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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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d of the fourth century B.C. it had carried itssway over the border States near the sea in the east,the Ngvi (Wt4) and Yueh; to the Nan-ling mountainsin the south; over the larger part of Ho-nan on thenorth, and gradually extended westwards. The latterextension covered the east of Ssii-chuan, and thewhole of Kuei-chou provinces; it reached also thecentre of Yun-nan, and perhaps more south, underthe name of Tien or Tsen Kingdom, which was severedfrom its suzerain country (and remained under Shanrule) when the Tsin of Shensi, then growing into theEmpire, crossed the Yang-tze in 279 b.c. The name of Tien or Tsen—the only State whichwas maintained as a continuation of that of T^su^ whenthe latter was destroyed by its rival claimant, the Em-pire, the Tsin in 224 e.g.—has perhaps survived in thatof the Shan State of Hsen-wi^ the Tsen-pho of the Sia-mese. The writer of the Chronicle of the Hsen-hseKingdom—not the present small Hsen-wi State— The Languages of China before the Chinese.
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300 40O 500 SKETCH MAI SHOWIXc; THE SHAN STAIES. I I li 4 KINGDOM OF PSU 5 recognised this fact. It is not by accident tiiat whatEnglish writers call the Mao Kingdom of the Northern Shans, was named Hsen-hse, for it wassimply the extension in the west of this Tien or TsenState, itself a continuation of the Tsu, if de Lacou-perie is right in his conjecture. Dr. J. N. Gushing, and other authorities on theShans, say that as late as the latter part of the fifthcentury of our era the Emperor of China recogniseda Shan of the Pan-hu tribe, as King of Siang-yang,Hu-peh^ and governor of King-chou.^ His realm con-tained eight thousand villages, and reached northwardto near the Yellow River. Later still—a.d. 566—a Chinese Emperor of theNorthern Chao dynasty protected the passages of theYang-tze west of I-chang, with ramparts to preventthe raids of barbarians, who were apparently Shans,the regnant race throughout that region. The Kingof Siang-yang was, at least nominally, under theEmperor, bu

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