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Chinese in Bhamo, 1900. In the Burmese language, the Chinese are called Tayoke (တရုတ်, tarut, pronounced) and formerly spelt တရုပ် (tarup).The earliest evidence of this term dates to the Bagan Era, in the 13th century, during which it referred to the territory and a variety of peoples to the north and northeast of Myanmar.
The government of Myanmar does not recognise several ethnic groups as being among the list of 135 officially recognised ethnic groups: Anglo-Burmese people; Burmese Chinese; Panthay [10] Burmese Indians [11] Taungtha people; Rohingya people; Burmese gorkhas/Nepalese; Burmese Mizos; Jews; Bamar Muslims (Pathi) Thaungtha is similar with rabain
Lim Chin Tsong 林振宗 (1867–1923) (Hokkien), First Overseas Chinese Tycoon in Myanmar Peter Chou Win Than 周永明 (Yunnanese) (born 1956), Former CEO, President and Co-founder of HTC [ 3 ] Serge Pun Theim Wai 潘继泽 (born 1953), Businessman and Chairman of the Serge Pun & Associates Group (SPA Group)
A Chin scholar, Lian Uk in 1968, define the term “Chin” and similar names as “people”, further stating that the name “Chinland” means Ourland. Chin people are scattered between three countries, namely India, Burma (Myanmar) and Bangladesh. Some of the Chin live in Rakhine State and most of them are Cumtu, Asho, Kongtu and Laitu.
The Wa States in an early 20th century The Imperial Gazetteer of India map.. The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤 族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China ...
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, a Chinese military house that fled alongside Ming loyalists from Nanjing to Yunnan, and later migrated to the Shan States in eastern Myanmar, formed a feudal state called Kokang.
Burmese people, Officially Myanma people (Burmese: မြန်မာလူမျိုး) are citizens from Myanmar (Burma), irrespective of their ethnic or religious background. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic , multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.
Among the missionaries, James Outram Fraser (1880–1938) was the first missionary to reach the Lisu people in China. Another missionary who evangelized Lisu people in Myanmar was Thara Saw Ba Thaw (1889–1968). James Fraser and Saw Ba Thaw together created the Lisu alphabet in 1914. [33]