Sa Zhenbing
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Sa Zhenbing was a prominent Chinese admiral of the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic. He lived through four governments in China, and had been appointed to various senior naval and political of
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Sa Zhenbing
Sa Zhenbing (Who's Who in China 3rd ed., 1925)
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The Semu were the name of a political class in Imperial China, made up of foreign experts who came to serve the political systems of Imperial China. The Semu were not a self-defined ethnic group unto
Sa Zhenbing
…Communist) in China, and had been appointed to various senior naval and political offices. Sa Zhenbing was born in Fuzhou, Fujian province, to a Semu family of Qarluk origin who had lived in the area since the late Yuan dynasty. Between 1869 and 1872 he attended the Fuzhou Naval Academy; Deng Shichang…
Ma Hajji, a Song dynasty official in Yunnan (a descendant of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar), and his young son Ma He, future admiral Zheng He, as imagined by a modern Kunyang sculptor.