Ma Fuxiang

It was said by American scholar Louis M. J. Schram that Ma Fuxiang himself was of Sant'a descent, who had assimilated into the Hui community.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sy2FOZy0kTsC&pg=PA23|title=The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier: Their Origin, History, and Social Organization|first=Louis M. J.|last=Schram|year=2006|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|page=23|isbn=1-4286-5932-3}} The Santa (San-t'a) are known as the Dongxiang people. They are Mongol Muslims.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn4iv_RJv8oC&pg=PA142|title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology|first=Pamela Kyle|last=Crossley|year=2002|publisher=University of California Press|page=142|isbn=0-520-23424-3}}

Schram reported that Ma Fuxiang's Sant'an ancestors belonged to a group of Mongols who converted to Islam under threat of death during the Qianlong Emperor's reign (1736–1796), since the area where they lived, around Hezhou, was dominated by Muslim Salar rebels at the time.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sy2FOZy0kTsC&pg=PA23|title=The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier: Their Origin, History, and Social Organization|first=Louis M. J.|last=Schram|year=2006|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|page=57|isbn=1-4286-5932-3}} Another separate group of Mongol Muslims existed in Hezhou's east. Their leaders claimed a lineage from the Yuan dynasty royal family.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sy2FOZy0kTsC&pg=PA57|title=The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier: Their Origin, History, and Social Organization|first=Louis M. J.|last=Schram|year=2006|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|page=57|isbn=1-4286-5932-3}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6kdAQAAIAAJ|title=The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan frontier, Volume 1|first=Louis|last=Schram|year=1961|publisher=American Philosophical Society|page=58}}

However, no other source mentions this. He is just said to be a Hui with no mention of San-t'a/Dongxiang Mongol ancestors.

Ma Fuxiang was the son of Ma Qianling.{{cite book|title=Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond|editor1-first=Fenggang|editor1-last=Yang|editor2-first=Joseph|editor2-last=Tamney|volume=3 of Religion in Chinese Societies|edition=illustrated|year=2011|publisher=BRILL|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbGaMUZ6j5IC&pg=PA223|page=223|isbn=978-9004212398}} His elder brothers were Ma Fushou, Ma Fulu and Ma Fucai (馬福財).{{cite book|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|title=Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8Nzux7z6KAC&pg=PA167|date=1998|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-80055-4|page=167}} He was the 4th son.[http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/bitstream/140.119/33588/11/15301511.pdf 甘、寧、青三馬家族世系簡表] He was educated in the Quran and Spring and Autumn Annals. He started studying with Ma Fulu at a martial arts hall in 1889; he and Ma Fushou then studied military school three years later. In 1895 he served under Gen. Dong Fuxiang, leading loyalist Chinese Muslims to crush a revolt by rebel Muslims in the Dungan revolt (1895–1896). The rebel Muslims were slaughtered and beheaded by the thousands by Ma Fuxiang's forces and his commanding officers received the severed heads from Ma. In 1897 a military Juren degree was awarded to Ma Fuxiang after he completed his military studies,{{cite book|title=Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=1998|publisher=University of Washington Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8Nzux7z6KAC&pg=PA168|page=168|isbn=978-0-295-80055-4}} and took the military exam.

Ma graduated in military science, having passed provincial examinations. Under the Qing dynasty he was promoted to Brigadier General at Palikum, New Dominion. (Xinjiang).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1G1xAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fu-hsiang|title=Who's who in China|year=1925|page=586}} He received his military training at Military School in Kansu.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BblAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fu-hsiang|title=Who's Who in China (Biographies of Chinese)|year=1973|volume=4 of Who's who in China|page=184}}{{cite book|title=Who's who in China|year=1936|publisher=China weekly review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F29xAAAAMAAJ|page=184}}

Ma was transferred along with his brother Ma Fulu and several cousins as officers under Gen. Dong Fuxiang to Beijing in 1898. During the Boxer Rebellion, the Muslim troops came to be known as the "Kansu Braves" and fought against the Eight Nation Alliance.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/consularoffic00teicuoft|title=Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China|year=1921|publisher=CUP Archive|page=[https://archive.org/details/consularoffic00teicuoft/page/187 187]}} Ma Fuxiang killed many foreigners in combat. Ma led a cavalry charge against the foreign Eight Nation Alliance army at the Battle of Langfang, defeating them and forcing the Europeans to flee. He and Ma Fulu personally planned and led the attack, encircling the foreign troops with a pincer movement.{{cite web |url=http://www.chinalxnet.com/content/2009-03/15/content_4778_2.htm |title=马福祥中国临夏网 |work=chinalxnet.com |access-date=13 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203246/http://www.chinalxnet.com/content/2009-03/15/content_4778_2.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} The foreign invasion of Beijing was derailed by their efforts for another month. The Muslim troops engaged in fierce fighting at Zhengyang Gate in Beijing. Ma Fulu,{{cite book|title=Papers from the Conference on Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance, Banff, August 20–24, 1987, Volume 3|author=Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)|year=1987|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSxYAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=20}} and four of his cousins were killed in action in 1900 in Beijing during the Battle of Peking (1900), in total one hundred soldiers from his home village died in that battle at Zhengyang. He had commanded a brigade, and Ma Fuxiang took over the position after his brother's death. For the rest of the Boxer Rebellion his unit engaged in the Siege of the International Legations (Boxer Rebellion).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNY7AAAAIAAJ&q=fu-hsiang|title=The Moslem World, Volume 31|year=1941|publisher= Hartford Seminary Foundation|location=S|page=184}} He escorted the imperial family to Xi'an.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA167|title=Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=2004|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=169|isbn=0-295-97644-6}}

In March 1909 at Palikun, Xinjiang, he served as a "Brigade General". From July to August 1912 Ma was "Acting Chief Executive Officer of Kokonur" (de facto governor of Kokonor, later Qinghai Province). On 10 October 1912, he was in Altai as the "Commander of the Guards Division".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb8ZAAAAIAAJ|title=The China year book, Part 2|author1=Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead |author2=Henry Thurburn Montague Bell |year=1969|publisher=North China Daily News & Herald|page=841}}

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During the Xinhai Revolution in 1912, Ma Fuxiang protected a Catholic mission from attacks by the Gelaohui in the Sandaohe district and he also protected another Catholic mission from attacks in 1916.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2japTNPRNAC&pg=PA567|title=Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874–1911|first=Patrick|last=Taveirne|year=2004|publisher=Leuven University Press|location=Leuven, Belgium|page=567|isbn=90-5867-365-0}}

He and his nephew Ma Hongbin received the Order of Leopold (Belgium) ("King Leopold decoration") for their work.

