Search

Tea Circle

An Oxford Forum for New Perspectives On Burma/Myanmar

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • Our Editors
    • Our Contributors
  • Burma/Myanmar Institutions and Links
    • Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library
    • Inya Institute
    • Center of Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University (NIU)
    • Programme on Modern Burmese Studies (Oxford)
    • Myanmar-Institut
    • Myanmar Research Center, Australia National University (ANU)
    • Myanmar Studies at ISEAS
  • Submissions
    • Submit to Tea Circle
    • Reprinting Policy
  • Bibliography of Burma Studies

Month: April 2017

  • Interview

A Candid Conversation with a Fellow Researcher

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on April 28, 2017May 30, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee talks with Li Yi about her new book on the Chinese migrant community in…

Read More
  • Essay

Film Academy Awards, Myanmar Idol, and the Peace Process in Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 26, 2017May 15, 2017

Sai Latt challenges conventional wisdom on Myanmar’s political divides.

Read More
  • Essay

Thein Pe of the Rangoon Turf Club: tracking days down memory lane.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 24, 2017April 24, 2017

Htay Htay Win tracks down memories of her jockey grandfather, Thein Pe of the Rangoon Turf Club.

Read More
Photo credit: Phyu Phyu Thi
  • Research Report

“Peace Memories” in Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 21, 2017April 21, 2017

The Myanmar Media and Society team previews its current oral history project.

Read More
  • Research Report

A Karen Petition to the UN? The Harvey-S’au Poo Nyo Correspondence (1947-1956)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 19, 2017May 15, 2017

Giulia Garbagni draws on the St Antony’s archives to describe the Karen petition for statehood. 

Read More
  • Research Report

“They Do Not Count Us”: Resisting the Myitsone Dam beyond China, the US, and Big Geopolitics

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 17, 2017May 8, 2017

Laur Kiik talks with a person who was at the root of the Myitsone resistance.

Read More
  • Note

Waiting for Thagya Min

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 7, 2017April 5, 2017

Tea Circle will take a break over Thingyan. As we all prepare to welcome Thagya…

Read More
  • Book Review

Architectural Guide Yangon by Ben Bansal, Elliott Fox and Manuel Oka, DOM Publishers, Berlin, 2015, 399 pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on April 5, 2017September 29, 2018

Reshmi Banerjee loses herself in the Architectural Guide Yangon.

Read More
  • Opinion

Reflections on a Debate on Education Reform

  • by maelraynaud
  • Posted on April 3, 2017January 2, 2018

Mael Raynaud considers what education reform debates reveal about current political conditions.

Read More

Series: COVID-19 and Myanmar

COVID-19 and Youth Climate Change Activism in Myanmar

A Peep over the Border

COVID-19 and Food Security in Chin State: A Chance to Reform the Status Quo 

The COVID-19 Situation in Myanmar Prisons: Many Grave Risks and a New Opportunity?

A Preliminary Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on the Mon State Economy: Pathways to Recovery

COVID-19 Weaponized Against Unionists in Myanmar

What can recovery after Cyclone Nargis tell us about Myanmar’s resilience to COVID-19?

Myanmar Needs to Redefine Its COVID-19 Stimulus Package

Women and COVID-19 in Myanmar

COVID-19, Political Movements and the Need to Re-examine Racial Thinking for Future Change

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

In Search of Myanmar: Travels through a Changing Land by James Fable, Independently published, 2019, 422 pages.

Secrets and Power in Myanmar: Intelligence and the Fall of General Khin Nyunt, By Andrew Selth, Singapore, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019, 248 pp.

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2019, 320 pages.

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction

Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear, by John Holt. Honolulu, Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 301pp.

Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change, edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran, ISEAS, Singapore, 2019, 407 Pages.

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

Recent Posts

  • Yangon’s Housing Inequality during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    January 13, 2021
  • Political Economy Analysis of the Ride-Hailing Platforms in Yangon: The Case of Grab

    January 11, 2021
  • Motivated but Overstretched: Job Satisfaction among Myanmar’s University Teachers

    December 17, 2020

Tags

aung san suu kyi Book Review burma democracy development education ethnicity Karen myanmar NLD politics Rakhine State Rohingya transition Yangon

Archives

April 2017
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
« Mar   May »

Contact Us

Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Asian Institute
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7
Canada
(+1) 416-946-8996

Tea Circle on Facebook

Tea Circle on Facebook

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Copyright Tea Circle 2018. All Rights Reserved.

The opinions expressed on this website belong to the authors alone, and do not reflect the views of the editors, the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, the Asian Institute, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy or the University of Toronto.

Blog at WordPress.com.
×