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Chinese Studies
Interviews with scholars of China about their new books.
April 17, 2026
The Shawshank Redemption in China
How can an entirely foreign cast perform the American “The Shawshank Redemption” in the Chinese language across China? In this episode of the Nordic A…
April 15, 2026
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters
Daniel A. Bell joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and …
April 14, 2026
Revolutions
Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms…
April 9, 2026
Steamships across the Pacific
How did the movement of people, goods, and ships reshape connections between Latin America and Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri…
April 6, 2026
The China Question
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former." So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
April 3, 2026
Property of the People
"Honoured Investors, As Zhongfu Group enters its eighth decade, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of two famous coal mines. These assets fur…
April 2, 2026
Two Paths to Prosperity
It’s one of the biggest questions in economic history: How did a richer, more advanced China fall behind Europe? Why was Europe the home of the Indust…
March 31, 2026
Everything You Wanted to Know about China*
What does Xi Jinping share with Mao Zedong? Why is Confucius still central to a communist state? What really happened in Tiananmen Square—and why is i…
March 30, 2026
Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food
For many Ashkenazi Jews in the United States, Christmastime sparks memories of egg rolls and General Tso's chicken. How did the affinity for Chinese f…
March 28, 2026
Precarious Accumulation
In Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou (Duke UP, 2026), the cultural anthropologist Nellie Chu tells the story of …
March 28, 2026
Cultural Mavericks
In recent decades, self-proclaimed “independent bookstores” have arisen across China. In the West, such retailers represent an alternative to corporat…
March 25, 2026
The Global Vanguard
What does it mean for a small state to imagine itself as a model for the developing world? And how were these visions of agrarian development received…
March 20, 2026
Gods and the State
What happens to the environment when the state enters previously self-governed villages in rural China? We explore this question in the Blang mountain…
March 17, 2026
Penalties of Empire
Who bore the burdens of empire? Christopher Munn's Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Hong Kong UP, 2025) explores how judge…
March 14, 2026
Creative Belonging
China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un…
March 12, 2026
Contested Environmentalisms
For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid incr…
March 8, 2026
The Idea of China
What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese? China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its …
March 5, 2026
Islamic China
Can someone be Chinese and Muslim? For some academics, this has been a surprisingly fraught question, with some asserting that Chinese Muslims are not…
March 1, 2026
Underground Front
There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years. Whether reports have focused…
February 21, 2026
I Can Imagine It for Us
I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir (American University in Cairo Press, 2025) is a young woman’s search for connection with her …