Early History of the Shan/Tai Nan Chao

A distinctly Tai kingdom called Nan Chao (650-1253 AD) flourishing in what is now known as Yunnan and Sichuan province of China. This great kingdom of all Tais was founded over three hundred years before the Pagan Kingdom (10-13 AD), the first historical kingdom of Burma. Nan Chao maintained close relations with imperial China and the two neighbours enjoyed cultural exchange. (More)

EARLIER HISTORY

According to Shan chronicles, the majority race in the Shan State, who call themselves Tai, settled down in this present area and established the first kingdom,Mao, in BC. 93, the year counted as the beginning of the Shan Era. It was certainly in existence in AD. 568, according to western record.
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The Tai of the Shan State
By Nel Adams alias Sao Noan Oo

Although the Shan State is geographically in Burma, the Shans are different in their origin and language from the other groups in that country. For example, the Mons and the Burmans are ancient immigrant races from the Tibetan Plateau, whereas the Shans, like the Thais and Laotians, are descended from the Tais. These were people from the independent region of Yunnan Province in south-west China at a time when some of the provinces existed as a separate entity from mainland China. (More)

BUDDHISM IN SHAN STATE

There can be found many types of people, tradition and culture in Shan State. However, over ninety per cents of the population in Shan State are Buddhists and most of them are Shan people. (More)

The Tai Ethnic Migration and Settlement in Myanmar

SAI AUNG TUN
Yangon University

Introduction

I would like to express my thanks to the organizers of the Yunnan Institute for Nationalities, China and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan for making the necessary arrangements to enable me to attend the Kunming International Workshop on the "Dynamics of Ethnic Cultures Across National Boundaries in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asia: Relations, Societies and Languages." (More)

Shan (Syam) and Myanmar Relations as found in Hsipaw chronical
by Sai Aung Tun (Shan Scholar)

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