Place names

Meng-mi (孟彌)

The MSL notes Meng-mi as a "Pacification Commission" of Yun-nan, established as a separate administration as a result of a dispute with Mu-bang (q.v.). It is the polity known in Tai and Burmese sources as Mongmit or Momiet, and is occasionally referred to as Mo-miek. The Du-shi Fang-yu Ji-yao notes that its territory extended "east to Mu-bang Pacification Superintendency, west to the territory of the Ava-Burma Pacification Superintendency and north to the territory of the Man-mo Pacification Office" (Gu Zu-yu; juan 119). It was centred on what is today still known as Möng Mit on a tributary of the Shweli River in Shan State, Burma/Myanmar. For some relevant literature, see Elias (1876; 65-70), Mangrai (1981a), Phayre (1967) and Scott and Hardiman (1900; Part II, Vol.2, 416-17). For information on further Chinese sources relating to this polity, see Dao Yong-ming (1989; 363-75), Fang Guo-yu (1987; 996) and Gong Yin (1985; 216-17 and 1992; 635-36).