User:JonFernquest:Tai History
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The Tai people are split into many small ethnic groups arrayed west to east from the Ahom of the Upper Brahmaputra river in Assam, to the Shan of Burma, Hkamti Shan, Mohnyin (Chinese: Meng Yang, Tai: Mong Yang), Theinni (Chinese: Mu Bang, Tai: Hsenwi), Thibaw (Tai:Hsipaw, Onpaung), Nyaungshwe, Mone (Tai: Mong Nai), Chiang Rung (Sipsongpanna, Chinese: Cheli), Tai Dam and Tai Daeng of northern Vietnam, Lan Xang or Lan Chang in modern-day Laos, Lanna/Chiang Rai/Chiang Mai/Nan, and Ayutthaya/Sukhothai.
The ruling dynasty of the Nanzhao dynasty in Yunnan, China was once thought to be Tai, [1] but is now considered to be Lolo, an ethnic group that spoke a Tibeto-Burman language. [2]
The Tai ethnic groups are now considered to have originated in an area encompassing western Guangxi, southeastern Yunnan, northern Vietnam, and northeastern Laos[3]
In the first centuries A.D. the Chinese and Vietnamese control over the Red River Valley and split hte Tais into two groups. To the north of the Red River valley the Chuang of Guangxi separated from the Tho and Nung of Vietnam. [4]
"...in the first few centuries A.D., the Chinese and Vietnamese gradually tightened their administrative and military control...northwestward up the Red River Valley, they in effect divided the the "
[edit] References
- Backus, C. The Nan-chao Kingdom and T'ang China's China's Southwestern Frontier, Cambridge, 1981.
- Dore, Amphay "Did the Tai People Contribute to the Foundation of of the Nan Zhao Kingdom?: Some chronological Elements," Peninsule no. 23 (1991): 65-83
- Parker, E.H. "The Early Laos and China," China Review 19, 2 (1890).
- Stuart-Fox, Martin, The Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang: Rise and Decline, White Lotus, 1998.
- Terwiel, "The Origins of the T'ai Peoples Reconsidered," Oriens Extremus 25 (1978): 239-58.
- Thongchai Winichakul. Siam Mapped'Italic text. University of Hawaii Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8248-1974-8