Some Gansu Hui led by Ma Fuxiang joined the republicans. Gansu Hui general Ma Fuxiang did not participate with Ma Anliang in the battles with Shaanxi revolutionaries and refused to join the Qing Manchu Shengyun and Changgeng in their attempts to defend the Qing before the Qing abdication, instead the independence of Gansu from Qing control was jointly declared by non-Muslim gentry with Hui Muslim Ma Fuxiang.{{cite book |last1=LIPMAN |first1=JONATHAN N. |title=Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China |date=1997 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=0-295-97644-6 |url=https://uw.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-d0cd7d04-9c70-4b20-addf-d25c69fefe8d/section/5f9725f2-69f8-4c19-9886-44718871d414 |page=171, 172|chapter=5 / Strategies of Integration Muslims in New China}} Ma Anliang, Changgeng and Shengyun failed to capture Shaanxi from the revolutionaries. In Ningxia, Qing forces were attacked by both Hui Muslim Gelaohui and Han Gelaohui members, while Hui general Ma Qi and Ma Yuanzhang were in the Qing forces fighting against them but Ma Yuanzhang defected to the republicans after Ma Anliang gave up on the Qing.{{cite book |last1=LIPMAN |first1=JONATHAN N. |title=Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China |date=1997 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=0-295-97644-6 |url=https://uw.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-d0cd7d04-9c70-4b20-addf-d25c69fefe8d/section/5f9725f2-69f8-4c19-9886-44718871d414 |page=181, 182|chapter=5 / Strategies of Integration Muslims in New China}}

The Beiyang government and Yuan Shikai received Ma Fuxiang's steadfast support once he has accepted that the Qing dynasty's time had ended.{{cite book|title=Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China|year=1921|publisher=CUP Archive|url=https://archive.org/details/consularoffic00teicuoft|page=[https://archive.org/details/consularoffic00teicuoft/page/188 188]}} The Republic appointed him to several military positions.{{cite book|title=China's inner Asian frontier: photographs of the Wulsin expedition to northwest China in 1923 : from the archives of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and the National Geographic Society|first1=Frederick Roelker|last1=Wulsin|first2=Joseph|last2=Fletcher|editor-first=Mary Ellen|editor-last=Alonso |edition=illustrated|year=1979|publisher=Peabody Museum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WltwAAAAMAAJ|page=43|isbn=0674119681}}

Ma Fuxiang was named military commander of Ningxia by president Yuan Shikai. Ma captured a Mongol separatist in Baotou and executed another Mongol prince who tried to declare himself emperor, a Buddhist monk named Ta-er Lilu-chi (Wu Daer Liufi).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA171|title=Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=2004|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=171|isbn=0-295-97644-6}} He was supported by the bandit Kao Shih-hsiu (Gao Shixiu). Ma Fuxiang defeated Kao in Ningxia in 1916 and the Mongol princes of Otoy, Üüsin and Qanggin pledged their allegiance to the fake emperor, presenting him with rifles. On 19 June 1916, Kao arrived with his Emperor, badly defeated by Ma Fushou, the brother of Ma Fuxiang and withdrew through Otoy to Sandaohe. In 1917, Kao was defeated at Shizzuizi, the Emperor and Kao's underlings were executed and Kao fled.

Ma Fuxiang's book, "Shuofang Daozhi", portrays these events. An account written by Frenchman Harry Serruys describes them.

"Ma Fuxiang, the commander of the Protective Army, dispatched Ma Fushou, chief of staff of the Brilliant Military Army, to attack the robbers in Zuuqa temple. Ma Fuxiang dispatched Fushou with an army to attack Kao's army at Zuuqa temple and destroyed the band. In the second month of 1917 Ma Fuxiang executed Wu Daer Liuji. Ma Fuxiang dispatched his nephew Ma Hongbin to attack Kao and Wu at Shizuishan. When Liu-chi was defeated, Ma Fuxiang ambushed him and defeated him again. Ma Fuxiang captured Yu Ling-yun, Su Xuefeng, Yao Zhankui, Zhang Zhenqing, Li Zongwen and several others; in all 18 men were executed. Ma Fuxiang wrote a commemorative inscription for men from Ningxia who died in the expedition against the bogus Emperor. In the third month of the sixth year of the Republic [1917], Ma Fuxiang was at the burial of his mother. As he reached Ning'anbu Ma Hongbin sent him a telegram stating that the bogus emperor and the other bogus generals had mounted an invasion from Suiyuan. After the victory, officers in charge of military headquarters and regular soldiers were honored."{{cite book|title=Etudes Mongoles et Sibériennes 16|year=1976|author=Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes|publisher=SEMS|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0I7ML6rrzN0C|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0I7ML6rrzN0C/page/n53 53]}}

Ma Fuxiang defeated brigands near Sandaohe (San-Tao-Ho) and expelled them from Ningxia, according to Belgian Catholic missionary J. Terstappen in 1915.

