__NOTOC__ Ma Dunjing (

Xiao'erjing Xiao'erjing or Xiao'erjin or Xiaor jin or in its shortened form, Xiaojing, literally meaning "children's script" or "minor script" (cf. "original script" referring to the original Perso-Arabic script; zh, s=本经, t=本經, p=Běnjīng, Xiao ...

: , ; 2 January 1910 – 3 September 2003) was a prominent Chinese general of the Republic of China era and the son of General

Ma Hongkui Ma Hongkui (, Xiao'erjing: ; March 14, 1892 – January 14, 1970) was a prominent warlord in China during the Republic of China era, ruling the province of Ningxia. His rank was lieutenant general. His courtesy name was Shao-yun (少雲 ...

, who ruled the northwestern province of

Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...

. Born to a

Hui The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

family in 1910 in Gansu, he served as an official in his father's

government. During World War II, he was a General in the National Revolutionary Army. He was a member of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

, and fought against the Chinese communist party during the Ningxia Campaign. He fled to

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

in 1949, then to

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in the U.S. with his father in 1950. He was appointed to the Recovery of the Mainland Research Commission in 1954 and he died in the U.S. in 2003. His older brother was Ma Dunhou (Ma Tun-hou, misspelled as Ma Tung-hou) 馬敦厚 and his younger brother was Ma Dunren (Ma Tun-jen) 馬敦仁.甘、寧、青三馬家族世系簡表
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马敦静 (1910–2003)

* Hutchings, Graham. Modern China. First. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

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* 民国军阀派系谈 (The Republic of China warlord cliques discussed ) http://www.2499cn.com/junfamulu.htm 1910 births 2003 deaths American people of Chinese descent American people of Hui descent Hui people Republic of China warlords from Gansu Chinese Muslim generals National Revolutionary Army generals from Gansu Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan Chinese Nationalist military figures Military personnel of the Republic of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War People of the Chinese Civil War People from Linxia Chinese Civil War refugees Taiwanese people from Gansu American Muslims Taiwanese Muslims {{china-mil-bio-stub

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