Tang Kesan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tang.

Tang Kesan (Chinese: 唐柯三; pinyin: Táng Kēsān) was a Chinese Muslim. In Xikang province during the Sino-Tibetan War Tang Kesan represented the Kuomintang.^[1]

Career

Tang was a Muslim from Shandong province, and he promoted Muslim education. He worked with Muslim General Bai Chongxi.^[2][3] Tang directed the Muslim Chengda School, and was friends with Muslim General Ma Fuxiang.^[4]

Tang negotiated a ceasefire with the Tibetans in 1932.^[5][6][7]

Ma Fuxiang, as head of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, sent a telegraph to Tang Kesan ordering him to breach the agreement with Tibet, because he was concerned that political rivals in Nanjing were using the incident.^[8]

The President of the education organization Chinese Islamic National Salvation Federation was General Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi) and the vice president was Tang Kesan (Tang Ko-san).^[9]

References

1. Hanzhang Ya; Ya Hanzhang (1991). The biographies of the Dalai Lamas. Foreign Languages Press. pp. 352, 355. ISBN 0-8351-2266-2. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
2. Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Hisao Komatsu; Yasushi Kosugi (2006). Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication. Taylor & Francis. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-415-36835-3. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
3. Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Hisao Komatsu; Yasushi Kosugi (2006). Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication. Taylor & Francis. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-415-36835-3. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
4. Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Hisao Komatsu; Yasushi Kosugi (2006). Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication. Taylor & Francis. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-415-36835-3. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
5. Jiawei Wang, Nimajianzan (1997). The historical status of China's Tibet. 五洲传播出版社. p. 150. ISBN 7-80113-304-8. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
6. Fabienne Jagou; École française d'Extrême-Orient (2004). Le 9e Panchen Lama (1883-1937): enjeu des relations sino-tibétaines. École française d'Extrême-Orient. p. 233. ISBN 2-85539-632-8. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
7. 中国西藏的历史地位德. 五洲传播出版社. 2003. p. 169. ISBN 7-5085-0257-4. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
8. Oriental Society of Australia (2000). The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, Volumes 31-34. Oriental Society of Australia. p. 34. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
9. "The China Monthly, Volumes 3-4" 1941, p. 13.