Han-Hui relations were improved during Ma Fuxiang's reign over Ningxia due to his policies.{{cite book|title=China's Ethnic Groups, Issues 1–4 |year=2004|publisher=Ethnic Groups Unity Publishing House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nd0uAQAAIAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=217}}

Ma Fuxiang and the Jahriyya Sufi leader Ma Yuanzhang became enemies after Ma Fuxiang got very angry that Ma Yuanzhang refused to help him remove Zhang Guangjian as governor of Gansu and telegraphed Beijing that Zhang should remain as governor. Ma Fuxiang and other Gansu generals believed that a native of Gansu province should be governor rather than an outsider.{{cite book|title=Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=1998|publisher=University of Washington Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8Nzux7z6KAC|page=183|isbn=0295800550}}{{cite book|title=Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond|editor1-first=Fenggang|editor1-last=Yang|editor2-first=Joseph|editor2-last=Tamney|volume=3 of Religion in Chinese Societies|edition=illustrated|year=2011|publisher=BRILL|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbGaMUZ6j5IC&pg=PA224|page=224|isbn=978-9004212398}} Ma Fuxiang himself was considered the most eligible person to serve as Governor of Gansu after Zhang's unsuccessful term, because of his military service under the Qing and Republic of China and his rule over Ningxia.{{cite book|title=The border world of Gansu, 1895–1935|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=1980|publisher=Stanford University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8REAQAAIAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=252}}

He invested in the wool trade and a factory that made matches.

Ma Fuxiang effectively took Ma Anliang's place as de facto leader of Muslims in northwest China when Ma Anliang died in 1918.{{cite book|title=Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China|year=1921|publisher=CUP Archive|url=https://archive.org/details/consularoffic00teicuoft|page=vi|access-date=24 April 2014}}

Ma Fuxiang was involved in relief efforts in Lanzhou during the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake.{{cite web |url=http://www.gs.xinhuanet.com/dfpd/2011-01/04/content_21782701.htm |title=马福祥--"戎马书生" |work=xinhuanet.com |access-date=13 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023940/http://www.gs.xinhuanet.com/dfpd/2011-01/04/content_21782701.htm |archive-date=24 September 2015 }}{{cite web|url=http://dev.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2011/09/29/012201290_01.shtml|title=缅怀中国近代史上的回族将领马福祥将军戎马|work=gansudaily.com.cn|access-date=13 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030050904/http://dev.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2011/09/29/012201290_01.shtml|archive-date=30 October 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.gscn.com.cn/figure/system/2013/04/08/010311002.shtml |title=ĩ䰮 |work=gscn.com.cn |access-date=13 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023958/http://www.gscn.com.cn/figure/system/2013/04/08/010311002.shtml |archive-date=24 September 2015 }}

Ma was appointed Military Governor of Suiyuan{{cite book|title=Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan, and the Manchurian Idea|first=Gavan|last=McCormack|edition=illustrated|year=1977|publisher=Stanford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoSrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|page=54|isbn=0804709459}} by the Beiyang government and served in that position from 1921 to 1925.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoSrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|title=Chang Tso-lin in northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan, and the Manchurian Idea|first=Gavan|last=McCormack|year=1977|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=54|isbn=0-8047-0945-9}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnzaAAAAMAAJ|title=The Opium Trade, 1910–1941, Volume 5|author=Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Public Record Office|year=1974|publisher=Scholarly Resources|page=106|isbn=978-0-8420-1795-4}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThUXZA0ehXoC&pg=PA244|title=The Warlord Politics in China, 1916–1928|author=Hsi-sheng Chi|year=1976|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=244|isbn=0-8047-0894-0}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoSrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|title=Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China, 1911-1928: China, Japan, and the Manchurian Idea|first=Gavan|last=McCormack|year=1977|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=54|isbn=0-8047-0945-9}} Suiyuan had a {{convert|400|mi|km|order=flip|abbr=off|adj=on}} river valley and a railroad.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpQa22PJutwC&pg=PA267|title=In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China|first=Upton|last=Close|year=2007|publisher=READ BOOKS|page=269|isbn=978-1-4067-1675-7}} American businessmen reported that Ma Fuxiang considered modernizing infrastructure in the region with motorized transport.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBHnAAAAMAAJ|title=The Trans-Pacific, Volume 7, Issue 2|first=Benjamin Wilfried|last=Fleisher|year=1922|publisher=B. W. Fleisher.|page=59}} A Department of Industry and a Department of Education were established in Suiyuan by Ma Fuxiang while he was military governor there.{{cite book|title=Constructing Suiyuan: the politics of northwestern territory and development in early twentieth-century China|first=Justin|last=Tighe|volume=15 of Brill's Inner Asian library|edition=illustrated|year=2005|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=puxwAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=82|isbn=9004144668}}

Ma Fuxiang, a member of the Zhili clique, signed a denunciation of the Anhui clique and its military arm, the Anfu Club led by Xu Shuzheng and Duan Qirui. The denunciation was circulated through a telegram called Paoting-fu, on 12 July 1920. The Zhili clique was led by Wu Peifu. At the time Ma was Defense Commissioner of Ningxia, Gansu. This led to the Zhili–Anhui War.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/chinaawakened02tyaugoog|title=China Awakened|author=Min-chʻien Tuk Zung Tyau|year=1922|publisher=The Macmillan company|page=[https://archive.org/details/chinaawakened02tyaugoog/page/n195 168]}}

