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In August 1966, Steve Young, a political science student at Harvard College, was living in the village conducting interviews for his senior honors thesis. Young, a speaker of Thai, was familiar with the work of Wilhelm Solheim and his theory of the possible ancient origins of civilization in Southeast Asia.
In 1966, Stephen Young, son of a former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand when he tripped on a kapok tree root and fell flat.
Feb 17, 2008 · In the summer of 1966 a Harvard student named Steve Young was living in a village in the northeast reaches of Thailand, going door to door canvassing political opinion for his senior thesis,...
Jun 24, 2014 · Stephen Young, the son of Kenneth Todd Young, the US ambassador to Thailand from 1961-1963, has used his father’s diplomatic role as a measuring stick for assessing the role of the current and ...
- Charles Keyes
Aug 16, 2017 · Fifty years ago in August, in the village of Ban Chiang near Udon Thani, a visiting American student named Stephen Young tripped over an exposed tree root and fell atop the rim of a clay pot partly buried in the village path.
Recognized global expert in cross-cultural business management and ethical issues. Selected Publications. “The Northeastern Thai Village: a non-participatory democracy,” Asian Survey, November 1968, a discussion of basic concepts in the political culture of northeastern Thai villages.
