Information
Name: Chiang Hung State (Burma)
Type: Polity
Nation: chiang hung
Start: 1559
End: 1850
Groups:
Shan States
Chiang Hung State (Burma): All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
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.