Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Sao
Edward Yang Kyein Tsai
Native Name Lang:zh
Office:Saopha of Kokang
Term Start:1949
Term End:17 May 1959
Predecessor:Yang Wen Pin
Successor:Position abolished
Birth Name:Yang Kyein Tsai (楊振材)
Birth Date:1918
Birth Place:Yamen, Kya Diling, Kokang
Death Place:Lashio
Education:Rangoon University
Nationality:Burmese
Relations:Jimmy Yang Kyein Sein (younger brother)
Olive Yang (younger sister)

Sao Edward Yang Kyein Sai (Burmese: စောယန်းကျိန်စိုင်း, 1918–1971) was the last traditional ruler (saopha) of the Chiefdom of Kokang from 1949, at the death of his father, saopha Sao Yang Wen Pin, until he abdicated in 1959.

Yang's sister, Olive Yang, was a prominent opium warlord, recruited by Khin Nyunt in the late 1980s to help broker ceasefires in Burma with ethnic rebel groups.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Thant Myint-U. Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia. Macmillan. 13 September 2011. 9781466801271.