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It is generally accepted that China and the Chinese people have figured significantly in the history of the Thai kingdoms and the Thai people. The Thai of modem Thailand is the largest group of the ‘Tai’ family of peoples, distinguishable by a common cultural and linguistic identity:
The ‘Tai’ peoples today are widely spread over ‘several million square kilometers of the southeastern comer of the great land mass of Asia’. The others, who speak related Tai languages, arc the Lao in northeastern Thailand and Laos; the Shan in northeastern Burma; the upland Tai in Yunnan and northern Vietnam; and the Chuang in the Chinese provinces of Kwangsi and Kweichow. Although the people of modem Thailand are as mixed as the populations of many other nations, almost all would call themselves ‘Thai’, in the sense that they are citizens of Thailand, speakers of the Thai language, and participants in Thai culture.1
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Chinvanno, A. (1992). Review of Sino-Thai Relations before 1949. In: Thailand’s Policies towards China, 1949–54. St Antony’s / Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12430-5_2
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