The Gelaohui and Ma Fuxiang came to an agreement in 1922, in which Ma Fuxiang agreed to allow the Gelaohui to extort protection money from wool merchants in Baotou.{{cite journal |last= Millward |first= James A. |title= The Chinese Border Wool Trade of 1880–1937 |url= https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ryPtj5bHAyIJ:www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/millwarj/website%2520images/LONGWOOL.doc+ma+fuxiang+tibet+mongolia+china+life+death&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgPNJ9zBBcZ0j4BIpmRtSi0aNr0pZV-A9qa-fSzQD9EuagJbpxGk6GF1CPaSiWr9YMY_37vx53-O4XPXIWOazgjgDYcuLwkAyaKhB-mDyW90o8LnFMZHYL2HVPpNomy1CBw7PKB&sig=AHIEtbSJHqDltQOHYstyVS83PFSI0aEz4A|page= 38 |access-date=10 July 2014}} Ma Fuxiang controlled Baotou militarily while the central government in Beijing controlled Baotou's jurisdiction.{{cite book|title=China's inner Asian frontier: photographs of the Wulsin expedition to northwest China in 1923 : from the archives of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and the National Geographic Society|first1=Frederick Roelker|last1=Wulsin|first2=Joseph|last2=Fletcher|editor-first=Mary Ellen|editor-last=Alonso |edition=illustrated|year=1979|publisher=Peabody Museum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WltwAAAAMAAJ|page=43|isbn=0674119681}}

Ma Fuxiang, as supervisor in Suiyuan, sent telegrams regarding the uniting of Rehe and Chahar for defense purposes from January–September 1924.{{cite book|title=From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924–1925|first=Arthur|last=Waldron|edition=illustrated, reprint, revised|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOK2HJ7BHigC&pg=PA282|page=282|isbn=978-0-521-52332-5}}

Ma Fuxiang allied with Gen. Wu Peifu and acquired land from the political separation of Inner Mongolia from Zhang Zuolin.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpQa22PJutwC&pg=RA1-PA266|title=In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China|first=Upton|last=Close|year=2007|publisher=READ BOOKS|page=355|isbn=978-1-4067-1675-7}} Ma Fuxiang's nephew Ma Hongbin was in charge of his army, and his civil administrator was a non-Muslim. Ma Hongbin read to Upton Close the revelations of a prophet in Shandong who advocated the union of Buddhism, Islam, Daoism, Catholicism and Protestantism in China under Confucianism.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJACAAAAMAAJ|title=In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China|first=Upton|last=Close|year=2007|publisher=READ BOOKS|page=269|isbn=978-1-4067-1675-7}}

According to The Trans-Pacific, Volume 6, Ma Fuxiang "religiously tolerant" and "materially progressive", since when he was served food cooked by non-Muslims or even presented with wine, while he was amidst with non-Muslims, he was willing to eat and drink.{{cite book|title=The Trans-Pacific, Volume 6|editor-first=Benjamin Wilfried|editor-last=Fleisher|year=1922|publisher=B. W. Fleisher.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBvnAAAAMAAJ|page=47}} According to Upton Close, he did not drink wine or smoke tobacco, but he served them to guests.

Ma Fuxiang's wife died in 1927 in Beijing, and a funeral was held in Hochow.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IsdBkH-XP_kC&pg=PA53|title=The Arabic Scholar's Son: Growing Up in Turbulent North China (1927–1943) |first=Fred|last=Harris|year=2007|publisher=AuthorHouse|page=53|isbn=978-1-4343-3692-7}} She was one of his multiple wives.

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In 1924, Ma Fuxiang met with Kuomintang leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Beijing and informed him that he would welcome the leadership of Dr. Sun.[http://www.elycn.com/gs/lx/015/003.htm 马福祥] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513183437/http://www.elycn.com/gs/lx/015/003.htm |date=13 May 2013 }}

Ma Fuxiang then joined the Kuomintang during the Northern Expedition in 1928. He and his son Ma Hongkui were originally generals in Feng Yuxiang's army.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D45tt_cSGUYC&pg=PA20|title=Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 5|first1=Howard L. |last1=Boorman |author2=Joseph K. H. Cheng |year=1979|publisher=University Columbia University Press|page=20|isbn=0-231-04558-1}} He became a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee, member of the State Council, Mayor of Qingdao, Governor of Anhui and chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNY7AAAAIAAJ|title=Familiar The Moslem World, Volume 31|year=1941|publisher=Hartford Seminary Foundation|page=184}} Ma Fuxiang founded Islamic organizations sponsored by the Kuomintang, including the China Islamic Association (Zhongguo Huijiao Gonghui).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA169|title=Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=2004|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=175|isbn=0-295-97644-6}}

Ma Fuxiang and other Muslim warlords like Ma Qi broke with Feng Yuxiang's Guominjun during the Central Plains War and pledged allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang in the name of nationalism.{{cite book|title=The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity|first=Uradyn Erden|last=Bulag|edition=illustrated|year=2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3C2B9oXVbQC&pg=PA47|page=47|isbn=0742511448}} In his involvement in national politics, Ma was alone among the Muslim warlords.{{cite book|title=Devout societies vs. impious states?: transmitting Islamic learning in Russia, Central Asia and China, through the twentieth century : proceedings of an international colloquium held in the Carré des Sciences, French Ministry of Research, Paris, November 12–13, 2001|editor-first=Stéphane A.|editor-last=Dudoignon|volume=258 of Islamkundliche Untersuchungen |year=2004|publisher=Schwarz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NyhtAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=67|isbn=3879973148}}

Ma was governor of Anhui from March–September 1930.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SmemAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185|title=Government and Politics in Kuomintang China, 1927–1937|author=Hung-mao Tien|year=1972|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=185|isbn=0-8047-0812-6|access-date=28 June 2010}}{{cite book|title=The China Monthly Review, Volume 52|year=1930|publisher=J.W. Powell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IETAAAAIAAJ|page=73}}

In Nanjing in April 1931 Ma Fuxiang attended a national leadership conference with Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang, in which Chiang and Zhang dauntlessly upheld that Manchuria was part of China in the face of the Japanese invasion.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=03catqbPCmgC&pg=PA93|title=Government The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China|first=Jay|last=Taylor|year=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=93|isbn=978-0-674-03338-2}}{{cite book|title=The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China|first=Jay|last=Taylor|edition=illustrated|year=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/generalissimochi00tayl|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/generalissimochi00tayl/page/93 93]|isbn=978-0674033382}}

