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Category: Book Review

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Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 20, 2019April 2, 2020

Elliott Prasse-Freeman argues that a new book sacrifices analytical rigor for antipolitical “objectivity.”

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.

  • by maelraynaud
  • Posted on March 7, 2019April 24, 2020

Mael Raynaud reviews a new resource for scholarship on Myanmar.

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The Other Ladies of Myanmar by Jennifer Rigby, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, Pages 127.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on November 28, 2018February 3, 2019

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Jennifer Rigby’s telling of twelve remarkable Myanmar women and their life histories.…

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Opening up Hidden Burma: Journeys With – And Without – Author Dr Bob Percival, edited by Keith Lyons, et.al, Tenko Press, 2018, 230 pages.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on October 8, 2018April 24, 2020

Elliott Fox enjoys this series of tributes to a much-missed friend of Yangon.

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Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on September 10, 2018April 2, 2020

Reshmi Banerjee explores the trans-border relevance of the archaeological site of Bagan.

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The Cell, Exile, and the New Burma: A Political Education amid the Unfinished Journey toward Democracy by Kyaw Zwa Moe, Yangon, New Myanmar Publishing House, 2018, 245 Pages

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on August 27, 2018April 2, 2020

David Scott Mathieson explores the new collection of essays by noted journalist Kyaw Zwa Moe,…

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

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on July 9, 2018September 6, 2018

Courtney T. Wittekind reviews Stephen Campbell’s account of migrant labor in Thailand.

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Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on June 11, 2018April 2, 2020

Giulia Garbagni reviews a nuanced account of the challenges and contradictions of wartime journalism. Even…

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Burma, Kipling and Western Music – The Riff from Mandalay by Andrew Selth, New York, Routledge, 2017, 293 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on May 15, 2018September 10, 2018

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Andrew Selth’s book on popular music in colonial Burma.

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Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds – Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar, Lucas Stewart and Alfred Birnbaum (eds.), British Council, London, 2017. Pp. 153.

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 9, 2018September 6, 2018

Richard Roewer reviews a new collection of short stories from Myanmar writers.

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Series: COVID-19 and Myanmar

ကိုဗစ်-၁၉  နှင့် မြန်မာရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ လူငယ်တို့၏  တက်ကြွ လှုပ်ရှား မှု

COVID-19 Policy Response Needs and Opportunities

Wavering at the Turning Point: Myanmar’s response to COVID-19 in March 2020

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia, Arash Khazeni, University of California Press, 2020, 264 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.

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