Jodbajab
Jodbajab (1873 or 1877–1945) was a military officer and government official in the Inner Mongolia area under the late Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, and Mengjiang governments.[1][2] He was an ethnic Mongol belonging to the Plain and Bordered White Banner of Xilin Gol League.[3]
Names
Historical sources refer to him under a variety of names:
- Jodbajab or Jodbadjab, Roman spellings of his Mongolian name based on the Classical Mongolian alphabet[2]
- Jodovjav, a transcription of Mongolian Cyrillic Жодовжав[2]
- Shih Hai (Chinese: 什海; pinyin: Shíhǎi or Chinese: 世海; pinyin: Shìhǎi), his Chinese courtesy name[1]
- Tso Shih-hai (Chinese: 卓什海; pinyin: Zhuō Shíhǎi), a Chinese name which combines the first character of the Chinese transcription of his Mongolian name (Chinese: 卓特巴扎普; pinyin: Zhuōtèbazhāpǔ, less commonly Chinese: 卓特巴扎布; pinyin: Zhuōtèbazhābù), followed by his Chinese courtesy name
Career
During the Xinhai Revolution which overthrew the Qing, Khalkha Mongol banners declared independence as the state of Mongolia and occupied Dariganga, which was then under Jodbajab's jurisdiction.[4] This occurred in March 1912. He led an attack in an attempt to recover the area, but on 28 August was taken prisoner and held in Urga (today Ulan Bator). He would be released in 1915 under the terms of the Treaty of Kyakhta.[5] After his return to Inner Mongolia, he was commended by Yuan Shikai's government and commissioned a lieutenant-general. From there he rose to become the senior amban in Chahar Province.[4] During the Outer Mongolian Revolution of 1921, he was dispatched in another attempt to re-establish control in Dariganga, but was driven out by Soviet Kalmyk troops and local partisans; the territory would thenceforth remain part of the state of Mongolia.[5]
In early 1936, Jodbajab's close friend and advisor Nima-odsor was assassinated by the Japanese in response to his Mongol nationalism and opposition to Japanese expansionism.[6] In response, Jodbajab, intimidated, began to collaborate with Japan's territorial designs on Inner Mongolia, sparking the ire of Mongol nationalists.[4] In his position as commander of the Mongol militia, he endorsed Prince Demchugdongrub's telegram announcing the establishment of the Mengjiang government.[7] In February that year, he and Li Shouxin seized control of the postal administration in six districts of eastern Chahar Province.[8] In November that year, he participated in the Suiyuan Campaign. In 1937 he was appointed one of two deputy commanders of the Mongol Pao An Tui (蒙古包安隊) along with Pao Yueh-ching (包悦卿).[9]
Jodbajab was captured during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in the late days of World War II and again taken to Ulan Bator as a prisoner, where he died.[4]
References
- ^ a b Asahi Shimbun 1941
- ^ a b c Нэгэн настнаас хүүгээ өршөөнө үү хэмээн Богд хаанд өргөсөн бичиг, National Archives of Mongolia, 2010-04-03, retrieved 2011-08-04
- ^ "给傅作义的信", People's Daily, 2006, retrieved 2011-08-04
{{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ a b c d Hyer 1983, p. 131
- ^ a b Atwood 2004, p. 132
- ^ Hyer 1983, p. 50
- ^ "Prince Teh goes over to Manchukuo", The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 1936-01-20
{{citation}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Split among Inner Mongols: Prince Teh's Warning to Suiyuan Governor", The Straits Times, 1936-03-04, retrieved 2011-08-04
- ^ "Volunteers in Northeast Endanger Bogus State", The China Monthly Review, no. 80–81, p. 406
Bibliography
- Hyer, Paul; Jagchid, Sechin (1983), A Mongolian living Buddha: biography of the Kanjurwa Khutughtu, SUNY Press, ISBN 9780873957137
- Atwood, Christopher (2004), "Dariganga", Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, New York: Facts on File, ISBN 9781438129228
- 最新支那要人伝, 朝日新聞社 [Asahi Shimbun Company], 1941, OCLC 23310651
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