Jodbajab

Jodbajab as pictured in a 1941 Japanese "who's who" biographical dictionary of China[1]

Jodbajab (1873 or 1877–1945) was a military officer and government official in the Inner Mongolia area under China's late Qing Dynasty 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:

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 Jodubjab'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 (1915).[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 March 1934, Jodubjab was appointed a member of the Nanjing government's newly established Mongolian Local Autonomous Political Committee, along with Kesingge, Serengdongrub, Ünenbayan, and Nima-odsor of the Kuomintang, and various league and banner nobility such as Altanochir, Darijaya, and Gorjorjab (郭尔卓尔扎布).[6] However, in early 1936, Nima-odsor, who was Jodubjab's close friend and advisor, was assassinated by the Japanese for his Mongol nationalism and opposition to Japanese expansionism.[7] In response, Jodubajab, 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 Demchigdongrob's telegram announcing the establishment of the Mengjiang government.[8] In February that year, he and Li Shouxin seized control of the postal administration in six districts of eastern Chahar Province.[9] 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 (蒙古保安隊) along with Pao Yueh-ching (包悦卿).[10]

Jodubajab 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

  1. 1 2 3 Asahi Shimbun 1941
  2. 1 2 3 Нэгэн настнаас хүүгээ өршөөнө үү хэмээн Богд хаанд өргөсөн бичиг – Letter to Bogd Khan requesting mercy, National Archives of Mongolia, 2010-04-03 [orig. 1914?], retrieved 2011-08-04 Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. 1 2 Mao, Zedong (2006 [orig. 1936-08-14]), "给傅作义的信 — A letter to Fu Zuoyi", People's Daily, retrieved 2011-08-04 Check date values in: |date= (help); an English translation is available in Schram, Stuart R. (1992), Mao's road to power: revolutionary writings 1912-1949, Volume 1, M. E. Sharpe, p. 317, ISBN 978-1-56324-457-5.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Hyer 1983, p. 131
  5. 1 2 Atwood 2004, p. 132
  6. ↑ Bolig 2004
  7. ↑ Hyer 1983, p. 50
  8. ↑ "Prince Teh goes over to Manchukuo", The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 1936-01-20, retrieved 2011-08-04
  9. ↑ "Split among Inner Mongols: Prince Teh's Warning to Suiyuan Governor", The Straits Times, 1936-03-04, retrieved 2011-08-04
  10. ↑ "Volunteers in Northeast Endanger Bogus State", The China Monthly Review (80–81), p. 406

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