Batang uprising

Batang uprising
Date 1905[1] Location Kham's Chiefdom of Batang Chiefdom of Litang (present day Sichuan, Batang County;, Yunnan, Dêqên; Weixi and Gongshan County) Result Qing assertion of authority up to 1911
Belligerents
Chiefdom of Batang Chiefdom of Litang Batang Monastery Samphel Monastery	Qing dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Tashi Gyaltsen  Drakpa Gyaltsen  Sonam Dradul † Atra Khenpo Phurjung Tawa	Feng Quan † Zhao Erfeng General Wu Yi-chung † General Ma Weiqi (Ma Wei-ch'i)[2] Commandant in Chief Li Chia-jui
Strength
Tibetan Khampa tribesmen, Tibetan Chieftain defectors from Qing army	Qing military Green Standard Army[citation needed] New Army[citation needed] Eight Banners[citation needed]
Casualties and losses
Unknown Khampa casualties	Feng Quan, unknown Qing casualties

The Batang uprising (Chinese: 巴塘事變) was an uprising by the Khampas of Kham against the assertion of authority by Qing China.

The uprising began as an opposition to the new policies of land reclamation and limits of the monastic community. The policies were implemented by Feng Quan, Qing's assistant amban to Tibet, stationed in Chamdo (in western Kham).^[3][a] Feng Quan was murdered in the uprising and ^[3] four French Catholic missionaries, perceived as Qing allies, fell victim to mobs led by lamas. One was killed immediately (his remains were never found), another was tortured for twelve days before he was executed, while the other two were pursued for three months and beheaded upon capture.^[3] Ten Catholic churches were burned down and a mass of locals that had converted to Catholicism were killed.^[3] Under French pressure to protect missionaries and domestic pressure to stop the threat of the British invading from the west frontier,^[4] Feng Quan's successor Zhao Erfeng led a bloody punitive campaign to quell the uprising in 1906. Zhao brought political, economic, and cultural reform to Batang and the rest of Kham.^[4] Direct rule of Batang under Qing was established by Zhao. With the 1911 Chinese Revolution, Zhao was murdered in turn and the status quo ante was reestablished.

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