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Unfolding Scenes Behind the Curtain

8 Minutes To ReadDaw Htay Htay Win describes the history behind the distribution of Bogyoke Aung Gyi’s letter.

Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, history, Pyin Oo Lwin

August 8, 2018

Where China Meets Pyu: The “Tharaba Gate” Bilingual Inscriptions at Pagan

4 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun analyzes the significance of an Chinese-Pyu inscription found at the Tharaba Gate.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Bagan, history, Pyu, translation

July 30, 2018

Keiji Suzuki: The Japanese Lawrence of Arabia who helped end British Rule in Myanmar

5 Minutes To ReadAndrew Thomson discusses Japanese Officer Keiji Suzuki’s role in Myanmar’s independence movement.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Aung San, colonial burma, colonialism, independence, Japan, nationalism

July 26, 2018

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

8 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reviews Stephen Campbell’s account of migrant labor in Thailand.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, capitalism, labour, labour rights, Mae Sot, migrant workers, Thai-Burma border, workers' rights

July 9, 2018

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

4 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni reviews a nuanced account of the challenges and contradictions of wartime journalism.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, history, journalism

June 11, 2018

Myanmar’s Freedom of Expression as a Broken Promise of the NLD

11 Minutes To ReadYaw Bawm Mangshang analyzes the status of press freedom under the NLD-led government.

Tags: freedom of expression, law, media, National League for Democracy (NLD), press freedom, Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), Year in Review

May 30, 2018

Myanmar’s Paletwa Township: A Photo Essay

< 1 minuteBobby Anderson captures Myanmar’s Paletwa Township in Chin State, and parts of neighboring Rakhine.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Chin State, media

May 17, 2018

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

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Andrew Selth’s book on popular music in colonial Burma.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, history, music

May 15, 2018

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

5 Minutes To ReadRichard Roewer reviews a new collection of short stories from Myanmar writers.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, fiction, translation

April 9, 2018

Delving into Socialist Burma in the Menzies Library

4 Minutes To ReadAlice Dawkins describes discoveries in the uncatalogued section of the Australian National University’s Menzies Library.

Tags: archives, history, research, socialism

March 19, 2018

Citizenship in Myanmar: Ways of Being in and from Burma, Edited by Ashley South and Marie Lall, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, 316 pages

9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new edited volume on the contentious issues surrounding citizenship in Myanmar.

Tags: Book Review, citizenship, ethnicity, human rights

March 12, 2018

Lahu stories across borders

5 Minutes To ReadFrances O’Morchoe delves into the stories of banishment, migration and golden ages within Lahu pasts.

Tags: borderlands, borders, history, Lahu

February 22, 2018

Do not be deceived

3 Minutes To ReadLuke Corbin reviews the new film “Deception,” in Yangon theatres now.

Arts & Literature

Tags: cinema, film, gender violence, Yangon

January 31, 2018

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

5 Minutes To ReadIshrat Hossain reviews Francis Wade’s timely analysis of anti-Muslim sentiments in Myanmar.

Tags: buddhism, conflict, Islam, nationalism, Rakhine State, Rohingya

January 11, 2018

Knowledge, Piracy and Academic Development in Myanmar (Part 2)

11 Minutes To ReadMandy Sadan discusses the piracy of her work and tensions between academic publishing and reaching local audiences.

Arts & Literature

Tags: bamar, ethnicity, Kachin, plagiarism, translation

December 1, 2017

Knowledge, Piracy and Academic Development in Myanmar (Part 1)

10 Minutes To ReadMandy Sadan discusses the piracy of her work and tensions between academic publishing and reaching local audiences.

Arts & Literature

Tags: bamar, ethnicity, Kachin, plagiarism, translation

November 30, 2017

Miss Burma. Charmaine Craig. 2017. 355 pp. Grove Press.

5 Minutes To ReadLuke Corbin reviews Charmaine Craig’s new book, “Miss Burma.”

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, Karen

October 2, 2017

Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar – A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South by Adam Simpson, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 2017.

4 Minutes To ReadTinzar Htun reviews a new edition of Adam Simpson’s book on energy politics.

Tags: Book Review, energy, environment, security, Thailand

September 26, 2017

Reflecting on the Saffron Revolution, In Poetry and Prose

5 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind talks with poet Khet Mar about her poem, “The Wound.”

Tags: Poetry, political prisoners, saffron revolution

September 20, 2017

Pathways That Changed Myanmar, Matthew Mullen. Zed Books, 2016, 256 pages.

