Drawing upon an interview series with Yang Haiying, this article records the persecution of Mongolian noblewoman Qilinxhua and her family by the Chinese Communist Party, including her mother’s abduction, her brother’s entrapment and public execution, Cultural Revolution torture and forced labor, and her husband’s suspicious death.

September 4, 2020
The Reality of the Chinese Communist Party’s Rule over the Mongols—The Execution, Cultural Revolution, and Forced Labor Inflicted upon Qilinxhua and Her Family
The following is taken from an interview series with Yang Haiying, a professor at Shizuoka University and a cultural anthropologist, then being published in the Sankei Shimbun.
Since I have been overwhelmed with the task of introducing papers that must be read not only by the Japanese people but also by people throughout the world, I had read almost none of this series.
The following is taken from the previous day’s installment, which a friend of mine, one of the most widely read people I know, brought to my attention.
China and the Korean Peninsula, lands of unfathomable evil and plausible-sounding lies, are the only two places in the world that have continued to conduct anti-Japanese education.
This article proves that their fabricated propaganda concerning such matters as the Nanjing Massacre and the so-called comfort women—anti-Japanese propaganda disseminated throughout the world—consists entirely of transferring onto the Japanese military the atrocities they have inflicted upon their own peoples since ancient times.
The only people who take their vicious anti-Japanese propaganda at face value are readers of newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun, viewers of broadcasters such as NHK, and people like them throughout the world who are profoundly ignorant but nevertheless possess a form of pseudo-moralism.
A Mongolian Noblewoman’s Tragic Fate
“Yang has also heard accounts of experiences during the Cultural Revolution from many Mongolian women. He says that the account that left the strongest impression on him was that of Qilinxhua, who came from a Mongolian noble family.”
Qilinxhua was raised as the eldest daughter of a high-ranking Mongolian noble family in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, said to be directly descended from Genghis Khan.
Her elder brother served during the Republic of China era as secretary-general of a Kuomintang banner—the banner being a Mongolian administrative unit—and as a senior military officer. He was a legendary man who devoted himself to the independence of the Mongolian people until the Chinese Communist Party executed him at the age of twenty-nine.
After graduating from junior high school, Qilinxhua entered a prestigious school in Beijing. Possessing both intelligence and beauty, she became an object of admiration among Mongolian men.
During the youth of the brother and sister, Ordos was under the rule of the Republic of China, but Communist guerrillas were rampant. Amid the Chinese Civil War, it had entered a state of emergency described as “the Kuomintang’s realm by day and the Communist Party’s realm by night.”
“In August 1949, the People’s Liberation Army of the Chinese Communist Party invaded Ordos. The fate of the brother and sister took a dark turn.”
In order to bring the tens of thousands of Mongols living in Ordos under its control without fighting, the Chinese Communist Party attempted to win over Qilinxhua’s brother.
Alarmed by the brutality of the People’s Liberation Army, however, the brother and sister decided to flee to Taiwan together with the Kuomintang forces.
When it came to psychological tactics aimed at influential figures, however, the Chinese Communist Party was vastly more adept than the Mongols.
It immediately abducted and confined the siblings’ mother.
Just before boarding an international flight at Hohhot Airport, the brother and sister were forced to return to Ordos.
Having thus successfully brought the Mongols under its control, the Communist Party accused Qilinxhua’s brother in June 1951 of such offenses as “having contact with a female Kuomintang spy” and publicly executed him.
According to Qilinxhua’s investigation, her brother had merely danced with a woman at a Beijing dance hall to which the Communist Party had invited him. The woman herself was a People’s Liberation Army nurse planted there by the Chinese Communist Party.
Qilinxhua said, “After toothpicks had been thrust into my brother’s tongue, a towel was stuffed into his mouth, and he was taken to the execution ground in a condition that made it impossible for him to protest.”
Following her brother’s execution, Qilinxhua married her lover, a senior Mongolian Communist Party official. The Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966, then descended upon the young couple.
The chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Government, who was her husband’s superior, was branded “a dangerous ethnic separatist seeking to divide the state” and removed from office. Her husband was also imprisoned.
Qilinxhua herself was subjected to violence. Communist Party members of the “rebel faction” promoting the Cultural Revolution attempted to force her to confess that she and her husband belonged to “a black line supporting the chairman.”
Because she continued to deny the accusation, Qilinxhua was ordered to go to a punishment site, where she was assaulted by a group and even had her hair torn out.
During the forced labor that followed, her shoulders were dislocated every night to prevent her from escaping. Each morning, they were put back into place before she was driven to work.
Every New Year, she was given pig feed as her meal. A Han Chinese guard reportedly told her, “Mongolian ethnic separatists are more despicable than pigs.”
“The Cultural Revolution ended, and Qilinxhua was released from forced labor. Her husband was rehabilitated and returned to a senior official position, but the tragedy was not over.”
Qilinxhua’s husband was assigned responsibility for “the completion of the socialist legal system” in the National People’s Congress, China’s equivalent of a national parliament.
The project was headed by Peng Zhen, who had been overthrown during the Cultural Revolution. Reflecting upon the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, its objective was to establish a social system in which policy would be advanced according to the logic of law rather than the logic of the Communist Party.
In pursuing this ideal, Qilinxhua’s husband came into conflict with Han Chinese officials over a draft law concerning the administration of ethnic-minority autonomous regions.
Amid fierce arguments with Han officials who insisted that “the administration of autonomous regions must also be centered on the Han Chinese,” he was forcibly hospitalized on the day the bill was to be deliberated and never returned alive.
It is widely believed that he was poisoned.
(Interviewer: Masatoshi Ono)