The question of ‘China’ in Burmese chronicles

• Main Author: Goh, Geok Yian
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107179; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25507; http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022463409990282
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Historical studies of Burma–China relations have emphasised warfare, seen from the perspective of Chinese sources. One commonly studied event is the thirteenth-century Mongol invasion of Bagan. Burmese sources describe the flight of King Narathihapate (1257–87) from the Mongols, thus earning the Bur...