Zuo Baogui ( zh, 左宝贵, t=左寶貴; 1837,

Shandong Province Shandong is a coastal province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center ...

– 1894,

Pyongyang Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...

) was a Chinese Hui

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

general during the

Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

who fought in the

First Sino-Japanese War The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 189417 April 1895), or the First China–Japan War, was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Joseon, Korea. In Chinese it is commonly known as th ...

. He was killed in action during the Battle of Pyongyang in 1894. It was reported that the Muslim troops under his command fought well until his death in an artillery strike. A memorial was later constructed in his honor.

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* *{{cite book, last=Paine, first=S.C.M, title=The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perception, Power, and Primacy, publisher=Cambridge University Press, year=2003, isbn=0-521-81714-5 1837 births 1894 deaths Chinese Muslim generals 19th-century Chinese generals Generals from Shandong Hui people Qing dynasty generals Qing military personnel killed in action Chinese military personnel of the First Sino-Japanese War Qing dynasty Muslims