Prominent Muslims like Ma Liang (general), Ma Fuxiang and Bai Chongxi met in 1931 in Nanjing to discuss inter communal tolerance between Hui and Han.{{cite book|title=Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IsTAAAAIAAJ|year=1942|publisher=Foreign affairs association of Japan.|page=1626}}

Ma gave explorer Sven Hedin permission to enter Gansu.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ibi9Xh_ukQEC&pg=PA138|title=Riddles of the Gobi Desert: With 24 Plates and a Map|first=Sven|last=Hedin|year=2002|publisher=Asian Educational Services|page=138|isbn=81-206-1614-6}}

Ma was also appointed as a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA474|title=Riddles The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912–1920|author1=George Ernest Morrison |author2=Hui-Min Lo |year=1978|publisher=CUP Archive|page=474|isbn=0-521-21561-7}}

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Ma Fuxiang recruited Salars for his army, classifying them into five inner clans and eight outer clans. He designated the assimilated Tibetan-speaking Salars as the "outer" group. These Salars were both fluent in Salar and Chinese. Some were uniformed and had carbines, rifles, pistols and binoculars. Muslims from Hezhou served in his cavalry.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LntAAAAMAAJ|title=The Desert Road to Turkestan|first=Owen|last=Lattimore|year=1972|publisher=AMS Press|page=79|isbn=0-404-03887-5}}although the source says "Turkish", the term Turkish was used by Westerners during the colonial era to refer to any Turkic language and not the modern-day Turkish language of Turkey. Therefore, "turkish" has been changed to "salar".

Dongxiang people were also known as Santa (San-t'a) people, and many of them reportedly served in Ma Fuxiang's army. It was even said that Ma Fuxiang himself was of Santa descent, and had assimilated into the Hui community. The Santa Muslim Dongxiang Mongols continued to play a major role in his army, protecting towns.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSttAAAAMAAJ|title=The Mongols and Ming China: Customs and History, Volume 1|first1=Henry |last1=Serruys |first2=Françoise |last2=Aubin |year=1987|publisher=Variorum Reprints|page=cxv|isbn=0-86078-210-7}} Ma Fuxiang's Santa troops maintained an old Mongol and Qing custom of distributing specially marked arrows as tokens to officers to show their status.{{cite book|title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology|first=Pamela Kyle|last=Crossley|year=1999|publisher=University of California Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn4iv_RJv8oC&pg=PA142|page=142|isbn=0520928849}}

Among the posts he held was Commander of the 6th Mixed Brigade of Gansu Army in 1922 and 7th Division of the Northwest Army in 1926.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F29xAAAAMAAJ|title=Who's Who in China, Volume 3, Part 2|year=1936|publisher=China weekly review|page=184}}

Ma Fuxiang had inherited his army from his family, from Ma Fulu and Ma Qianling. He then bequeathed it on to his son Ma Hongkui.{{cite book|title=Annals, Volumes 1–5|author=Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference|year=1979|publisher=The Conference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDxtAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=52}}

The opium trade thrived in Suiyuan province during the Republican era in China.{{cite book|title=Constructing Suiyuan: The Politics of Northwestern Territory and Development in Early Twentieth-century China|first=Justin|last=Tighe|volume=15 of Brill's Inner Asian library|issn=1566-7162|edition=illustrated|year=2005|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=puxwAAAAMAAJ|pages=69, 82, 138|isbn=9004144668}}

Opium (poppy) farming was already thriving in Suiyuan by the time Ma Fuxiang became the military governor in 1921, due to the fact that soldiers were not being paid their salaries at all, so they resorted to dealing with opium farmers to make money.{{cite book|title=The Opium Trade, 1910–1941, Volume 5|others=Contributors Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Public Record Office|edition=reprint|year=1974|publisher=Scholarly Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnzaAAAAMAAJ|page=106|isbn=084201795X}} Poppy farming had been banned by Ma Fuxiang in Gansu, but he admitted when he was appointed as Military Governor of Suiyuan that since the opium trade in Suiyuan was so rampant, that he both could not and would not deal with the situation.{{cite book|title=The China Year Book|first1=Henry George Wandesforde|last1=Woodhead|first2=Henry Thurburn Montague|last2=Bell|year=1923|publisher=North China Daily News & Herald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb8ZAAAAIAAJ&q=ma+fu+hsiang+opium|page=890}}

In 1923, an officer of the Bank of China from Baotou found out that Ma Fuxiang was assisting the drug trade in opium which helped finance his military expenses. He earned a sum of $2 million from taxing those sales in 1923. General Ma had been using the Bank, a branch of the Government of China's exchequer, to arrange for silver currency to be transported to Baotou to use it to sponsor the trade.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQeDYe8mv24C&pg=PA31|title=Opium, state, and society: China's narco-economy and the Guomindang, 1924–1937|first=Edward R.|last=Slack|year=2001|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|page=31|isbn=0-8248-2361-3}}{{cite book|title=Opium, state, and society: China's narco-economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937|first=Edward R.|last=Slack|edition=illustrated|year=2001|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zAzEAAAAIAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=31|isbn=0824822781}}

While Ma caused opium to become rampant due to his support for the cultivation of opium and its trade in Suiyuan, he also enabled policies which benefited the residents in Suiyuan, filling posts in military, educational, and administrative manners with Suiyuan people and expanding education.{{cite journal |last1= Niu |first1= Jingzhong|last2= Fu|first2=Lina |date=June 2007 |title=Ma Fu-Xiang, The Suiyuan Governor in the Reign of the Northern Warlords |url=http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-NMGS200706009.htm |journal= Journal of Inner Mongolia Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science)|publisher=History Department, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China 010021 |access-date=13 July 2014}}

