Traditional Yi society in Yunnan was class based.

His third wife, Zhuo Lin, was the daughter of an industrialist in Yunnan Province.

Lu Han, a Kuomintang official in Nanjing, who was originally from Yunnan, was contacted by the VNQDD, and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and Military made direct contact with VNQDD for the first time, the party was reestablished in Nanjing with KMT help.

He organized VNQDD cells in Yunnan, the VNQDD in Yunnan, was in effect, a branch of the Chinese Kuomintang, individual units matched with KMT units.

The VNQDD was a supporter of the Kuomintang, and they were based in various areas like Yunnan and Guangxi.

Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand regain territories lost to the British and French ( i. e. the Shan States of Burma, Malaya, Singapore, & part of Yunnan, plus Laos & Cambodia ) Subsequently, Thailand undertook to ' assist ' Japan in its war against the Allies.

Zheng, born as Ma He ( 馬和 / 马和 ), was the second son of a Muslim family which also had four daughters, from Kunyang, present day Jinning, just south of Kunming near the southwest corner of Lake Dian in Yunnan.

He was the great great great grandson of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar, a Persian who served in the administration of the Mongolian Empire and was appointed governor of Yunnan during the early Yuan Dynasty.

His great-grandfather was named Bayan and may have been a member of a Mongol garrison in Yunnan.

In 1381, the year his father was killed, following the defeat of the Northern Yuan, a Ming army was dispatched to Yunnan to put down the army of the Mongol Yuan loyalist Basalawarmi during the Ming conquest of Yunnan.

During the Han dynasty, cotton was grown by non Chinese peoples in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.

The Hui troops under General Mu Ying, who was appointed Governor of Yunnan, were resettled in the region as part of a colonization effort.

In Yunnan Province, the palace of the Dai people's king was torched, and an infamous massacre of Hui Muslim people at the hands of the People's Liberation Army in Yunnan, known as the “ Shadian incident ”, reportedly claimed over 1, 600 lives in 1975.

Their leader, General Li Mi, was paid a salary by the ROC government and given the nominal title of Governor of Yunnan.

Eastern Kham in Greater Tibet was added to Sichuan, while much of what now constitutes northern Burma was added to Yunnan.

He and his followers brought into Yunnan an influx of Chinese influence, the start of a long history of migration and cultural expansion.

The Han Dynasty ( 205 BC – AD 220 ), seeking control over the Southern Silk Road running to Burma and India, brought small parts of Yunnan into China's orbit, though subsequent dynasties could do little to tame what was then a remote and wild borderland.

Bayinnaung's conquest and subjugation in 1555-1562 of Manipur, Bhamo, Zinme ( Chiang Mai ), Linzin ( Lan Xang ), and up the Taping and Shweli rivers in the direction of Yunnan brought back large numbers of skilled craftsmen into Burma.

On personal enquiry, he learnt that these goods were brought to eastern India ( Bengal ) through Yunnan, Burma and then carried all the way from eastern India to Bactria across India and Afghanistan along the Uttarapatha or the northern high road.

The VNQDD in Yunnan, Nanjing, and Canton successfully merged into a single party, via the Nanjing based " Overseas Bureau ".

The Mekong runs from the Tibetan Plateau through China's Yunnan province entering Northeastern Burma into Laos.

* 1253 – The Mongol Empire destroys the Kingdom of Dali ( Yunnan ) in Laos and incorporates the region into their empire.

* The Mongol Empire destroys the Kingdom of Dali in modern Yunnan and incorporates the region into their empire.

Renewed offensives in June and November evicted the Chinese into Yunnan.

The railway into Yunnan is a metre gauge line, the only such line to operate inside China ; it may, however, be converted to standard gauge.

In AD 225, the famed statesman Zhuge Liang led three columns into Yunnan to pacify the tribes.

In the 320s, the Cuan ( 爨 ) clan migrated into Yunnan.

Descended from ancient peoples known to the Chinese as the Yue and the Ai Lao, the Tai tribes began migrating into South-East Asia by the beginning of the 1st millennium, but large-scale migrations took place between the 7th and 13th centuries AD, especially from what is now Sipsongbanna, Yunnan Province and Guangxi.

During the war, this important route was the primary artery along which supplies travelled into Yunnan and then into the heart of China.

The Campaign involved Chinese troops, assisted by American forces, crossing the upper Salween on 11 May 1944 in order to drive Japanese forces from Yunnan into northern Burma.

