Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know (40 page)

   British colonialism and,
38
–39,
109

   high literacy rate and,
24
,
109

Working Peoples Daily
(newspaper),
65

World Bank,
11
,
66
,
138
,
168
,
171

world financial crisis (2008–2009),
168
,
179

World Press Freedom Index,
167

World War II,
5
,
6
,
76
,
102

   Burma’s strategic importance and,
32

   Burmese army composition and,
29
,
37
–38,
41
,
54

   Burmese impact of,
36
–37,
52

   Burmese independence following,
41
,
74

   Japanese occupation of Burma and,
5
,
6
,
32
,
36
–38,
41
,
74
,
123
,
124

xenophobia,
73
,
101
,
151
–152,
155
–156,
161
,
173
,
175
,
181
,
182
,
184

Yadana gas field (Thailand),
165

Yangon.
See
Rangoon

Yetagun gas field (Thailand),
165

Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA),
35

youth crisis,
11
–12,
169

Yüan Dynasty,
120

Yunnan Province (China),
21
,
23
,
27
,
28
,
45
,
50
,
95
,
121
,
122
,
160

zinc,
31

David I. Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, was Director of the Asian Studies Program there for ten years, and prior to that Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies.

His career spans more than fifty years in dealing with Burma/Myanmar. He was Assistant Representative of The Asia Foundation in Burma (1958–1962), and later Director for Philippines, Thailand, and Burma Affairs in the U.S. Agency for International Development, State Department. He led the team that negotiated the reentry of the U.S. aid program to that country in 1979 and has taught on contemporary Burma/Myanmar at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of seven volumes and monographs on Burma/Myanmar, and more than fifty book chapters and articles on that country in diverse publications, in addition to writing extensively for the press. He has visited Burma/Myanmar some twenty-seven times since 1962. He has authored eight books and monographs on other topics, as well as one translation from the Korean, and over fifty published essays on Asia. He has been the editor of six volumes as well.

Professor Steinberg’s career also includes service as Representative of The Asia Foundation in Korea and Washington, D.C., and as Assistant Representative in Hong Kong.

Professor Steinberg was educated at Dartmouth College, Lingnan University (China), Harvard University in Chinese studies, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he studied Burmese and Southeast Asia.