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Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex
April 16, 2021
Reinventing Licentiousness
Pornography and Modern China
Y. Yvon Wang
Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives--ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures--to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and …
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Asian Review of Books
April 15, 2021
Long Peace Street
A Walk in Modern China
Jonathan Chatwin
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Changan Jie, or Long Peace Street, stretches across central Beijing. Along it are several critical historical sites, including Zhongnanhai, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City: all important to Beijing’s history …
East Asian Studies
April 6, 2021
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance
Essays on the Shishuo xinyu
Jack W. Chen
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu (Harvard UP, 2021) is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China—and arguably of the …
Law
April 1, 2021
The Art of Political Control in China
Daniel C. Mattingly
Hosted by Jane Richards
The Art of Political Control in China (Cambridge University Press, 2019) shows how China's authoritarian state ensures political control by non-violent mechanisms. Daniel C. Mattingly demonstrates how coercive control is achieved through …
Religion
March 29, 2021
Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions
A Discussion with Stefania Travagnin
André Laliberté and Stefania Travagnin
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The study of religion in China has a long history across a number of interrelated disciplines. In recent years, scholars have been reassessing past scholarship and synthesizing it in new …
Political Science
March 29, 2021
China's Gilded Age
The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
Yuen Yuen Ang
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we make sense of the “durability and gigantic scale” of China’s economic expansion alongside the reports of “rising” and “explosive” corruption? How has China moved from an “impoverished …
Law
March 24, 2021
The War on the Uyghurs
China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority
Sean R. Roberts
Hosted by Jane Richards
There are currently eleven million Uyghurs living in China, but more than one million are being held in so-called reeducation camps. A cultural genocide is taking place under the guise of …
East Asian Studies
March 24, 2021
Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)
Simon Wickhamsmith
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
How does revolution literature help to engage Mongolia’s nomadic population with the utopia of a “new society” promised by the Mongolian People’s Revolution Party? In Politics and Literature in Mongolia …
Critical Theory
March 24, 2021
Red Creative
Culture and Modernity in China
Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (Intellect Books, 2020) is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of …
East Asian Studies
March 22, 2021
Beyond Pan-Asianism
Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s
Tansen Sen and Brian Tsui
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
What were the stories of modern China-India relations in the age of empires? How did India and China engage with each other beyond pan-Asianist and anti-colonialist interactions? In Beyond Pan-Asianism …
East Asian Studies
March 19, 2021
Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon
Refractions Across the Transpacific
Clara Iwasaki
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
The texts that are examined in this study move in and out of different languages or are multilingual in their origins. Texts and authors do not move randomly; rather, they …
Nordic Asia Podcast
March 19, 2021
The state of regional connectivity between China and Southeast Asia with Xiangming Chen
Xiangming Chen
Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
In this episode, Professor Xiangming Chen from Trinity College in Hartford joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS to talk about his new co-authored book The Belt and Road Initiative as …
Asian Review of Books
March 18, 2021
Land of Big Numbers
Stories
Te-Ping Chen
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
An old farmer, trying to build a plane in his village. A young man that gambles everything on the roaring stock market. A community transformed by a magical fruit that …
Asian Review of Books
March 11, 2021
Monkey King
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en (Trans. Julia Lovell)
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Journey to the West, and especially the character of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is beloved by readers across China, East Asia, and beyond. The story and its characters have …
Chinese Studies
March 11, 2021
Utopian Ruins
A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
Jie Li
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
In Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press, 2020) Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a …
Performing Arts
March 10, 2021
Staging Chinese Revolution
Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda
Xiaomei Chen
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Xiaomei Chen's Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda (Columbia UP, 2016) examines the changing place of revolutionary propaganda in a changing China. Chen analyzes the "grey …
Medicine
March 9, 2021
China's Cholera Pandemic
Restructuring Society Under Mao
Xiaoping Fang
Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global …
East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
Buddhism after Mao
Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions
Zhe Ji, Gareth Fisher, André Laliberté
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted …
Chinese Studies
February 24, 2021
Writing for Print
Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China
Suyoung Son
Hosted by Aliki Semertzi
Suyoung Son’s book Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China (Harvard UP, 2018) examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial …
Chinese Studies
February 19, 2021
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Rana Mitter
Hosted by Keith Krueger
If we wish to understand the role of China in today’s global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in …
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