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JINGHONG
, Xishuangbanna's small and easy-going "Dawn Capital", first became a seat of power under the Dai warlord
Bazhen
, who drove the Bulang and Hani tribes off these fertile central flatlands and founded the independent kingdom of Cheli in 1180. It has been maintained as an administrative centre ever since. There was a moment of excitement in the late nineteenth century when a battalion of British soldiers marched in during a foray from Burma, but they soon decided that Jinghong was too remote to be worth the effort of defending. An attempt to forge a highway through Xishuangbanna during the 1950s (only recentl...
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