Two weeks after its first known execution of a Chinese hostage, extremist group Islamic State has published a war chant in Mandarin that calls on the country’s Muslims – or at least its Muslim men -- to take up arms.

The four-minute song was released Al-Hayat Media Center, Islamic State’s media arm, and distributed through Twitter and messaging app Telegram on Sunday, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors and tracks radical groups online. Like many of the group’s chants, known as nasheeds, the track is slickly produced and hypnotically infectious, with lyrics that extol death in service of Islam.

“We are Mujahid, our shameless enemy panics before us,” a male voice, enhanced with a digital echo, sings in the chorus. “Our dream is to die fighting on this battlefield.”

Recruitment efforts by Middle East jihadist groups are an increasing cause for concern in the world’s most populous country, though it's rare for such materials to appear in Mandarin. Most instead target members of China's Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim Uighur minority. A sporadically violent separatist movement made up of Uighurs seeks to establish an independent state in the group's homeland in the northwestern Chinese territory of Xinjiang.

In June, Islamic State released a video of an elderly man describing in a Turkic language his decision to join the group after decades of oppression in China and the death of his son in Syria. The video later shows what appear to be Uighur children in military clothing being interviewed about traveling to join Islamic State.