Place names

Li-ma Chief's Office (里麻長官司)

A Yun-nan polity, apparently ruled by a Tai elite. The Yun-nan provincial gazetteer of the 19th century notes that Li-ma's population comprised A-chang people. The Tian-xia Jun-guo Li-bing-shu records it as being located to the west of Cha-shan (q.v.), beyond the Jin-sha River (Irrawaddy) (Gong Yin 1985; 235). This situates it in Upper Kachin state of modern Burma/Myanmar. See also Gerini (1913). For information on further Chinese sources relating to this polity, see Chen, Xie and Lu (1986; 424), Fang Guo-yu (1987; 993-94, 1064) and Gong Yin (1985; 234-35 and 1992; 653-54).