquan county | 17.89 | 11,741 | 65,641 |
Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture | 1.78 | 5,077 | 285,299 |
Kuytun city | 1.78 | 5,077 | 285,299 |
Ili prefecture direct-controlled territories | 22.55 | 469,634 | 2,082,577 |
Ghulja city | 4.81 | 17,205 | 357,519 |
Ghulja county | 10.30 | 39,745 | 385,829 |
Qapqal Xibe autonomous county | 20.00 | 32,363 | 161,834 |
Huocheng county | 7.96 | 26,519 | 333,013 |
Gongliu county | 29.69 | 45,450 | 153,100 |
Xinyuan county | 43.43 | 117,195 | 269,842 |
Zhaosu county | 48.43 | 70,242 | 145,027 |
Tekes county | 42.25 | 56,571 | 133,900 |
Nilka county | 45.15 | 64,344 | 142,513 |
Tacheng prefecture | 24.21 | 216,020 | 892,397 |
Tacheng city | 15.51 | 23,144 | 149,210 |
Usu city | 9.93 | 18,907 | 190,359 |
Emin county | 33.42 | 59,586 | 178,309 |
Shawan county | 16.23 | 30,621 | 188,715 |
Toli county | 68.98 | 55,102 | 79,882 |
Yumin county | 32.42 | 15,609 | 48,147 |
Hoboksar Mongol autonomous county | 22.59 | 13,051 | 57,775 |
Altay prefecture | 51.38 | 288,612 | 561,667 |
Altay city | 36.80 | 65,693 | 178,510 |
Burqin county | 57.31 | 35,324 | 61,633 |
Koktokay county | 69.68 | 56,433 | 80,986 |
Burultokay county | 31.86 | 24,793 | 77,830 |
Kaba county | 59.79 | 43,889 | 73,403 |
Qinggil county | 75.61 | 40,709 | 53,843 |
Jiminay county | 61.39 | 21,771 | 35,462 |
Some Kazakhs are nomadic herders and raise sheep, goats, cattle, and horses. These nomadic Kazakhs migrate seasonally in search of pasture for their animals. During the summer the Kazakhs live in yurts, while in winter they settle and live in modest houses made of adobe or cement blocks. Others live in urban areas and tend to be highly educated and hold much influence in integrated communities. The Islam practiced by the Kazakhs in China contains many elements of shamanism, ancestor worship, and other traditional beliefs and practices.[11]
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