La trascrizione Wade-Giles, secondo Than Tun 1959, p. 121 e Htin Aung 1967, p. 70, sarebbe "Chiang-Mien", lett. "Provincia birmana". (EN) Than Tun, History of Burma: A.D. 1300–1400, in Journal of Burma Research Society, XLII, II, dicembre 1959. (EN) Maung Htin Aung, A History of Burma, New York w Londra, Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Stuart-Fox 2001, pp. 88–90. (EN) Martin Stuart-Fox, Review of "Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma" by Michael A. Aung-Thwin, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 44, n. 1, Brill, 2001, pp. 88–90, JSTOR3632565.