Chin Haw
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The Chin Haw or Chin Ho (Chinese: 秦霍; pinyin: Qín huò; Thai: จีนฮ่อ, RTGS: Chin Ho), also known locally as Yunnanese (Chinese: 雲南人, Thai: คนยูนนาน), are Chinese people who migrated to Thailand via Myanmar or Laos. Most of them were originally from Yunnan, a southern province of China.[1][2] They speak Southwestern Mandarin.
Migration
[edit]Generally, the Chin Haw can be divided into three groups, according to the time of their migration.[3]
- In the nineteenth century, the Qing army sent troops to suppress the rebellion in Yunnan, known as the Panthay Rebellion, which caused up to 1,000,000 lives lost - both civilians and soldiers. During this time, many people fled to the Shan state in Burma, then to northern Thailand.
- The Panthay Chinese merchants who traded between Yunnan, Burma, and Lan Na from their base in the Wa States. Some of them settled down along this trade route.
- After the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, remnants of the nationalist Kuomintang army fled to Burma and later established Kuomintang Chinese communities in Thailand
Religion
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The majority are Han Chinese and follow Chinese folk religion or Buddhism. Approximately one-third are Muslim, also known as Hui people or Hui Muslim.
Activities
[edit]The Chin Haw have traditionally been itinerant in their lifestyle, conducting long-distance caravan trade throughout the Thai-Burma-Laos frontier, southeast China, and northern Vietnam.[4]
They have engaged in the heroin trade. Ma Hseuh-fu, from Yunnan province, was one of the most prominent Chin Haw heroin drug lords. His other professions included trading in tea and being a hotelier.[5]
The Muslim Chin Haw are the same ethnic group as the Panthay in Burma, who are also descendants of Hui Muslims from Yunnan province, China.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]- Baan Haw Mosque
- Attaqwa Mosque
- Kokang people
- Kuomintang in Burma and spillover into Thailand
References
[edit]- ^ คอมพิวเตอร์ แม่ฮ่องสอน. khondoi.com (in Thai). Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
- ^ Forbes, Andrew; Henley, David (2011). Traders of the Golden Triangle. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B006GMID5K.
- ^ "Oknation" ประวัติการอพยพของจีนมุสลิม. oknation.net (in Thai). 10 April 2008. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ Forbes, Andrew D. W. (1987). "The "Čīn-Hǭ" (Yunnanese Chinese) Caravan Trade with North Thailand During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries". Journal of Asian History. 21 (1): 1–47. JSTOR 41930655.
- ^ Barlow, Joel John (25 February 2011). "Drugs and Cultural Survival in the Golden Triangle". Shan Herald. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
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