Dongxiang Autonomous County

Dongxiang Autonomous County
Dongxiang Autonomous County ; 东乡族自治县
	Autonomous county
	The northwestern edge of Dongxiang Autonomous County (Hetan Township) seen from across the Daxia River from the neighboring Linxia County
	Dongxiang in Linxia
	Linxia in Gansu
	Coordinates: 35°39′50″N 103°23′21″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Gansu
Autonomous prefecture	Linxia
Area
• Total	1,510 km2 (580 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	314,700
• Density	210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	731400

Dongxiang Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 东乡族自治县; traditional Chinese: 東鄉族自治縣; pinyin: Dōngxiāngzú Zìzhìxiàn; Santa: Dunxianzu Zizhixien) is an autonomous county in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, province of Gansu of the People's Republic of China. With ethnic minority of the Dongxiang.

Administrative divisions

Dongxiang Autonomous County is divided to 8 towns and 16 townships.[1]

Towns

Suonan (锁南镇)
Daban (达板镇)
Hetan (河滩镇)
Naleisi (那勒寺镇)

Tangwang (唐汪镇)
Guoyuan (果园镇)
Wangji (汪集镇)
Longquan (龙泉镇)

Townships

Chuntai Township(春台乡)
Liushu Township(柳树乡)
Dongyuan Township(东塬乡)
Pingzhuang Township(坪庄乡)
Baihe Township(百和乡)
Guanbu Township(关卜乡)
Zhaojiaxiang Township(赵家乡)
Wujia Township(五家乡)

Yanling Township(沿岭乡)
Fengshan Township(风山乡)
Chejiawan Township(车家湾乡)
Gaoshan Township(高山乡)
Dashu Township(大树乡)
Beiling Township(北岭乡)
Kaolei Township(考勒乡)
Dongling Township(董岭乡)

Tangwangchuan

Dongxiang Autonomous County contains many towns and one of them is Tangwangchuan Town.[2][3]

A town called Tangwangchuan (唐汪川) in Dongxiang Autonomous County had a multi ethnic populace, the Tang (唐) and Wang (汪) families being the two major families. The Tang and Wang families were originally of non-Muslim Han Chinese extraction, but by the 1900s some branches of the families became Muslim by "intermarriage or conversion" while other branches of the families remained non-Muslim.[4]

People in the area have changed their ethnicity by marrying members of other groups or converting to their religion. The Tang and Wang families are now composed of all three different ethnic groups, with Han Chinese, Hui and Dongxiang people. The Hui and Dongxiang are Muslims.[5]

Tangwangchuan and Hanjiaji were notable for being the lone towns with a multi ethnic community, with both non-Muslims and Muslims.[6]

The Kuomintang official Ma Hetian visited Tangwangchuan and met an "elderly local literatus from the Tang clan" when he was on his inspection tour of Gansu and Qinghai.[7]

In the local music of Hezhou/Linxia, a Han and Hui song called "Hezhou" contains the verse "tang wang chuan you yi ge" (唐汪川有一个) in its third Ling.[8]

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Transport

China National Highway 213

Sources

"统计用区划代码 www.stats.gov.cn" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (1999). Ahmad Hasan Dani; Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (eds.). History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 325. ISBN 81-208-1407-X. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (1999). Ahmad Hasan Dani; Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (eds.). History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 320. ISBN 81-208-1407-X. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
Gail Hershatter (1996). Gail Hershatter (ed.). Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain (illustrated ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-8047-2509-8. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
M.E. Sharpe, Inc, International Arts and Sciences Press (2007). Chinese sociology and anthropology. M.E. Sharpe. p. 42. Retrieved 17 July 2011.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)(Original from the University of Virginia )
Jonathan Neaman Lipman (1997). Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China (illustrated ed.). University of Washington Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-295-97644-6. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
University of Cambridge. Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (2002). Inner Asia, Volume 4, Issues 1-2. The White Horse Press for the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge. p. 119. Retrieved 17 July 2011.(Original from the University of Michigan)
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[1] "统计用区划代码 www.stats.gov.cn" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-26.

[2] Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (1999). Ahmad Hasan Dani; Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (eds.). History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 325. ISBN 81-208-1407-X. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

[3] Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (1999). Ahmad Hasan Dani; Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson (eds.). History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 320. ISBN 81-208-1407-X. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

[4] Gail Hershatter (1996). Gail Hershatter (ed.). Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain (illustrated ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-8047-2509-8. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

[5] M.E. Sharpe, Inc, International Arts and Sciences Press (2007). Chinese sociology and anthropology. M.E. Sharpe. p. 42. Retrieved 17 July 2011.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)(Original from the University of Virginia )

[6] Jonathan Neaman Lipman (1997). Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China (illustrated ed.). University of Washington Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-295-97644-6. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

[7] University of Cambridge. Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (2002). Inner Asia, Volume 4, Issues 1-2. The White Horse Press for the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge. p. 119. Retrieved 17 July 2011.(Original from the University of Michigan)

[8] European Foundation for Chinese Music Research (1999). Journal of the CHIME Foundation, Issues 12-13. European Foundation for Chinese Music Research. p. 80. Retrieved 17 July 2011.(Original from the University of Michigan)

[9] Martin Hartmann (1921). Zur Geschichte des Islam in China. Volume 10 of Quellen und Forschungen zur Erd- und Kulturkunde. W. Heims. p. 14. Retrieved 17 July 2011.(Original from the University of Michigan)