Battle of Kokang
| Defense of Kokang | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Japanese invasion of Burma and the Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II | ||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||
 Yang Wenbing 楊文炳[2] |
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| 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 | ||||||
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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[7] |
The Defense of Kokang was the failed Japanese attempt to invade and occupy Kokang.
Background
[edit]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
[edit]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.[8][9][10]
Japan never managed to occupy Kokang unlike the rest of British Burma which it occupied.[11][12]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ Myint Myint Kyu (2018). Spaces of Exception. Vol. 1 of Critical perspectives on regional integration: Myanmar in transition. ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่. p. 59. ISBN 978-6163982179.
- ↑ Eng, Robert Y. (2023). "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.
- ↑ Eng, Robert Y. (2023). "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.
- ↑ Paluch, Gabrielle (2023). The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 30, 31. ISBN 978-1538131985.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 國史館檔案史料文物查詢系統，陸軍第五十九軍將士傷亡，典藏號：121-020100-0511
- ↑ "果敢族：流落缅甸的明朝汉人遗民". 凤凰资讯. 2009-08-27.
- ↑ Lee, Khoon Choy (2013). Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia. World Scientific. p. 252. ISBN 978-9814383448.
- ↑ Yang, Li (1997). The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier. Bookpress. p. 51. ISBN 064632859X.
- ↑ 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 978-1136125140.
- ↑ Paluch, Gabrielle (2023). The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 31. ISBN 978-1538131985.
- ↑ "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. April 2019.
Sources
[edit]- 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.
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External links
[edit]- "The 7th Armoured Brigade Engagements - 1942". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21.
- Topographic map of Yenangyaung
- Postcard "Battle of Yenangyaung"
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080306041004/http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/sun/honor.html
