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September 30, 2024
The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. …
September 27, 2024
Vampire State
State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. Ho…
September 26, 2024
Words Like Water
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term th…
September 26, 2024
The Great Reversal
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I tried to send several letters to her Chinese counterpart, the Wan Li Emperor. The letters tried to ask the…
September 24, 2024
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global inf…
September 20, 2024
Cutting the Mass Line
On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting …
September 19, 2024
Target Hong Kong
On January 16, 1945, dozens of U.S. Navy aircraft took off for China’s southern coast, including the occupied British colony of Hong Kong. It was part…
September 15, 2024
Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today
On this podcast today, I am joined by three scholars: postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt, Gil Hizi; assistant professor a…
September 14, 2024
China's Camel Country
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted…
September 13, 2024
Rethinking the End of Empire
Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most …
September 12, 2024
The Good War of Consul Reeves
Macau was supposed to be a sleepy post for John Reeves, the British consul for the Portuguese colony on China’s southern coast. He arrived, alone, in …
September 7, 2024
It’s My Party
It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) is unique in focusing on just one b…
September 6, 2024
English Language Ideologies in Korea
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho, Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie Uni…
September 6, 2024
Black Snow
In our interview about Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), James M. …
September 2, 2024
Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) s…
August 30, 2024
Revolutionary Stagecraft
Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2024) offers a fascinating approach to mode…
August 27, 2024
King Chŏngjo
Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent de…
August 27, 2024
Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020
Accounting for the unique characteristics of Taiwan’s cinema from 2008 to 2020, Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice (…
August 25, 2024
One Belt One Road
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. …
August 25, 2024
Maid to Queer
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop…