15 octobre 2021
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ruikunze, « Museum of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and Army Land Reclamation », Topographies of Red Memory in Modern China, ID : 10.58079/tj8w
During the Qing Dynasty and Republican China, Xinjiang’s connection with the central government and China proper was weak. It obtained provincial level status in 1884 and, when the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) arrived in 1949, less than ten percent of its population was the Han ethnic group (Bachman). The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps 新疆生产建设兵团 (XPCC) was founded on October 9, 1954 by Wang Zhen 王震 (1908-1993), the military commander who led his 359th Brigade to cultivate land ...