New Books Network
Chinese Studies
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 …