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Defense of Kokang
Part of Japanese invasion of Burma and the Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II
Date1942
Location
Kokang, British Burma,
Result Han Chinese Kokang victory[1]
Belligerents

Republic of China

Empire of Japan Japan

Commanders and leaders
Republic of China (1912–1949) Yang Wenbing 楊文炳[2] Empire of Japan
Strength
Kokang self defense force[3] (under the Chinese Expeditionary Force 11th Army Group) of 1,500 men[4] 6,000 Japanese[5]
Casualties and losses
1 Kokang killed, 4 or 5 ROC troops killed in the first Kokang surprise attack. 80 Japanese killed in the first Kokang surprise attack against a Japanese advanced invasion party. 1,000 Japanese killed in total in their failed attempt to attack Kokang[6]


The Defense of Kokang was the failed Japanese attempt to invade and occupy Kokang.


Background

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Kokang was a Han Chinese ruled and populated chiefdom (Tusi) founded by a member of the Ming dynasty imperial guard at Nanjing in the 17th-18th centuries which came under British Burma in 1897 after a border agreement between the Qing dynasty and Britain.


Battle

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Kokang Self-Defence Force under the command of the 11th Army Group of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. They killed 80 Japanese and Shan in an ambush attack on a temple and defeated the attempted Japanese invasion of Kokang.[7][8][9]


Japan never managed to occupy Kokang unlike the rest of British Burma which it occupied.[10][11]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Myint Myint Kyu (2018). Spaces of Exception. Vol. 1 of Critical perspectives on regional integration: Myanmar in transition. ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่. p. 59. ISBN 6163982177.
  2. ^ Eng, Robert Y. "Chinese Principalities in the Borderlands of Southeast Asia: Historical Significance and Memory of Hà Tiên, Lanfang, and Kokang". World History Connected. 17 (3). doi:10.13021/whc.v17i3.3678.
  3. ^ Eng, Robert Y. "Chinese Principalities in the Borderlands of Southeast Asia: Historical Significance and Memory of Hà Tiên, Lanfang, and Kokang". World History Connected. 17 (3). doi:10.13021/whc.v17i3.3678.
  4. ^ Paluch, Gabrielle (2023). The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 30, 31. ISBN 1538131986.
  5. ^ Simms, Sao Sanda (2017). AHP 48 GREAT LORDS OF THE SKY: BURMA'S SHAN ARISTOCRACY. Vol. 48 of Asian Highlands Perspectives. Asian Highlands Perspectives. p. 221.
  6. ^ "果敢族：流落缅甸的明朝汉人遗民". 2009 08 27. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |news= ignored (|newspaper= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Lee, Khoon Choy (2013). Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia. World Scientific. p. 252. ISBN 9814383449.
  8. ^ Yang, Li (1997). The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier. Bookpress. p. 51. ISBN 064632859X.
  9. ^ Kratoska, Paul H. (2013). "3 Between China and the Japanese: Wartime Affairs in Kokang State and the Failure of the Spiers Mission". In Kratoska, Paul H. (ed.). Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire. Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 1136125140.
  10. ^ Paluch, Gabrielle (2023). The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 31. ISBN 1538131986.
  11. ^ "果敢历史：一座纪念碑，记录的是这个民族的英雄气节". 果敢资讯网. 果敢资讯网. 04, 2019. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)


Sources

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  • Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. Pg. 377
  • Slim, William (1956). Defeat into Victory. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-29114-5. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
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