Professor Danian Wang joined Peking University as a teaching assistant in 1960, advancing to a full professor. He retired from the University in 2001. Professor Wang started his study of the language of Myanmar as an undergraduate, and with support from the Embassy of P.R.C. in Myanmar, he was able to travel frequently within Myanmar to undertake linguistic fieldwork. His research focuses include the grammar and the developmental history of Myanmar, as well as comparative studies of Tibeto-Burman languages. His research has been published in numerous monographs on the comparative studies of Myanmar and other Sino-Tibetan languages, all written in Chinese.Professor Xiangyang Cai obtained his Ph.D. degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the Minzu University of China. He is currently a professor at the Luoyang University of Foreign Languages (Henan), where he teaches Burmese/Myanmar. From 2001-2016, he was an associate professor, and in 2016, he advanced to a full professor. His research focuses on Myanmar language and literature, the languages and cultures in Southeast Asia, and comparative studies of Sino-Tibetan languages. He has published 8 books, including the monograph Miandianyuyan Wenti Yanjiu (The Study of the Linguistics Issues of Myanmar) (in Chinese), as well as more than forty academic articles.