Senators started an impeachment against Ma Fuxiang over his involvement in the opium trade and farming. Ma had created a monopoly over the opium trade in addition to supporting the farming of opium.{{cite book|title=The China Year Book ..|year=1925|publisher=Brentano's.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhQfAQAAMAAJ|page=584}}

It was hoped that Ma Fuxiang would have improved the situation, since Chinese Muslims were well known for opposition to smoking opium{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSl5cl_wt24C&pg=PA312|title=Chronique du Toumet-Ortos: looking through the lens of Joseph Van Oost, missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915–1921)|first=Ann|last=Heylen|year=2004|publisher=Leuven University Press|location=Leuven, Belgium|page=312|isbn=90-5867-418-5}}

Ma Fuxiang officially prohibited opium and made it illegal in Ningxia, but the Guominjun reversed his policy. By 1933, people from every level of society were abusing the drug and Ningxia was left in destitution{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDxtAAAAMAAJ&q=fuxiang+ban|title=Annals, Volumes 1–5|author=Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference|year=1979|publisher=The Conference|page=51}}

On 11 September 1930, Ma Fuxiang celebrated his birthday in Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia, His annual opium profits reached $15,000,000. A film of this event and his poppy fields was recorded by Universal Newspaper Newsreel.{{cite web |url=http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675044384_General-Ma-Fu-Hsiang_celebrates-birthday_private-army_opium-fields |title=Stock Footage – Mongolian Monarch, General Ma Fuxiang (or Ma Fu Hsiang) celebrates birthday with his private army in Sui Yuan, Mongolia |work=criticalpast.com |access-date=13 August 2015}}{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnhJVM3oSx4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211218/fnhJVM3oSx4 |archive-date=2021-12-18 |url-status=live|title=Mongolian Monarch, General Ma Fuxiang (or Ma Fu Hsiang) celebrates birthday with ...HD Stock Footage|publisher= CriticalPast |date=13 June 2014}}{{cbignore}}

Ma Fuxiang's army also contained many of the Chinese Muslim opium runners in western Inner Mongolia.{{cite web|url=http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Landeskunde/im-bandits-1.html|title=Banditry in Inner Mongolia|last=May|first=Timothy M.|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison |access-date=28 June 2010}} A lot of the opium from Gansu was being traded by Ma Fuxiang's Hezhou (Ho Chou) Muslim cavalry.{{cite book|title=The desert road to Turkestan|first=Owen|last=Lattimore|edition=reprint, illustrated|year=1972|publisher=AMS Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LntAAAAMAAJ|page=79|isbn=0404038875}}

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Ma Fuxiang, along with Ma Linyi, sponsored Imam Wang Jingzhai when he went on hajj to Mecca in 1921.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C&pg=PA315|title=Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation, Communication|first1=Stéphane A. |last1=Dudoignon |first2=Hisao |last2=Komatsu |first3=Yasushi |last3=Kosugi |year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=315|isbn=978-0-415-36835-3}}{{cite book|title=Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation and Communication|editor1-first=Stephane A.|editor1-last=Dudoignon|editor2-first=Komatsu|editor2-last=Hisao|editor3-first=Kosugi|editor3-last=Yasushi|volume=3 of New Horizons in Islamic Studies|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLo5d1pZR74C&pg=PA342|page=342|isbn=1134205988}}

Ma Fuxiang supported Imam Hu Songshan.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C|title=Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation, Communication|first1=Stéphane A. |last1=Dudoignon |first2=Hisao |last2=Komatsu |first3=Yasushi |last3=Kosugi |year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=261|isbn=978-0-415-36835-3}}

The Hui Muslim Chengda Teacher's Academy was supported by Ma Fuxiang, along with other Kuomintang Muslim officials. The Chengda Teacher's Academy was involved in reforming education and instilling Chinese nationalism among the Hui Muslims.{{cite journal |last= Mao|first= Yufeng |date=2011 |title=Muslim Educational Reform in 20th-Century China: The Case of the Chengda Teachers Academy |url=http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=EXTRO_033_0143 |journal= Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident|publisher= Presses universitaires de Vincennes |volume=1 |issue=33 |isbn=9782842923341|pages= 143–170 |doi= 10.4000/extremeorient.193|access-date=9 June 2014|doi-access=free }}

Ma built many elementary and high schools for Muslims throughout northwest China. He founded the Association for the Promoting of Islamic Teaching in 1918 in the provincial capital of Gansu.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NyhtAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+qi+muslim|title=Devout Societies vs. Impious States?: Transmitting Islamic Learning in Russia, Central Asia and China Through the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of an International Colloquium Jeld in the Carré des Sciences, French Ministry of Research, Paris, November 12–13, 2001|first=Stéphane A.|last=Dudoignon|year=2004|publisher=Schwarz|isbn=3-87997-314-8|page=67}} For the purpose of educating and building a class of intellectuals among the Hui in northwest China, Beijing's Xibei Gongxue (the Northwestern Middle School) and the Yuehua were financed by Ma Fuxiang. He believed that modern education would help Hui Chinese build a better society and help China resist foreign imperialism and help build the nation. He had both the military authority and economic power to help fund education. Until he died in 1932, 100 yuan every month was donated by him for education.{{cite web|url=http://science-islam.net/article.php3?id_article=676&lang=fr|title=The Completion of the Idea of Dual Loyalty Towards China and Islam|last=Masumi|first=Matsumoto|publisher=Etudes orientales|year=2004|access-date=28 June 2010|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430161534/http://science-islam.net/article.php3?id_article=676&lang=fr|archive-date=30 April 2011}}

