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In 1912, the Republic of China replaced the Qing Dynasty. The Qing governor of Xinjiang, Yuan Dahua, acceded to the Republic of China in March of the same year. Following insurgencies against Governor Yang Zengxin in the early 1930s, a rebellion in Kashgar led to the establishment of the First East Turkistan Republic in 1933. However, it was a short-lived establishment, as Xinjiang was eventually brought under the control of a Han Chinese warlord by the name of Sheng Shicai. Sheng Shicai ruled Xinjiang for the next decade. A Second East Turkistan Republic existed from 1944-1949 in what is now the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in norhtern Xinjiang.
The PLA. Photo courtesy of People's Daily Online.
However, the Second East Turkistan Republic came to an end when the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) entered Xinjiang in 1949. |
