Bai Lang Rebellion

Bai Lang Rebellion
Date1911–1914
Location
Result Defeat of Bai Lang and his bandit army
Belligerents

Bai Lang's army


Allies:
Commanders and leaders
Bai Lang
Units involved
Various bandit groups[4]
Strength
12,000[4] Bai Lang's army: c. 5,000 (early 1913)[1]
Casualties and losses
Thousands of civilian casualties

The Bai Lang Rebellion was a Chinese "bandit" rebellion lasting from mid 1913 to late 1914. Launched against the Republican government of Yuan Shikai, the rebellion was led by Bai Lang. His rebel army was an eclectic mix of anti-Yuan Shikai troops and rebels, bandit groups and Gelaohui (secret society) members. As a unit, they were allied to southern Guangdong based revolutionaries.

Naqshbandi Khufiyya Sufi Muslim general Ma Anliang took advantage of the war to allow the massacre of the rival Muslim Xidaotang sect and then to execute the Muslim leader of the Xidaotang, Ma Qixi and his family.

  1. ^ a b c Billingsley (1988), p. 57.
  2. ^ Billingsley (1988), pp. 56, 57, 59.
  3. ^ Billingsley (1988), pp. 57, 59.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Sheridan (1966), p. 51.
  5. ^ Ch'en (1972), p. 160.