He established a public library in Ningxia, and sponsored various Muslim schools. He was a Chinese nationalist and a Confucianist, and was praised for his "guojia yizhi" (national consciousness) by non-Muslims. He also invested in new editions and reprintings of Confucian and Islamic texts.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA169|title=Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=2004|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=176|isbn= 978-0-295-97644-0}}{{cite book|title=Glossary of Chinese Islamic Terms (中国伊斯兰教词汇表)|first=Jianping|last=Wang|edition=illustrated|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWAGUYLgAU8C&pg=PA144|page=144|isbn=0700706208}}{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures, Volume 1|first1=Suad|last1=Joseph|first2=Afsaneh|last2=Najmabadi|editor1-first=Suad|editor1-last=Joseph|editor2-first=Afsaneh|editor2-last=Najmabadi|others=Contributor: Suad Joseph|edition=illustrated|year=2003|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rv0iAQAAIAAJ|page=127|isbn=9004132473}} He edited "Shuofang Daozhi".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ybyHgAACAAJ&q=shuofang+daozhi |title=Shuo fang dao zhi 31st Edition(朔方道志: 31卷)|author=马福祥 (Ma Fuxiang)|year=1987 |publisher=Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House (天津古籍出版社) }} a gazette, and books such as "Meng Cang ZhuangKuang: Hui Bu Xinjiang fu".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVq1GwAACAAJ|title=蒙藏狀况: 回部新疆坿 (Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Status: Mikurube Xinjiang Agricultural Experiment Station)|author=馬福祥(Ma Fuxiang)|year=1931|publisher=Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission(蒙藏委員會)}}

A new edition of a book by Ma Te-hsin, "Ho-yin Ma Fu-ch'u hsien-sheng i-shu Ta hua tsung kuei Ssu tien yaohui", which was printed in 1865, was reprinted in 1927 by Ma Fuxiang.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VaOaAAAAIAAJ|title=Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'Ung-Chih|first=Mary Clabaugh|last=Wright|author-link=Mary C. Wright|year=1957|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=406|isbn=0-8047-0475-9}}

Yunting (雲亭) was the courtesy name of Ma Fuxiang. A school, the Yunting Provincial Normal School, was named after him.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C&pg=PA251|title=Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation, Communication|first1=Stéphane A. |last1=Dudoignon |first2=Hisao |last2=Komatsu |first3=Yasushi |last3=Kosugi |year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=251|isbn=978-0-415-36835-3}} Ma promoted Muslim women's education in Shaanxi.

Ma had an interest in Chinese classical learning and western engineering and science. He thought his own Hui people fiercely loyal but "primitive" and lacking in "the educational and political privileges of the Han Chinese". Ma encouraged Huis to assimilate into Chinese civilization and culture,{{cite journal|jstor=189017|title=Ethnicity and Politics in Republican China: The Ma Family Warlords of Gansu|journal=Modern China|last=Lipman|first=Jonathan N.|date=Jul 1984|page=296|publisher=Sage Publications, Inc.|volume=10|issue=3|doi=10.1177/009770048401000302|s2cid=143843569}} and created the Assimilationist Group to promote this idea.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LSvkQvvmAMC&pg=PA368|title=The religious traditions of Asia: religion, history, and culture|first=Joseph Mitsuo |last=Kitagawa|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|page=368|isbn=0-7007-1762-5}} Ma Fuxiang's assimilationist organization a mix of Islam and Confucianism with Hui being considered an integral part of China, the name of this organization was the Assimilationist (Neixiang) clique.{{cite book|title=Chinese Republican Studies Newsletter, Volumes 1–7|others=Contributors University of Connecticut. Dept. of History, Denison University. Dept. of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for Asian Studies|year=1975|publisher=Center for Asian Studies, University of Illinois|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4RUiAQAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=229}}

The learned "scholar" Gen. Ma Fuxiang was considered "progressive" while the senior de facto leader of Muslims in Northwest China, Gen. Ma Anliang, was considered "reactionary".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yn9CAQAAIAAJ|title=The Far Eastern review, engineering, finance, commerce, Volume 15|year=1919|page=588}} Ma was considered both a warlord and a Muslim scholar.{{cite book|title=Devout societies vs. impious states?: transmitting Islamic learning in Russia, Central Asia and China, through the twentieth century : proceedings of an international colloquium held in the Carré des Sciences, French Ministry of Research, Paris, November 12–13, 2001|editor-first=Stéphane A.|editor-last=Dudoignon|volume=258 of Islamkundliche Untersuchungen|year=2004|publisher=Schwarz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NyhtAAAAMAAJ|page=281|isbn=3879973148}}

Ma Fuxiang took a stance against religious sectarianism and the menhuan (Islamic sects in China) since he believed that it was the cause of violence, and in order to keep positive Han and Hui relations . He promoted education for Muslims instead of backing certain sects and Imams, and also studied Confucianism, and republished Islamic texts and translations. Ma supported strengthening China and promoting unity between different sects of Islam in China, which Imams like Hu Songshan advocated.{{cite book|title=The Religious Question in Modern China|first1=Vincent|last1=Goossaert|first2=David A.|last2=Palmer|year=2011|publisher=University of Chicago Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bx83dlLMPdMC&pg=PA88|page=88|isbn=978-0226304168}}

One of Ma Fuxiang's calligraphic works was a cursive rendering of the Chinese character for Tiger, 虎, in ink on a scroll. It was marked with his seals.{{Cite web | url=http://www.gg-art.com/identify/viewBig.php?roomdetailid=07744 | title=马福祥书法 | access-date=14 April 2016 | archive-date=25 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425155705/http://www.gg-art.com/identify/viewBig.php?roomdetailid=07744 | url-status=dead }} It was auctioned at Oriental Art Sales in 1980,{{cite book|title=Oriental Art Sales, Volumes 743–772|year=1980|publisher=Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZMeAQAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=239}} and at Christie's on 16–17 September 2010.{{cite web |url= http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/ma-fuxiang-one-stroke-tiger-5347715-details.aspx |title=Ma Fuxiang (1876–1932): One-Stroke Tiger |work=Christie's |year=2015}}

An inscription was written at Mount Tai by Ma Fuxiang.

