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results and conclusions for publication; hence the work was never 

 finished. 



The Chinese of West China, especially of Szechwan Province, are 

 an amalgamation of peoples from north, east, and south China, from 

 virtually every province and every group including the Hakkas. Out- 

 side the north gate of Chengtu a colony was found whose ancestors 

 had come from Canton generations ago and who still spoke Cantonese. 

 One of the greatest migrations to Szechwan took place after the death 

 of the aforementioned Chang Hsien-chung, the tyrant who killed or 

 frightened away most of the population of Szechwan near the end of 

 the Ming dynasty. A large proportion of the people of Szechwan, 

 when asked whence their ancestors came, reply that they came from 

 Hu-kwang, that is, Hupeh and Hunnan, Kwangtung and Kwangsi. 



The tribespeople of West China are divided by Bourne and Davies 

 into three groups. Bourne divides them into Mon-kmer, Shan, and 

 Miao. Davies divides them into Mon-kmer, Shan, and Tibeto-Burman. 

 Under the Mon-kmer Davies includes the Miao-yao, the Mon-chia, 

 and the Wa-paloung groups. Under the Shans he places all groups 

 speaking the Shan or the Tai dialects, and under the Tibeto-Burman 

 family he includes the Hsi-fan, the Lolo, and the Kachin groups. 

 (Couling, 1917, pp. 1-2; Davies, 1909, pp. 331-347)- Dr. Cheng 

 Te-k'un (i945d, pp. 1-2) divides the non-Chinese into the Tibeto- 

 Burman family, the Tai-shan family, and the Miao-P'u family, and 

 each of these he subdivides into several groups. Rev. E. C. Bridge- 

 man, in an article which is a translation from the Chinese with annota- 

 tions (1859, pp. 1-26), gives sketches of 82 tribes, presumably all of 

 them in Kweichow Province. 



Rev. John B. Kuhn, a missionary of the China Inland Mission, be- 

 gan on August 2, 1942, a 5-month journey through Yunnan Province 

 for the purpose of ascertaining the number of aboriginal tribes in 

 that area. In a pamphlet which he published he reports that he actually 

 found 100 tribes, mentioning by name 40 tribes of Lolos, 8 of Tai, 3 

 of Min-chia, 4 of Miao, 5 of Tibetan, 21 of Burmese, and 4 of un- 

 classified origin (Kuhn, John B., pp. 22-26). 



As for Sikang, Mr. Chuang Hsiieh-pen (1940) mentions the 

 Hai-fan and the Lolos as the largest groups, and the Mo-shi 

 (Mo-so?), the Miao, and the Tai as lesser groups. In western 

 Szechwan there are at least the Hsi-fan, the Chia-jung, the Ch'iang, 

 the Wa-Ssu, the Hei-shui, the Lu-hwa, and the Bo-lo-tzu. There are 

 other such groups in Hunan, Shensi, Kansu, and Chinghai. It is safe 



