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The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: Their Recent History of Migration

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Over the centuries, the Hmong people have attracted the interest of Asian and Western observers — in particular that of the Han Chinese, the English missionaries in southwest China, and the French colonials in Indochina. It was, however, only after World War II that international interest in the Hmong of Southeast Asia began to intensify, particularly during the Indochina Wars of 1946–54 and 1963–75. American intelligence services produced or commissioned ethnographic studies on highland populations in Laos, Thailand, and both parts of Vietnam, and the Hmong were the subject of several of these studies.1

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Grant Evans (Reader in Anthropology) & Kuah Khun Eng (Associate Professor of Anthropology) (Reader in Anthropology) &  (Associate Professor of Anthropology)

  2. Department of English, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Christopher Hutton (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics) (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics)

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Michaud, J., Culas, C. (2000). The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: Their Recent History of Migration. In: Evans, G., Hutton, C., Eng, K.K. (eds) Where China Meets Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11123-4_6

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