Many are ethnic minorities such as Lisu, Shan and Akha; some wear traditional dress, including a few Akha women with striking head coverings dripping silver ornaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Moveable Feast] Reference

They're a cross between the Lisu, the Hmong, and the Lahu, with a touch of Akha added in.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

Prior to coming for surgery, he could only speak the dialect of his Lisu ethnic minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [China’s First Facial Transplant Patient Goes Home | Impact Lab] Reference

I think she felt that the Lisu collectively were in possession of a great secret that she wished to know.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

I wanted to write a book telling the story of the conversion of the Lisu people, one of the tribal peoples of southeast Asia, to Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

As I walked the streets, I saw costumes of at least a dozen different ethnic groups, including Naxi, Lisu, Pumi, Han, Bai, Yi, Tibetan and Miao.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photo Journeys: Alison Wright: Lijiang, an Ancient City of China] Reference

She was passionately curious about the Lisu, but she confessed that even after all these years it sometimes bothered her, her inability to see the world through Lisu eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

Of the estimated 278,329 people living within the boundaries of the site, 13 ethnic groups are represented, among them the Tibetan, Yi, Naxi, Bai, Lisu, Pumi, Nu and Dulong peoples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, China] Reference

She had been a reasonably successful sociologist in her earlier life with a stable academic career, when in her early fifties she had shucked it all to move to the Lisu village of Doi Lan.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

She'd lived up there for almost five years, mastered the language, then wrote a splendid academic book about the Lisu; since then, she had lived in Chiang Mai, but really still continuing her fieldwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

For starters, the area around Shangri-La has always been ethnically diverse, with significant populations of Naxi and Lisu minorities, so the recent migration of other ethnicities into the area is less disruptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shangri-La, or Not] Reference

From his longtime contacts among the Wa, the Lu, and the Lisu, he had heard the jungle rumors about Mai's prowess in effecting, as the Chinese termed it, the clouds and the rain, eliciting spectacular orgasms from her lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

The Lao Sung tribes-which include the Lisu, the Mien, and, most predominantly, the Hmong-are the most recent immigrants in Laos, having migrated from China, Burma, and Tibet probably no earlier than the end of the nineteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Incognito]

He was a veteran of Vietnam, at the war's height, in charge of recruiting CIDGs, Civilian Irregular Defense Groups, from the Wa, the Lu, the Lisu, all the mountain tribes of Burma, and from the Mekong Delta-born Cambodians to fight the Viet Cong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

They are Lisu from Shan State of Burma to join the celebration.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China re-engages Myanmar ally] Reference

Isisi, Efele (the Tornado) of the N'gombi, Lisu (the Seer) of the Inner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference

Asarama was the Lisu teacher at the school and basically my savior and translator during my time there.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

(We would hire, over the course of the trek, four porters, a pony, elephants and a Lisu opium trader named Sook.).    From Wordnik.com.  [totse.com] Reference

Among them 6 are Uygurs living in Xinjiang; rest of them, 2 Han, one Tujia and one Lisu, live in other provinces respectively.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Burgundians, Franks, and Aquitanians etc. became dgaicun: "Sui peope drive like this, while Lisu people drive like this, amirite?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Most Lisu also can speak Maliba langguage, a kind of Han Chinese dialect spoken on the border area of China and Shan State of Burma.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China re-engages Myanmar ally] Reference

As many as 20 different 'hill tribes', totalling 1 million people according to some estimates, live in Thailand and include, among the more numerous, the Akha, Karen, Lahu, Lisu, H'mong and.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

We made Nao Lao Dum, a Lisu village somewhere along the Burmese border, as the sun shot orange and blue streaks through nimbus clouds in a dramatic last stand before surrendering behind a craggy mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [totse.com] Reference

(Mediterranean) Salute Lingua Franca (Mediterranean) Bon dgiorno Lisu (Thailand) Ali nga?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Feb, 2010 Lisu New Year in Nong Tong village, Pang Mapha, Mae Hong Song Province, northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China re-engages Myanmar ally] Reference

Million people according to some estimates, live in Thailand and include, among the more numerous, the Akha, Karen, Lahu, Lisu, H'mong and Mien.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The mudslides were triggered by days of torrential rains, "said a spokesman with the Government of Lisu.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

Most Lisu also can speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China re-engages Myanmar ally] Reference

20 Feb, 2010 Lisu New Year in Nong Tong village, Pang.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China re-engages Myanmar ally] Reference

A couple of Lisu merchants?.    From Wordnik.com.  [totse.com] Reference

The Lisu men were digging in.    From Wordnik.com.  [totse.com] Reference

Lisu: Nice filtered collections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials] Reference

Lisu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Karen, Lahu, Lisu, H'mong and Mien.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Hmong, about 100,000 Lahu, 55,000 Lisu, and 30,000 Mien living in Thailand.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

Large populations of Han, Hui, Salar, Monpa, Lhoba, Mongol, Qiang, Dongxiang, Pumi, Lisu, and some several dozen other peoples live in this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantic Review] Reference