Date 760 Deaths thousands | Target Arabs and Persians Location Yangzhou, China | |
Perpetrators rebel army under Tian Shengong (T'ien Shen-kung) 田神功 | ||
In the Yangzhou massacre, Chinese rebels under Tian Shengong engaged in a slaughter of foreign Arab and Persian merchants in 760 AD during the Tang dynasty in Yangzhou.
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Background
The foreign merchants and traders incurred xenophobic feelings among the Chinese population, and they were scapegoated as the Tang dynasty declined.
Massacre
The massacre took place during the An Shi Rebellion. Arab and Persian merchants in the city were massacred in the thousands when Tian Shengong's (T'ien Shen-kung) 田神功 rebel soldiers entered the city. The merchants were targeted for being foreign and for their wealth. (大食波斯賈胡死者數千人 ; 殺商胡波斯數千人)
Related events
In the Guangzhou massacre in 879, 120,000 Muslim Arabs, Persians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians were killed by the Chinese rebel leader Huang Chao.