Kokang Chinese

 ( Kokang ) 

The Kokang people (; ) are Mandarin Chinese-speaking Han ChineseBurma has other, non-Kokang populations of Han Chinese; depending on what area of China they originally immigrated from, these populations speak Yunnanese, Hokkien language, Cantonese, Hakka language, and Hainanese. See

native to Kokang in Myanmar. The Kokang people belong to the Sino-Tibetan family and are an officially recognized ethnic group of the Myanmar.Ministry of Immigration and Population (2015). "List of 135 National Races of Myanmar."

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Etymology The name Kokang derives from the Burmese , which itself derives from the Shan language (kāo, "nine") + (kúun, "family") or (kǎang, "guard").

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Distribution In 1997, it was estimated that the Kokang Chinese, together with more recently immigrated Han Chinese from Yunnan, China, constituted 30 to 40 percent of Myanmar's ethnic Chinese population. They constitute around 0.1% of Myanmar's population.

Mya Than (1997). 9789813055582, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 9789813055582

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History Most Kokang are descendants of Chinese speakers who migrated to what is now Shan State, Myanmar in the 18th century. In the mid-17th century, the Yang clan formed a feudal state called Kokang in the Shan States. From the 1960s to 1989, the area was ruled by the Communist Party of Burma, and after the dissolution of that party in 1989 it became a special region of Myanmar.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is a Kokang insurgent group. In August 2009 they clashed with Tatmadaw soldiers in a conflict fanned by controversial interests known as the 2009 Kokang incident, Chinese Dam Builders Fan Conflict in Burma followed by further skirmishes during the 2015 Kokang offensive.

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Notable Kokang people

• Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai: King of Kokang
• Lo Hsing Han
• Olive Yang
• Pheung Kya-shin

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See also

• Chinese people in Myanmar
• Kokang Self-Administered Zone

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