Lintan County

Lintan County
临潭县 · བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།
Bazê
Fort in Liushun town
Fort in Liushun town
Lintan (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) within Gansu (grey)
Lintan (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) within Gansu (grey)
Lintan is located in Gansu
Lintan
Lintan
Location of the seat in Gansu
Lintan is located in China
Lintan
Lintan
Lintan (China)
Coordinates: 34°42′N 103°40′E / 34.700°N 103.667°E / 34.700; 103.667
CountryChina
ProvinceGansu
Autonomous prefectureGannan
County seatChengguan (Zhacêr)
Area
 • Total1,557.68 km2 (601.42 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total127,387
 • Density82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
747500
Websitewww.lintan.gov.cn
Lintan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese临潭县
Traditional Chinese臨潭縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLíntán Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanལིན་ཐན་རྫོང་། or བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་། or བཱ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylielin than rdzong or ba tse rdzong or bā tse rdzong
Tibetan PinyinLintan Zong or Bazê Zong

Lintan County (Chinese: 临潭县, Tibetan: བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།) is an administrative district in Gansu, China. It is one of 58 counties of Gansu. It is part of the Gannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747500, and in 1999 its population was 148,722 people.

Tibetans of Taozhou helped crush the Muslim rebels in the Dungan revolt (1895–1896) like they did in the 1781 Jahriyya revolt. The loyalist Muslims of Táozhōu also fight against the Muslim rebels and Muslim rebel leader Ma Yonglin's entire family was executed.[2][3]

Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi's Muslim Xidaotang repulsed and defeated Bai Lang's bandit forces, who looted the city of Táozhōu but Muslim general Ma Anliang slaughtered Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi and his family after the war.[4] The bandits were notable for anti-Muslim sentiment, massacring thousands of Muslims at Taozhou. Muslim Khufiyya Sufi general Ma Anliang was only concerned with defending Lanzhou and his own home base in Hezhou (Linxia) in central Gansu where his followers lived and not the rival Xidaotang sect Muslims under Muslim leader Ma Qixi in southern Gansu's minor towns like Taozhou so he let Bai Lang ravage Taozhou and other towns in southern Gansu while passively defending Lanzhou and Hezhou. The North China Herald and Reginald Farrer accused Ma Anliang of betraying his fellow Muslims by letting them get slaighterd at Taozhou. Ma Anliang then arrested Ma Qixi after falsely accusing him of striking a deal with Bai Lang and had Ma Qixi and his family slaughtered.[5]

  1. ^ "甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报" (in Chinese). Government of Gannan Prefecture. 27 May 2021.
  2. ^ LIPMAN, JONATHAN N. (1997). "4 / Strategies of Resistance Integration by Violence". Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97644-6.
  3. ^ Oidtmann, Max (2005). "History, Hides, and the Environment of a Town on the Gansu Frontier". pp. 1–32.
  4. ^ Dru C. Gladney (1996). Muslim Chinese: ethnic nationalism in the People's Republic. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard Univ Asia Center. p. 58. ISBN 0-674-59497-5. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  5. ^ Jonathan Neaman Lipman (2004). Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 194. ISBN 0-295-97644-6. Retrieved 28 June 2010.