Descendants of Ming royalist’s fleeing the Manchu conquerors in China, the Khokant are ethnic Chinese who live in a thin strip of land along Myanmar’s north eastern Shan State. Like many of the ethnic communities they have endured decades of conflict, though unlike many of the ethnic groups their language and literature has escaped relatively […]
The Kachin are among the latest arrivals to Myanmar, descending south from the mountains that border the north of Myanmar with China at some point in the 16th or 17th century. They travelled east and west, to Yunnan province in China and to India …
The Karen, living along Myanmar’s eastern border with Thailand are notable for being the earliest converts to Christianity in Myanmar and for enduring the longest civil conflict in Myanmar …
The Mon are the oldest civilisation in the South East Asia region. Once a powerful empire whose lands and influence stretched across the Indo-China mainland, they are responsible for the introduction of Buddhism to the region and can attest to the oldest script in the region dating back to at least the 500’s AD …
The smallest of the three main ethnic communities from Kayah State on Myanmar’s eastern border with Thailand, the Kayaw’s literature and culture committee is also the oldest …