Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni (born October 26, 1972, in Beijing, China), a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her...

village, in the Loi Maw ward of Mongyai, Northern Shan State, Burma. Before he assumed the Shan name "Khun Sa" in 1976, he was known primarily by his Chinese...

phasa ngiao (ພາສາງ້ຽວ, [pʰáː.sǎː.ŋîa̯w]). In Tai Lü, it is called kam ngio (ᦅᧄᦇᦲᧁᧉ, [kâm.ŋìw]). The Shan dialects spoken in Shan State can be divided into...

boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. The Shan people (Short name or simple name in Shan: တႆး, pronounced [taj˥], Real name တႆးလူင်, IPA taj˥...

Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata and The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. Other books have used Go as a theme or minor plot device. For example...

Empress (French: Impératrice) is a French biographical novel written by Shan Sa, a French author who was born in Beijing. It focuses on Empress Wu Zetian...

Shan State (Shan: မိူင်းတႆး, Möng Tai; Burmese: ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, pronounced [ʃáɰ̃ pjìnɛ̀]) is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the...

Brigade of the Shan State Army to form the Tai Revolutionary Council (TRC) when the 2nd Brigade headquarters was overrun by Khun Sa's Shan United Army (SUA)...

Go, originally published as La Joueuse de Go, is a 2001 French novel by Shan Sa set during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It tells the story of...

superheroine in the DC Comics universe Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa The Empress (play), a 2013 play by Tanika Gupta The Empress (Tarot card)...