#Lanna and the world

Lanna and Britain: Teak, Treaties and Burma Next Door
Lanna and Britain: teak, the rupee and two Chiang Mai treaties, once British Burma became Lanna's neighbour. Follow a log to the sawmill an…

Lanna and France: 1893 and the Mekong
Lanna and France: how the Mekong became a border, from the 1893 Paknam crisis to the 1904 line drawn beside Nan, with a map to step through…

Lanna and Ming China: Envoys, Elephants and the Yunnan Road
Lanna and Ming China in the Ming court records: elephants sent to Yunnan for 120 years, seals and tallies, the 1405 clash and the last miss…

Lanna and Sri Lanka: The Road of Buddhism
Lanna and Sri Lanka never fought or traded much, yet Buddhism tied them together. Follow monks, scriptures and a bodhi tree from Lanka to C…

Lanna and Japan: From Trade Ships to 1941
How did Lanna and Japan meet? From trade ships and the Japanese village at Ayutthaya to Japanese troops in the North in 1941–45 and the mem…

Lanna and the Portuguese: Mercenaries and Guns
Lanna and the Portuguese met through war and firearms. See how guns reached Lanna by two roads, overland from China and by sea with Portugu…

Lanna and the Mongols: The 1253 Shock and Chiang Mai
Lanna and the Mongols: from the fall of Dali in 1253 to a failed 20,000-man Yuan campaign, then envoys and gifts. The Yuan record read besi…

Lanna and Đại Việt: The War of 1479–80
Lanna and Đại Việt: in 1479–80 Lê Thánh Tông's army invaded Lan Xang and reached Nan. The same war in Chinese, Lanna, Lao and Vietnamese re…

Lanna and the World: Human History and Lanna's Place in It
Lanna and the World sets Lanna on one timeline with all of human history, from 300,000 years ago to today: who was where in the same year, …