Originally, the Tai, or Dai, lived closely together in modern Yunnan Province until political chaos and wars in the north at the end of the Tang and Song Dynasty and various nomadic peoples prompted some to move further south into modern Laos then Thailand.

Subotai's son, Uryankhadai, reduced neighboring peoples of Yunnan to submission and beat the Trần Dynasty in northern Vietnam into temporary submission in 1258.

He reduced to vassalage the Thai peoples who had migrated into Southeast Asia from the Yunnan region of southern China and established his suzerainty over the northern part of the Malay Peninsula.

Road transport infrastructure with Kunming in Yunnan province and with Chongqing in Sichuan ( China's wartime provisional capital ) and into Hunan were established.

Bolstered by these successes, Nanzhao expanded rapidly, first into Burma, then into the rest of Yunnan, down into northern Laos and Thailand, and finally, north into Sichuan.

During World War II, CNAC was headquartered in India, and flew supplies from Assam, India, into Yunnan, southwestern China through the Hump Route, after the Japanese blocked the Burma Road.

* Race intermedius Hume, 1873 is smaller in size and found in Bangladesh, west Cachar and into Myanmar and the Chin Hills into China ( Yunnan, Hainan ), Thailand, Indochina and the northern part of the Malay Peninsula.

Yunnan became part of the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC-220 AD ) during 2nd century BC.

During the Chinese Han Dynasty from about the third to the first centuries BCE, Guizhou was home to the powerful and independent Yelang polity, which covered parts of modern day Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

Local provincial warlords who seized or enhanced their power included Li Zongren of the New Guangxi Clique, Yan Xishan of the Shanxi clique, Feng Yuxiang and his Northwestern or Guominjun Clique, Tang Shengzhi in Hunan, Chiang Kuang-Nai in Fujian, Sheng Shicai of Xinjiang, Long Yun of Yunnan, Wang Jialie of Guizhou, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui of the Sichuan Clique, Han Fuqu of Shandong, Bie Tingfang ( 别廷芳 ) of Henan, the Ma Clique of Ma Bufang and his family in Qinghai, Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and Ma Zhongying in Gansu, Chen Jitang and his Cantonese Clique, Lu Diping ( 鲁涤平 ) of Jiangxi and Jing Yuexiu ( 井岳秀 ) of Shaanxi.

The love story begins when Aoxue, an urban girl of Han ethnicity living and studying in Beijing receives a snow bracelet sent from Lijiang, Yunnan Province.

Similarly, when Wang Mang first became emperor, his ambassadors visited the southwestern tribes ( in modern Guizhou, Yunnan, and southwestern Sichuan ), whose chieftains Han had largely granted the titles of princes.

In the wars against the Taiping ( 1851 – 64 ), Nian ( 1851 – 1868 ), Muslims of Yunnan ( 1856 – 1868 ) and the Northwest ( 1862 – 1877 ), the traditional Manchu armies proved themselves incompetent, and the court came to rely on local Han armies.

Allès wrote in the document " Notes on some joking relationships between Hui and Han villages in Henan " published by French Centre for Research on Contemporary China that " The major Muslim revolts in the middle of the nineteenth century which involved the Hui in Shaanxi, Gansu and Yunnan, as well as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, do not seem to have had any direct effect on this region of the central plain.

90 % of them are found in Gongshan, Fugong and Lanping counties in Yunnan Province, along with Lisu, Drung, Tibetan, Nakhi, Bai and Han.

As the Han Chinese expanded in southern China, the Yao retreated into the highlands between Hunan and Guizhou to the north and Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, and stretching into eastern Yunnan.

They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, and Hubei provinces, where its speakers have been relegated to being " hill people ," while the Han Chinese have settled the more fertile river valleys.

Allès wrote in the document " Notes on some joking relationships between Hui and Han villages in Henan " published by French Centre for Research on Contemporary China that " The major Muslim revolts in the middle of the nineteenth century which involved the Hui in Shaanxi, Gansu and Yunnan, as well as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, do not seem to have had any direct effect on this region of the central plain.

Teas grown in the Yunnan Province of China prior to the Han dynasty were typically exported in a compressed form similar to modern pu-erh tea.

Yunnan cuisine () or Dian cuisine (), is an amalgam of the cuisines of the Han Chinese and other ethnic minorities in China.

By 1380, Yunnan, which was still held by a Mongol prince, was considered to belong to China since the Han dynasty, and 250, 000 troops were deployed in an attack on the polity, taking Dali, Lijiang and Jinchi in 1382.