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Deification of Teachers in Burma: Why the Tradition of Paying Respect to Teachers should be Abolished

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on January 5, 2023January 3, 2023

Phoenix (pseudonym) argues that Burma’s current model of teacher-student relations limits debate.

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  • Opinion

Myanmar’s Military Coup and the Burmese Abroad

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 8, 2021February 11, 2022

Chit (a pseudonym) reflects on the military coup as part of the Burmese diaspora.

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  • Opinion

Maps to Another Nation: Pentecostal Journeys on the Yangon Bus

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 21, 2020March 9, 2022

Michael Edwards asks how to navigate Yangon using a transit map of Seoul. 

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New Open Access Database of Myanmar Manuscripts and Textual Artefacts at the University of Toronto

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on April 1, 2020July 1, 2020

Tony Scott introduces an important new digital archive of Myanmar manuscripts.

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  • Opinion

Challenging the distortion of influential monks?

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 4, 2019January 20, 2022

Lynn Htwe looks at responses to Sitagu Sayadaw’s comments on Pagan’s recognition by UNESCO.

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  • Essay

Is this the end of Ma Ba Tha?

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on December 2, 2019March 19, 2020

Matthew J Walton and Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi warn that the sentiments underlying “Buddhist…

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  • Essay

What role has social media played in facilitating the spread of hardline nationalist sentiment in Myanmar?

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on June 13, 2018August 13, 2018

Francois-Guillaume Jaeck attempts to identify why, and how, Myanmar’s ultranationalism provided such fertile ground for…

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  • Research Report

“Rowdy monks” or a crisis of monastic authority?

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on March 7, 2018March 22, 2018

Matthew J Walton looks at Ma Ba Tha’s persistence in the light of criticisms.

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  • Book Review

Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other” by Francis Wade. Zed Books, 2017, 280 pages

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on January 11, 2018September 6, 2018

Ishrat Hossain reviews Francis Wade’s timely analysis of anti-Muslim sentiments in Myanmar.

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Putting Myanmar’s “Buddhist Extremism” in an International Context

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on September 1, 2017September 1, 2017

Aye Thein argues that the international influences on “Buddhist extremism” have been overlooked.

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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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