Kokang Chinese

The Kokang people (Chinese: 果敢華人; pinyin: Guǒgǎn Huárén or 果敢族 (Guǒgǎn zú); Burmese: ကိုးကန့်လူမျိုး) are Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese[1] native to Kokang in Myanmar, administered as the Kokang Self-Administered Zone.

[3] Most Kokang are descendants of Chinese speakers who migrated to what is now Shan State, Myanmar in the 18th century.

In the mid-17th century, the Yang clan, a Chinese military house that fled alongside Ming loyalists from Nanjing to Yunnan, and later migrated to the Shan States in eastern Myanmar, formed a feudal state called Kokang.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is a Kokang insurgent group.

In August 2009 they clashed with Tatmadaw soldiers in a conflict fanned by controversial interests known as the 2009 Kokang incident,[4] followed by further skirmishes during the 2015 Kokang offensive.