Mong Lem

Mong Lem was a Tai Nüa chieftaincy in southwestern Yunnan, ruled from Mùlián by saopha princes. Established as a Yuan tusi in 1289, it was subject to China in 1337.

Möng Mao, known in Chinese as Luchuan, absorbed it in 1348. The Ming restored it as the Menglian Chief's Office in 1406, including lands east of the Salween. Abolished in the sixteenth century, the office was restored in 1585, submitted to the Qing in 1662 and was raised to Xuanfu Si rank in 1709.