1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Village and the International Relateions of the Transnational Ethnic Group of the Thais
Project/Area Number |
06610333
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Asian history
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Research Institution | Ibaraki University |
Principal Investigator |
YOSHIZAWA Minami Ibaraki University, the Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (80086941)
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Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1995
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Keywords | Thais (Tais) / Sip Song Panna / Shan States / Kengcheng, / Kengtung / The Mekong / Chiefdom / Southeast Asia |
Research Abstract |
1. The Thais live in five countries along the Upper Mekong-West-North Vietnam, Upper Laos, North Tailand, West-North China (sip Song Panna), and Myanma (the Shan States). All these areas belong to objects of this research. For two years I collected many materials about them. Specially collected chinese documents are massive. And many books and reports by Europeans such as A.Pavie, G.Scott, W.C.Dodd, and W.J.Archera are very important. 2. In the latter half of the 19th century, with the whole of Burma in British hands and the whole of Vietnam and Cambodia under the French the area of potential conflict between the two colonial powers now centerd on the Thais living land. The Anglo-French rivalry defined the Lao-Burmese frontier and the Thai-Buremese frontier. Moreover bouderies between China and British Burma, China and French Indo-China were defined too. In this international relations the area of the Thais was divided into five nations against the Thai people's will. 3. Nevertheless the interrelationship on trade and family between many Thais village communities were closely kept. That was economy and politics of their chieftainship. The communities were not entirely cut off from the outside world. One historical example was the relationship between Kengcheng in Sip Song Panna (China) and Kengtung in the Shan (Burma). They united in marriage, and often united in the struggle against the common enemies. But they appealed to arms in the face of a divorce.
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Research Products
(2 results)