Sibsongpanna

The Bangkok government indicated real concern over the developments in Communist China’s Yunnan province. Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.

1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263

The lack of knowledge of Chinese was regarded as a major obstacle for the imposition of Chinese rule, and already in 1912 the head of the Chinese government of Simao and Puer reported to the provincial government about the urgent need for developing Chinese education in Sipsong Panna (Xiao 1993: 125).

[1999, Mette Halskov Hansen, “History of Chinese Education in Sipsong Panna”, in Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94

A further indication of Tai Buddhist relations to the environment may be gained from the Tai of Sibsongpanna in southern China.

2000, Lindsay Falvey, Thai Agriculture: Golden Cradle of Millennia, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL

A company has conducted a study on Job's tears for the last 13 years. Initially, Job's tears were grown in Sibsongpanna, Yunnan in China (black variety) and also some small quantities were produced in Thailand.

2005, Linkham Douangsavanh, Enhancing Sustainable Development of Diverse Agriculture in Lao People's Democratic Republic, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39

There was just as much chaos and confusion within the heavenly lands themselves. When Hunan province, the old state of Chu, declared its independence, other provinces followed suit, each rising up to throw off the Manju Qing. They were not alone. Seeing an opportunity to secure their own independence, a number of old barbarians also rose up to claim states of their own: in the lower south-west, a tribe to the south of Yunnan declared a kingdom of Sipsong Panna, Xishuangbanna to the Han Chinese.

[2017, Jeanne-Marie Gescher, “The Edges of Order”, in Becoming China: The Story Behind the State, Bloomsbury Caravel, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 501