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Buddhist Studies February 4, 2023

Buddhist Responses to COVID

A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana, chief abbot at the Pittsburgh Buddhist Center and a scholar of modern Buddhism in Sri Lanka. We talk about his role …

Asian American Studies

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Interviews with scholars of Asian America about about their new books.

Chinese Studies December 16, 2022

The Chinese Atlantic

Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization

Sean Metzger

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical frame through which to understand discourses of globalization: the so-called …
Asian Review of Books December 8, 2022

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Jamil Jan Kochai

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The first story in Jamil Jan Kochai’s newest collection has an interesting title and premise. “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” leads The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and …
Religion November 11, 2022

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

Religion and Race in American History

Kathryn Gin Lum

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press, 2022), Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the “heathen” has been maintained from the colonial era to …
Asian Review of Books November 10, 2022

Stay True

A Memoir

Hua Hsu

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Stay True (Doubleday: 2022), the new memoir from Hua Hsu, is a coming-of-age story about the writer’s time in the University of California in Berkeley, where he tries to become …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists November 1, 2022

Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories

May-lee Chai

Hosted by Marshall Poe
In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai (Blair, 2022) explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth …
Japanese Studies October 26, 2022

Un-Thinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan

A. Carly Buxton

Hosted by Ran Zwigenberg
Today I will be talking to Carly Buxton about her book Unthinking collaboration: American Nisei in transwar Japan, which came out this year [2022] with the University of Hawaiʹi Press …
Jewish Studies October 25, 2022

Elaine Black Yoneda

Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration

Rachel Schreiber

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
During World War II, Elaine Black Yoneda, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent eight months in a concentration camp--not in Europe, but in California. She did this voluntarily and …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast October 19, 2022

Reckoning with the Interdiscipline

Journal of Asian American Studies 25:2 (June 2022)

Lily Anne Welty Tamai and Paul Spickard

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
In this episode, we discuss a special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: “Reckoning with the Interdiscipline.” This special issue, first conceived in 2018, reflects on fifty years …
On Religion October 7, 2022

Heathen

Religion and Race in American History

Kathryn Gin Lum

Hosted by Gregory Soden
If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between "civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far," the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written …
Asian American Studies October 5, 2022

Fierce and Fearless

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX. "Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every …
Burned by Books October 4, 2022

Our Missing Hearts

A Novel

Celeste Ng

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was …
Food September 13, 2022

Asian-Cajun Fusion

Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou

Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou …
American West September 6, 2022

The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky

A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana

Mark T. Johnson

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the …
Sports August 16, 2022

Gridiron Capital

How American Football Became a Samoan Game

Lisa Uperesa

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron …
Burned by Books August 15, 2022

Disorientation

A Novel

Elaine Hsieh Chou

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American writer from California. A 2017 Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, her short fiction appears in The Normal …
Anthropology August 4, 2022

Academic Outsider

Stories of Exclusion and Hope

Victoria Reyes

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …
Education August 3, 2022

Why They Hate Us

How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education

Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz

Hosted by Autumn Wilke
Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) examines how racist political rhetoric has created damaging and dangerous conditions for Students of Color in schools …
Asian American Studies July 15, 2022

Biotic Borders

Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950

Jeannie N. Shinozuka

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In the late nineteenth century, increasing traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a "biological yellow peril" when nursery stock and other agricultural products shipped from Japan …
Asian Review of Books July 7, 2022

Thank You, Mr. Nixon

Stories

Gish Jen

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon stepped off a plane in Beijing: a visit that changed the course of China, the U.S., the Cold war and the world. The stories …