Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

La Montgomery here, China History Podcast, with Part 2 of the Thai Chinese.

We're still deep in the Ayyudia Kingdom.

We saw last time the fortunes of the ethnic Chinese living in Thailand rose and fell with the political winds that sometimes blew in conflicting directions in the kingdom.

You can't tell the story of the Chinese of Ayutia without the Thai history that goes along with it.

At this time 17th 18th century the Chinese Khmer, Malay, Lau, and Mon.

Made up the bulk of the non-tai ethnic communities.

Last time in part one, I may have gone overboard

with my oversimplification of the earliest beginnings of the

nascent Siamese state, I may have given short shrift to the Indian influence.

These Indianized kingdoms like the Khmer and the Mon, who were historically, culturally and

linguistically more tied to India than anywhere?

Well they had a very big early influence in Siam during the kingdom that preceded

Ayutia, that being the Sukhothai, 1238, 1438. The earliest Chinese to sail to Siam that we know of at least who started

planting roots there came during this Sukhothai period that was contemporaneous with the southern Son, Jain, and early Ming dynasties.

We started jumped all over the place in part one, hope nobody got car sick.

There was so much going on by this time in the world

16th to 18th centuries. Not like B. C. E. always digging for scraps of information.

I'm trying not to stray too far from the topic of the Thai Chinese,

but it's been a slipperier slope than I expected. We know about the impact of certain upheavals

that happen during the Gwen, Ming, and Ching,

that did much to stoke the fires of migration during certain decades.

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