The Japanese maybe want another smackdown from the Hui and Salar
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The Salar General Han Youwen wrote about defending China's integrity in Xinjiang
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"The Marching Wind" by Leonard Francis Clark talks about Salars who served in Ma Bufang's army during World War 2. One of them killed alot of Japanese and fought tibetan separatists,
If Salars knew better they wouldn't have fought along side the Chinese. Just look how they are treated today. They won't make the same mistake.
Says someone who knows nothing about China. There is no Salar separatist movement. They view themselves as citizens of China The Salars are the majority in Xunhua county (by the way, they are descnded from immigrants from Samarkand. Its built into their identity and they are not greedy liars so they don't claim they were native to Xunhua for thousands of years.)
Salara are semi sinicized. Their clan chiefs (Tusi) voluntarily submitted to China during the Ming dynasty when they moved to China from Central Asia. They mixed heavily with Chinese and Tibetans so they have Chinese blood to. Their language is influenced by Chinese and Tibetan, many Chinese loanwords are in Salar. They use both Chinese first and last names with an additional (Arabic) Muslim name instead of Turkic names. The last names Han and Ma are frequent among them.
Many Salars served in the Chinese army, ever since they arrrived during the Ming, then the Qing and to the present day.
The Moslem World - Google Books
Han Youwen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The only conflict they ever had was sectarian. The Salars used to be all Hanafi Sunni but some converted to Jahriyya Sufism. In 1781 the jahriyya Sufi cult rebelled and many Salar belonged to this sect but Khufiyya Sufis and ordinary Sunnis helped the Qing government crush the Jahriyya Sufis. The Jahriyya .sufis believed their cult leader was like a prophet and infallible so they obeyed all his orders and offen attacked other Muslim who belonged to different sects.
Ever since the Jahriyya were crushed there was no Jahriyya uprising anymore. And the Salars never has a pan turkic or turkic nationalist movement or uprising.
The Salars are loyal citizens of China and don't hold separatist views. Many Salars were loyal to the Republic of China (Taiwan) during civil war and now they are apolitical. Han Youwen defected to the Communists and became the most prominent Salar military officer and member of Xinjiang's government, serving as a vice chairman.
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Also Chinese government official publications on Salar language and history deliberately emphasize the most Turkic aspects, and depict the most Turkic dialect of their language as possible to show the aspect of their culture least affected by Chinese and Tibetan culture and intermarriage with Chinese and Tibetans, going so far as to paint a misleading picture. And you claim they are treated like what?
Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China - Google Books
Salar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes. Phonology - Arienne M. Dwyer - Google Books
The identity of an exile from their homeland (central asia) is ingrained in the Salar as is their loyalty to being citizens to China. They don't claim to be natives but are given their rights where they reside. They are speaking their own language and practicing their culture and religion and don't preach separatism.