File:Chiang Kaishek with Muslim General Ma Fushou.jpg, with Chiang Kai-shek.]]

Ma Fuxiang's father was Ma Qianling. Ma's son Ma Hongkui became a general in the National Revolutionary Army.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iOflAAAAIAAJ|title=China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China|first=June Teufel|last=Dreyer|year=1976|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=27|isbn=0-674-11964-9}}

He had several wives. One of them died in 1927 in Beijing, and a funeral was held in Hochow. Another wife, Ma Tsai (te), was the one who gave birth to Ma Hongkui on 14 March 1892.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfwZAAAAYAAJ|title=World Biography, Part 2|year=1948|publisher=Institute for Research in Biography|page=2917}} She died in 1948.{{cite magazine |title=CHINESE WARLORD |magazine=LIFE |volume=25 |number=18|date=1 November 1948|page=58|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57}}

His nephew was Ma Hongbin, another general. His brothers were Ma Fulu, Ma Fushou and Ma Fucai. He became a Sworn brother of President Chiang Kai-shek.{{cite book|title=China at War: Regions of China, 1937–1945|editor1-first=Stephen R.|editor1-last=MacKinnon|editor2-first=Diana|editor2-last=Lary|editor3-first=Ezra F.|editor3-last=Vogel|edition=illustrated|year=2007|publisher=Stanford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeSeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA77|page=77|isbn=978-0804755092}}

He became so prominent and well known that some Jewish organizations in the United States claimed that his father was Jewish.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-MSAAAAIAAJ|title=The Menorah Journal |volume=15 |issue=4–6 |year=1928 |publisher=Intercollegiate Menorah Association |location=New York, N.Y. |page=454}}

Ma Fuxiang, as the chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OrWGTbmSuOcC|title=China Monthly Review |year=1931|publisher=Millard Publishing Co., inc.|volume=58 |page=392}} made a statement that Mongolia and Tibet were parts of the Republic of China:

Our Party [the Guomindang] takes the development of the weak and small and resistance to the strong and violent as our sole and most urgent task. This is even more true for those groups which are not of our kind [Ch. fei wo zulei zhe]. Now the peoples [minzu] of Mongolia and Tibet are closely related to us, and we have great affection for one another: our common existence and common honor already have a history of over a thousand years.... Mongolia and Tibet's life and death are China's life and death. China absolutely cannot cause Mongolia and Tibet to break away from China's territory, and Mongolia and Tibet cannot reject China to become independent. At this time, there is not a single nation on earth except China that will sincerely develop Mongolia and Tibet."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA167|title=Familiar Strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China|first=Jonathan Neaman|last=Lipman|year=2004|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=167|isbn=0-295-97644-6}}

In 1930 Ma met with the Tibetan dKon-mchog-gro-nyi to talk about Tibetan matters, since he was assigned to deal with Tibetan related issues. Chiang Kai-shek had delegated dKon-mchog-gro-nyi to communicate with the 13th Dalai Lama over the issue of the 9th Panchen Lama, who had fled Tibet and joined the Chinese government after a dispute against the 13th Dalai Lama.{{cite book|title=China Tibetology, Issues 6–11|others=Contributor Zhongguo Zang xue yan jiu zhong xin|year=2006|publisher=Office for the Journal China Tibetology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Ak_AQAAIAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=437}} The Dalai Lama sent a message to Ma Fuxiang on 28 December 1930, accusing the Panchen Lama's adherents of inciting Sichuan warlords during the Sino-Tibetan War.{{cite book|title=Journal of Asian History, Volumes 36–37|edition=illustrated|year=2002|publisher=O. Harrassowitz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZoptAAAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=132}}

During the Sino-Tibetan War, Ma Fuxiang, as head of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, sent a telegraph to Muslim Kuomintang official Tang Kesan ordering him to breach the agreement with Tibet, because he was concerned that political rivals among the Kuomintang in Nanjing were using the incident for their own gains.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YD0sAQAAIAAJ&q=Ma+Fuxiang|title=The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, Volumes 31–34|year=2000|publisher=Oriental Society of Australia|page=34}}{{cite book|title=American Journal of Chinese Studies, Volume 13|others=Contributor American Association for Chinese Studies|year=2006|publisher=American Association for Chinese Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgAOAQAAMAAJ&q=ma+fuxiang|page=217}}

Ma Fuxiang opened a session of the Mongolian Affairs Conference in 1931 with an inaugural speech. In the conference, China condemned the division of Outer Mongolia and Tannu Tuva by the Soviets.{{cite book|title=The China Year Book|first=Henry George Wandesforde|last=Woodhead|editor-first=Henry Thurburn Montague|editor-last=Bell|year=1931|publisher=North China Daily News & Herald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wMoAAAAMAAJ&q=Ma+fu+hsiang+mixed|page=28}} Ma then led the closing ceremony of the conference on 12 July.{{cite book|title=The China Year Book|first=Henry George Wandesforde|last=Woodhead|editor-first=Henry Thurburn Montague|editor-last=Bell|year=1931|publisher=North China Daily News & Herald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wMoAAAAMAAJ&q=Ma+fu+hsiang+|page=29}}

Ma Fuxiang died around Lianghsiang, 19 August 1932, while he was traveling to Beijing to receive medical treatment, from Chikungsan around Hankou.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYsTAAAAIAAJ&q=fu-hsiang|title=The China monthly review, Volume 61|year=1932|publisher=Stanford J.W. Powell|page=458}}

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