5 Minutes To ReadJames T. Davies reviews Matthew Mullen’s book on understanding change in Myanmar.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, ceasefire, economy, ethnic armed organisations, insurgency

September 13, 2017

Mapping Chinese Rangoon – Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese by Jayde Lin Roberts, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2016.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Jayde Lin Roberts’ book on the Sino-Burmese in Yangon.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, Chinese, diaspora, identity, Yangon

August 22, 2017

Cost of Trinkets: A Growing Archaeological Looting Network Between Thailand and Myanmar

9 Minutes To ReadPhacharaphorn Phanomvan digs into cross-border antiquities-smuggling practices.

Tags: borderlands, culture, Thai-Burma border, Thailand

July 10, 2017

Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging edited by Melissa Crouch, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016, Pages 345.

6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Melissa Crouch’s edited volume on Muslims in Myanmar.

Tags: Book Review, buddhism, Islam, religion

July 3, 2017

The Poet Parliament – an artistic administration ready to deliver?

8 Minutes To ReadMatt Grace reviews developments in the arts.

Tags: art, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy (NLD), Yangon

June 22, 2017

Rhythms of Folk Traditions

9 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee considers Myanmar’s artistic heritage in regional context.

Arts & Literature

Tags: culture, history, music

June 12, 2017

Buddhism, Politics, and Political Thought in Myanmar by Matthew J. Walton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2017. 226 pages.

6 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind reviews a new book on Buddhism and political thought by Matthew J. Walton.

Tags: Book Review, buddhism, democracy, morality, political dialogue

June 2, 2017

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

11 Minutes To ReadSai Latt challenges conventional wisdom on Myanmar’s political divides.

Arts & Literature

Tags: buddhism, film, memory, music, peace process

April 26, 2017

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

10 Minutes To Read

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

Arts & Literature

Tags: colonialism, history, memory, religion

April 24, 2017

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

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee loses herself in the Architectural Guide Yangon.

Arts & Literature

Tags: architecture, Book Review, history, Yangon

April 5, 2017

Myanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes – Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds edited by Su-Ann Oh, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2016, 398 pages.

9 Minutes To Read

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, borderlands, environment, ethnicity

March 15, 2017

War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011, edited by Mandy Sadan, NIAS Press, Copenhagen. 2016. 540 pages.

6 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reflects on the nuanced framing of war and peace offered by a new edited volume.

Tags: Book Review, borderlands, ethnicity, Kachin, peace

March 2, 2017

Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar by Renaud Egreteau, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 193 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadT. F. Rhoden reviews Renaud Egreteau’s new book on Burmese politics and the praetorian side of democratization.

Tags: Book Review, democracy

February 6, 2017

Democratisation of Myanmar by Nehginpao Kipgen, Routledge, New Delhi, 2016, 194 pages

6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Nehginpao Kipgen’s new book on Myanmar’s transition.

Tags: Book Review, democracy

January 26, 2017

Freestyle Utopia: Hip Hop and Healing in Meikhtila

4 Minutes To ReadKlara Christensen recounts a cathartic inter-faith freestyle rap session in conflict-torn Meikhtila.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Meikhtila, music, religion

December 19, 2016

Constructing Civil Society in Myanmar: Struggles for Local Change and Global Recognition by Maaike Matelski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016, Pages 318.

8 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Maaike Matelski’s new PhD dissertation “Constructing Civil Society in Myanmar.”

Tags: Book Review, civil society, development

December 14, 2016

Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations – The Karen and the Gift of Education by Pia Jolliffe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016, 180 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Pia Jolliffe’s new book on the Karen and the gift of education.

Tags: Book Review, Karen, migration

November 28, 2016

Blood, Dreams and Gold – The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2015, 254 Pages.

5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee reviews Richard Cockett’s new book on Myanmar.

Tags: Book Review, transition

August 31, 2016

Music in Myanmar

6 Minutes To ReadKlara Christensen explores the music scene in Myanmar.

Tags: music, religion, Yangon

July 28, 2016

Lost Glory: Reviving Arakan Art

7 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee writes about the value of Arakan art and history.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Arakan, art, history

July 11, 2016

Understanding Reform in Myanmar: People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule by Marie Lall, C. Hurst and Co (Publishers) Ltd, London, 2016, 346 Pages.

4 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee reviews a new book on Myanmar’s transition.

Arts & Literature

Tags: Book Review, democracy, reform

May 14, 2016

The Female Voice of Myanmar Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi by Nilanjana Sengupta, Cambridge University Press, Delhi, 2015, 383 Pages.

4 Minutes To ReadMyanmar today stands at the crossroads; where conflict and change are becoming daily occurrences. The book by Nilanjana Sengupta comes at an appropriate time where she sensitively takes up the […]