The Bulang are one of the indigenous minority groups long inhabiting Sipsong Panna, or Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, one of the two administrative apparatus the Communist Party of China designated to divide and rule the majority Dai... virtually no attention to the Bulang, while China-based academics have conducted some research on this minority group but constrained by a Han-centric bias. In bringing attention to Laoman’e Bulang Village, the present study offers an empirical investigation