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Chinese Studies
Asian Review of Books September 23, 2021

Ancient Egypt and Early China

State, Society, and Culture

Anthony J Barbieri-Low

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
One would think that comparing civilizations as far removed in time and space as Ancient Egypt and Ancient China might not reveal much. Yet Professor Tony Barbieri’s Ancient Egypt and …

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Ideas Roadshow Podcast September 22, 2021

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture

Dang Qun

Hosted by Howard Burton
Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness and architecture's unique balance of the concrete and ethereal. Howard …
East Asian Studies September 21, 2021

Taiwan's Green Parties

Alternative Politics in Taiwan

Dafydd Fell

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, Dafydd Fell’s Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan …
East Asian Studies September 17, 2021

The Global White Snake

Liang Luo

Hosted by Huiying Chen
Liang Luo's book The Global White Snake (U Michigan Press, 2021) examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across …
Southeast Asian Studies September 15, 2021

Language Ungoverned

Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949

Tom G. Hoogervorst

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – writings produced by the Chinese community in the Malay language – in …
Economic and Business History September 1, 2021

China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937

Austin Dean

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 27, 2021

Pandemic Precarity and the Livelihoods of Migrant Workers in China and Cambodia

A discussion with Dennis Arnold and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen

Dennis Arnold and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen

Hosted by Arve Hansen
Creating jobs and providing decent employment is central to global development agendas. Indeed, Sustainable Development Goal 8 targets nothing less than decent work for all by 2030. Yet precarious—simply put …
East Asian Studies August 27, 2021

Meritocracy and Its Discontents

Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China

Zachary M. Howlett

Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
Every year millions of high school seniors in China take the gaokao, China’s standardized college entrance exam. Students, parents, and head teachers all devote years, sweat, and tears to this …
Asian Review of Books August 26, 2021

India and the Silk Roads

The History of a Trading World

Jagjeet Lally

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
When we think about modern trade, we tend to think about the sea: port cities and large ships carrying goods back and forth. It’s a story that tends to put …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 20, 2021

A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific

A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen

Camilla Sørensen

Hosted by Andreas Forsby
In this episode, Camilla T.N. Sørensen joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS for a conversation about the Indo-Pacific region as seen from a Danish and broader European perspective. Camilla was …
Asian Review of Books August 19, 2021

Market Maoists

The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent

Jason M. Kelly

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
We think we know the history of China’s opening to the outside world. Maoist China was closed off, until Deng Xiaoping decided to reform the economy and open up to …
SSEAC Stories August 19, 2021

Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos

A Conversation with Paul-David Lutz

Paul-David Lutz

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the extreme north of Laos, in Phongsali Province, lies a tiny village home to around 24 households. Until recently it was a monoethnic Khmu village. The Khmu have had …
Medicine August 16, 2021

ReOrienting Histories of Medicine

Encounters Along the Silk Roads

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Hosted by Christopher Rose
There's been a lot of resurgent interest in the Silk Routes lately, particularly looking at the cultural, political, and economic connections between "East" and "West" that challenge long held narratives …
World Christianity August 2, 2021

John Song

Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man

Daryl R. Ireland

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it …
Economics July 29, 2021

Welfare for Autocrats

How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers

Jennifer Pan

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Development economists have been doing intensive research in recent years on conditional cash transfer programs as a tool to help get people out of poverty. Meanwhile in the US there …
East Asian Studies July 28, 2021

Cinema Off Screen

Moviegoing in Socialist China

Chenshu Zhou

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating …
Asian Review of Books July 22, 2021

The Last Embassy

The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

Tonio Andrade

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
On January 10th, 1795, a very tired caravan arrives in Beijing. The travelers have journeyed from Canton on an accelerated schedule through harsh terrain in order to make it to …
Chinese Studies July 21, 2021

Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations

Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women

Kailing Xie

Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China's Privileged Young Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). This book takes a feminist approach to …
Law July 20, 2021

Heritage Politics in China

The Power of the Past

Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags

Hosted by Nick Pozek
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past (Routledge, 2020) studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 16, 2021

China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty

A Discussion with Rogier Creemers

Rogier Creemers

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
What is China's new vision for regulating cyberspace? What does its new Data Security Law intend to do? Is China's Personal Information Protection Law comparable to Europe’s GDPR? What are …