Yangzhou massacre (760)

In the Yangzhou massacre, Chinese forces under Tian Shengong killed thousands of foreign merchants in Yangzhou in 760 AD during the Tang dynasty.

Yangzhou massacre
LocationYangzhou
Date760
TargetArabs and Persians
DeathsThousands
PerpetratorsForces under Tian Shengong

Yangzhou, at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, was a center of commerce, finance and industry, and one of the wealthiest cities in Tang China, with a large population of foreign merchants.[1] In 760, Deng Jingshan (鄧景山), the governor of Huainan, recruited a general Tian Shengong (田神功) to suppress a revolt in the city started by an official called Liu Zhan (劉展). When Tian's forces arrived, they robbed the inhabitants, killing thousands of Arab and Persian merchants.[2] Tian then travelled to the Tang capital, Chang'an, and presented looted gold and silver to the emperor.[3]

In the Guangzhou massacre in 879, 120,000 Muslim Arabs, Persians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians were killed by the Chinese rebel leader Huang Chao.[4]

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References
  1. Schafer, Edward H. (1963). The golden peaches of Samarkand: a study of T'ang exotics. University of California Press. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-0-520-05462-2.
  2. Wan, Lei (2017). The earliest Muslim communities in China. Qiraat. Vol. 8. Riyadh: King Faisal Center for research and Islamic Studies. p. 11. ISBN 978-603-8206-39-3.
  3. Qi, Dongfang (2010). "Gold and Silver Wares on the Belitung Shipwreck" (PDF). In Krahl, Regina; Guy, John; Wilson, J. Keith; Raby, Julian (eds.). Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. pp. 221–227. ISBN 978-1-58834-305-5.
  4. Gernet, Jacques (1996). A History of Chinese Civilization (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-49781-7.

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