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Name: Chiang Hung (China)

Type: Polity

Start: 1851 AD

End: 1949 AD

Nation: chiang hung

Parent: china

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It was a state founded in 1180 by King Pagna Jueang in today's Chinese prefecture of Xishuangbanna, in southern Yunnan. It was named after the capital, today's Jinghong. It was a Shan State, and as such it was either a Chinese or Burmese vassal for most of its history. It was finally dissolved and inglobated into China in 1949.

Establishment


  • January 1851: Empire of China (c. 1850-1949).
  • Chronology


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  • March 1946: Agreement between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and France where the latter recognized Vietnam as a sovereign state.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1950: Chiang Hung was dissolved in 1949 with the creation of the People's Republic of China, when the last ruler Dao Shixun was deposed and given a prestigious position in the institutions of Yunnan province.
  • Selected Sources


  • Flemming, Thomas / Steinhage, Axel / Strunk, Peter (1995): Chronik 1946: Tag für Tag in Wort und Bild, Chronik-Verlag/Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag,p. 38
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