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their autonomy with many chiefs retaining their traditional authority and participating in the
local administration. Following the end of the Qing Dynasty, the region was controlled by the
Muslim warlord Ma Qi until the Northern Expedition of the Republic of China, which con-
solidated the central control in 1928 and created the Qinghai province. In 1932, Tibet invaded
Qinghai in an attempt to occupy the southern part of the province. e army of Ma Bufang
defeated the Tibetans. When most of eastern China was ravaged by the Second Sino-Japanese
War and the Chinese Civil War, Qinghai was relatively untouched. On January 1, 1950, the
People’s Government of the Qinghai Province was declared ...