Editing Yunnan (section)

=== Dali Kingdom and Yuan dynasty ===
[[File:Dalisanta.jpg|thumb|The [[Three Pagodas]] of Dali|alt=Refer to caption|left]]

In 937, [[Duan Siping]] overthrew the Dayining Kingdom and established the [[Dali Kingdom]]. The kingdom was conquered by the [[Mongol Empire]] in 1253 after Dali King Duan Xingzhi defected to the Mongols. The Duans were incorporated into the Mongol administration as [[Maharaja]]s of the new province. The Mongolian prince sent to administer the region with them was killed. In 1273, [[Kublai Khan]] reformed the province and appointed the [[semu]] [[Ajall Shams al-Din Omar]] as its governor.<ref>John Man, ''Kublai Khan'', p.80</ref> Yunnan Province during the [[Yuan dynasty]] included significant portions of [[Upper Burma]] after the [[First Mongol invasion of Burma]] in the 1270s and 1280s. The withdrawal of garrison troops from Burma in 1303 gave local leaders the freedom to expand their own power bases, eventually leading to the rapid rise and rebellion of [[Möng Mao]] in the 1340s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Daniels |first=Christian |date=2018-11-28 |title=The Mongol-Yuan in Yunnan and ProtoTai/Tai Polities during the 13th-14th Centuries |url=https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pub_jss/article/view/157701 |journal=The Journal of the Siam Society |language=en |volume=106 |pages=201–243 |issn=2651-1851}}</ref> With the fall of the Yuan dynasty in 1368, the Ming dynasty destroyed the Yuan loyalists led by [[Basalawarmi]] and the remnants of the House of Duan in the [[Ming conquest of Yunnan]] by the early 1380s.<ref>{{citation |last=Robinson |first=David M. |title=Delimiting the Realm under the Ming Dynasty |url=http://mongol.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/Robinson_Delimiting%20the%20Realm%20under%20the%20Ming%20Dynasty.pdf |page=15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629181742/http://mongol.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/Robinson_Delimiting%20the%20Realm%20under%20the%20Ming%20Dynasty.pdf |archive-date=2016-06-29}}</ref><ref name="Dardess2012">{{cite book |last=Dardess |first=John W. |title=Ming China, 1368–1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0vLn_IZZVMUC&pg=PA18 |year=2012 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-0490-4 |page=18 |access-date=2016-07-11 |archive-date=2022-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827084205/https://books.google.com/books?id=0vLn_IZZVMUC&pg=PA18 |url-status=live }}</ref>