Bouyei people
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The Bouyei are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the province of Guizhou in Southern China. Numbering 3.5 million, they are the 10th largest of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized
A Bouyei woman in front of her house in China
Bouyei minority Shitou village, West Guizhou
Xingyi, the seat of Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou
Wang Nangxian
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Wang Nangxian was a female Chinese leader of the anti-Manchu White Lotus Rebellion along with Wang Cong'er during the reign of the Qing dynasty. Another female member of the rebellion along with Wang
Bouyei people
…from then on, the land was in the hands of a few landowners, which caused the population to revolt. During the Nanlong Rebellion (南笼起义) of 1797 led by Wang Nangxian, the Bouyei underwent a strong repression that caused many of them to emigrate to Vietnam. The 1911 Xinhai Revolution ended Qing rule, and from 1912…
Capture of Wang Nangxian by the Qing Army (1797)