Shadian

The street district Shadian沙 甸 街道, until September 2019 the large community of Shadian 沙 甸 镇, is a place in the city of Gejiu ( Chinese  个旧 市 , Pinyin Gèjiù Shì ), an independent city in the autonomous district of Honghe der Hani and Yi in the south of the Chinese province of Yunnan . It is located in the Yunnan Province in the southwest of the country, about 180 kilometers south of the provincial capital Kunming . It is the largest Hui settlement in Gejiu. The place has an area of ​​15.4 square kilometers and has 12,900 inhabitants (2006).

Dome of the Great Mosque of Shadian

Shadian incident

The place is known from the so-called Shadian Incident (沙 甸 事件) towards the end of the Cultural Revolution with many dead. The government then provided a lot of money for a Great Mosque (沙 甸 大 清真寺), one of the largest mosques in the People's Republic of China .

Personalities

• Ma Jian (1906–1978), university professor and Koran translator

See also

• Shadian Massacre (French)

literature

• Dru C. Gladney: Muslim Chinese - Ethnic Nationalism in the People`s Republic. Second Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs, Volume 149). 1996 (Section: The Shadian Incident, pp. 137–140) ( partial online view )

Web links

• xzqh.org: Info Page - Chinese
• 沙 甸 大 清真寺
• Grand Mosque of Shadian
• 沙 甸 大 清真寺
• Visit to Islamic Society & History of China (Shadian, Yunnan Province in China) (film)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mca.gov.cn: 2019 年 中华人民共和国 县 以下 行政 区划 变更 情况 (Changes in the administrative areas below the county level in the People's Republic of China in 2019) - accessed on December 6, 2019
2. ↑ xzqh.org (info page) - accessed December 6, 2019
3. ↑ cf. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer: Mao Zedong. ›There will be a fight‹: a biography. 2017 ( partial online view )
4. ↑ photo

Coordinates: 23 ° 19 ′  N , 103 ° 8 ′  E