''Kyipwayay'' ( my, ကြီးပွားရေး, , lit. "Growth") was a pre-
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
Burmese language monthly magazine, closely identified with the ''
Khit-San Sarpay ''Khit San Sarpay'' ( my, ခေတ်စမ်းစာပေ, ; lit. "Testing the Age Literature") was a literary movement that emerged in the 1930s British Burma, and is considered the first modern literary movement in the history of Burmese lite ...
'' movement, the first modern literary movement in the history of Burmese literature.
[Swan Yi : 11] The magazine was founded by
U Thein in
Yangon
Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...
but later taken over by
U Hla and moved to
Mandalay in 1933. The monthly was published even during the
Japanese occupation of the country (1942–1945). After the war, U Hla transformed Kyipwayay into the
Ludu Journal.
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Bibliography
* {{cite web , last=Swan Yi , first=Maung , title="'CHEWING THE WEST': The Development of Modern Burmese Literature Under the Influence of Western Literature , url=http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/WRIT/documents/MAUNGSwanYiformattedOctober13.pdf , date=December 2002 , publisher=Leiden University , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411150729/http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/WRIT/documents/MAUNGSwanYiformattedOctober13.pdf , archivedate=2008-04-11
Burmese magazines