Yangzhou massacre AD 760

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In the Yangzhou massacre, Chinese rebels under Tian Shengong engaged in a slaughter of foreign Arab and Persian merchants in 760 AD during the Tang dynasty in Yangzhou.
The foreign merchants and traders incurred xenophobic feelings among the Chinese population, and they were scapegoated as the Tang dynasty declined.
The massacre took place during the An Shi Rebellion. Arab and Persian merchants in the city were massacred in the thousands when Tian Shengong's (T'ien Shen-kung) 田神功 rebel soldiers entered the city. The merchants were targeted for being foreign and for their wealth.

 

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Guangzhou massacre

An earlier Yangzhou massacre (760) took place in which Chinese rebels massacred the wealthy Arab and Persian merchant community.

Arab and Persian pirates raided and looted warehouses in Guangzhou (known to them as Khanfu or Sin-Kalan) in AD 758, according to a local Guangzhou government report on October 30, 758, which corresponded to the day of Guisi (癸巳) of the ninth lunar month in the first year of the Qianyuan era of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty.

Huang Chao revolted against the declining Tang dynasty after failing the Imperial Examination many times. He rebelled in 875 and led his army across China to Guangzhou in Lingnan. Guangzhou was called "Khanfu" by the Arabs, and another name for Guangzhou is Canton.

The Chinese rebels led by Huang Chao slaughtered Jews, Muslim Arabs, Muslim Persians, Zoroastrians (a.k.a. Parsees or Mazdaists) and Christians when they seized and conquered, according to Arab writer Abu Zayd Hasan As-Sirafi. Huang Chao's army was in Guangzhou during 878–879. Mulberry groves were also ruined by Huang's army. Only the Arabic source of Abu Zaid mentions the massacre; Chinese sources of the Tang dynasty history say nothing of the massacre and only mention Huang Chao occupying Guangzhou and retreating after disease struck his army.

The main motivation for the killings is generally considered to be that that the victims were foreign and wealthy. However, the Student Rebellion could have been against professors, teachers, class, examinations, teaching, and against capitalist wealth.

The death toll could have ranged from 120,000 to 200,000 foreigners.

Foreigners have at different periods settled in China; but after remaining for a time, they have been massacred. For instance, Mohammedans and others settled at Canton in the ninth century; and in 889, it is said that 120,000 foreign settlers were massacred.
— the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, "The Baptist missionary magazine" (1869)

 

[mojito]

Yes. Racist Hokkiens and Cantonese troublemakers always up to no good eh?

 

[zeroo]

Chinks are the most racist ppl in the world.

 

[zeroo]

This is why we have GRC system. To make sure opportunistic politicians playing politics along racial lines will fail.

 

[syed putra]

Chinks are the most racist ppl in the world.

And murderous.

 

[voucher]

And murderous.

Just asking for a screw in your backside.

 

[eatshitndie]

sam's ancestral family survived the massacre. :o

 

[Ambulance]

halo lee deh tiong kok seng lee zho jin dua si boh

 

[Agoraphobic]

Didn't they cabut to Peesai? Were they muslims or Zoroastrians?

Cheers!

sam's ancestral family survived the massacre. :o

 

[eatshitndie]

Didn't they cabut to Peesai? Were they muslims or Zoroastrians?

Cheers!

they became buddhist and joined the burmese junta.

 

[zeroo]

 

[Ambulance]

halo deh ho boh chio gwa mai jit deh jit deh jin pai tia si boh

[video=youtube;oPtakxPIT8c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPtakxPIT8c[/video]

 

[Force 136]

Arabs started the fighting when they burned the Chinese warehouses.........

 

[syed putra]

This is just like the Malay people riot and kill the richer Chinese. So looks like its normal for people to behave this way if there is a huge wealth gap.