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Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais) are Chinese descendants in Thailand.Thai Chinese are the largest minority group in the country and the second largest overseas Chinese community [4] in the world with a population of approximately 7–10 million people, accounting for 11–14 percent of the total population of the country as of 2012.
The history of Chinese immigration to Thailand dates back many centuries, and the specific Chinese ethnic groups which made their way to Thailand are numerous, although there is a greater concentration of Chinese from the southern provinces due to their geographic proximity to Thailand. The Chinese are part of the greater Sino-Tibetan ethnicity ...
Xianluo (Chinese: 暹羅) was the Chinese name for the Ayutthaya Kingdom, merged from Suphannaphum city-state, centered in modern-day Suphan Buri; and Lavo city-state, centered in modern-day Lop Buri. To the Thai, the name of their country has mostly been Mueang Thai. [1] The country's designation as Siam by Westerners likely came from the ...
Wats became centers of Thai education and culture, while during this period the Chinese first began to settle in Thailand and soon began to establish control over the country's economic life. [ 142 ] The Chinese were not obliged to register for corvée duty, so they were free to move about the kingdom at will and engage in commerce.
Names of people in this category are sorted by given name, according to Thai practice. The sortkey of this category is maintained by User:cewbot . Citizens of Thailand , or people who were born in Thailand with full or partial Chinese ancestry.
King Rama VI also imposed the idea of "Thai-ness" (khwam-pen-thai) on his subjects and strictly defined what was "Thai" and "un-Thai". Authors of this period re-wrote Thai history from an ethno-nationalist viewpoint, [49] disregarding the fact that the concept of ethnicity had not played an important role in Southeast Asia until the 19th century.
A royal monument of King Taksin the Great. Taksin was born on 17 April 1734, in Ayutthaya. [clarification needed] Taksin had Chinese Teochew, Tai-Chinese and Mon ancestry.His father, Yong Saetae (Thai: หยง แซ่แต้; Chinese: 鄭鏞 Zhèng Yōng), who worked as a tax-collector, [7] was of ethnic Teochew descent from Chenghai District, Shantou, Guangdong, China.
Traditional Thai paintings often depict scenes from Buddhist mythology, literature, history, or daily life, blending realism and symbolism. They are mostly found in temples and palaces, where they serve as decorations and illustrations of religious texts. [ 46 ]