Some further reading to help you find more details on saohpas.

Adams, Nel. 2000. My Vanished World: The True Story of a Shan Princess. Frodsham: Horseshoe

Adams, Nel (Sao Noan Oo). 2017. Unravelling the History of Tai Yai: A sub-group of the Proto-Tai

Collis, Maurice. 1938, The Lords of the Sunset. Faber & Faber,London

Elliot, Patricia, The White Umbrella. 1999. The Post Publishing Company, Bangkok

Hkun Kyi, Sao. 1936. Shan Pya Ahma Pone [Shan States’ Blunder]. Circulated privately in Burmese and later in English.

Hso Hom, Sao. 2008. Shan State Affairs. Paper prepared by the Office of the Regional Coordinator, Australia & the Pacific.

Mangrai Khemawadee. 2014. Burma My Mother: And Why I Had to Leave. Sydney School of Arts and Humanities, Australia

Mi Mi Khaing. 1959. Kambawza, Modern Review. A series of articles written for The Nation newspaper, Rangoon

Saimong Mangrai. 1965. The Shan States and the British Annexation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Saimong Mangrai. 1981. The Pa ̄ ḍaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Sargent, Inge. 1994. Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Yang Li (Jackie Rettie). 1997. The House of Yang, Guardians of an Unknown Frontier. Sydney: Bookpress.

Yawnghwe, Chao Tzang. 1987. The Shan of Burma. Singapore: ISEAS.