elisabeth allès wrote that the relationship between hui muslim and han peoples continued normally in the henan area, with no ramifications or interagency from the muslim revolts of other areas. allès wrote in the document "notes on some joking relationships between hui and han villages in henan" published by the french center for research on contemporary china that "the major muslim revolts in the middle of the nineteenth century which involved the hui in shaanxi, gansu and yunnan, as well as the uyghurs in xinjiang, do not seem to have had any direct effect on this region of the central plain." hui muslim officer and official ma xinyi served the qing dynasty during the dungan revolt.