Yunnan Ethnic Groups

Mien, also spelled Mian, also called Iu Mien, (in China) Yao, (in Vietnam) Dao, Zao, or Man, peoples of southern China and Southeast Asia. In the early 21st century...

A small ethnic minority in North ThailandHistory and CultureThe Tai Ya are a Tai ethnic group and most of them live in Yunnan province, China. In China, people call...

Lolo is a branch of Yi ethnic people from China. The appellations of Lolo, Lolopu, etc. are related to the Yi people’s worship of the tiger, as “lo” in...

The Lanten of Laos, numbering 3,800, are No Longer Unreached. They are part of the Yao-Mien people cluster within the Southeast Asian Peoples affinity bloc. This people group is...

Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages. There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest...

The Palaung ( ; Thai: ปะหล่อง, also written as Benglong Palong) or Ta’ang are a Mon–Khmer ethnic minority found in Shan State of Burma, Yunnan Province of China...

The Achang (Chinese: 阿昌族; pinyin: Āchāngzú), also known as the Ngac’ang (their own name) is an ethnic group.They are one of tibeto burman language speaking people. They form one...

The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, ; Chinese: 佤族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the...

The Zaiwa are the largest subgroup of the official Jingpo nationality in China. The Zaiwa, who are called Xiaoshan, meaning “small mountain” by the Chinese, have a fearsome reputation....

The Lisu people (Lisu: ꓡꓲ‐ꓢꓴ ꓫꓵꓽ; Burmese: လီဆူလူမျိုး, ; Chinese: 傈僳族; pinyin: Lìsùzú; Thai: ลีสู่) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Myanmar (Burma), southwest China,...