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Chinese Studies April 2, 2023

Seeking Western Men

Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise

Monica Liu

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries …

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Interviews with scholars of China about their new books.

MIT Press Podcast March 26, 2023

China's Fear of Contagion

Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example

Mary Sarotte

Hosted by MIT Press
As Mary Sarotte reveals in her Fall 2012 article in International Security, the actions of the Chinese government during the Tiananmen Square protests nearly split the Communist Party of China …
Buddhist Studies March 25, 2023

Toward a New Image of Paramartha

Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited

Ching Keng

Hosted by Jessica Zu
Today I talked to Ching Keng about his book Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2022). Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist …
Asian Review of Books March 23, 2023

Money Machine

A Trailblazing American Venture in China

Weijian Shan

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 2010, Ping An took over Shenzhen Development Bank, ending an experiment that had never been tried before, and not been tried since: a foreign company owning and managing a …
East Asian Studies March 23, 2023

China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy

Gordon Barrett

Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
During the early decades of the Cold War, the People’s Republic of China remained far outside mainstream international science — right?  Gordon Barrett’s new book, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy …
Folklore March 22, 2023

Oral Traditions in Contemporary China

Healing a Nation

Juwen Zhang

Hosted by Timothy Thurston
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation (Lexington Books, 2022) is the newest monograph from Professor Juwen Zhang of Willamette College. Through a historical survey and analyses of oral traditions like …
Disability Studies March 21, 2023

Families We Need

Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China

Erin Raffety

Hosted by Shu Wan
Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China (Rutgers UP, 2022) traces the …
MIT Press Podcast March 20, 2023

China's Century?

Why America's Edge Will Endure

Michael Beckley

Hosted by MIT Press
Much has been made of the rise of China's economy, and some fear that China will surpass the United States as the world's largest economy in the coming years. Michael …
Chinese Studies March 19, 2023

China and Latin America

Development, Agency and Geopolitics

Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
China's role as an economic powerhouse in Latin America is reshaping a region on the cusp of development and change. Since the turn of the century, bilateral trade between China …
Economics March 19, 2023

From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor

A Discussion with Weijian Shan

Weijian Shan

Hosted by Keith Krueger
Having lived through both China’s Great Leap Forward during primary school, then the Cultural Revolution and the closing of schools for ten years, Beijing-born Weijian Shan, instead of a secondary …
East Asian Studies March 17, 2023

One China, Many Taiwans

The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism

Ian Rowen

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell UP, 2023) shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People’s Republic of China pointed over a …
Taiwan on Air March 17, 2023

Reflecting on Hu Tai-li’s Indigenous Ethnographic Work in Taiwan

A Discussion with Scott Simon

Scott Simon

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this episode, our host, Niki Alsford, invites Prof Scott Simon, the Chair of Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa, to share his thoughts and reflections on Prof Hu Tai-li …
Taiwan on Air March 16, 2023

Human Glitches

A Discussion with Lin Hsin-hui

Lin Hsin-hui

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this episode, our podcast host, Ti-han Chang, invited Ms Lin Hsin-hui, a bourgeoning Taiwanese Sci-fi writer to talk about her award-winning short story collection, Human Glitches. Lin comments on …
Taiwan on Air March 15, 2023

Taiwan’s Green Parties

Alternative Politics in Taiwan

Dafydd Fell

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Prof Dafydd Fell, Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. The two …
Taiwan on Air March 14, 2023

Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu

A Discussion with Asio Liu

Asio Liu

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews the Taiwanese movie director Asio Liu on his most recent movie project on the Vietnamese refugee camps in Penghu. Many of us …
Taiwan on Air March 13, 2023

Comics in Taiwan

A Discussion with Norbert Danysz

Norbert Danysz

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
For this installment, we had the pleasure of hosting Norbert Danysz, a PhD candidate at Université Lumière Lyon 2. We chatted about recent developments related to comics in Taiwan – …
Interpretive Political and Social Science March 13, 2023

Marriage Unbound

State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China

Ke Li

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In recent years the authors of a slew of books and articles have debated whether China is moving toward or away from the rule of law. Against this end-of-history approach …
Taiwan on Air March 12, 2023

Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi

A Discussion with Chi Ta-wei

Chi Ta-wei

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this episode, we have the pleasure to have Chi Ta-wei, a renowned Taiwanese writer, talk about his acclaimed LGBTQ+ novel, The Membranes. Chi reviews this work which was published …
Taiwan on Air March 11, 2023

Film Chat: Queer, Sci-Fi and the Family

A Discussion with Maja Korbecka

Maja Korbecka

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
For this installment, we had the pleasure of hosting Maja Korbecka, a PhD candidate at Freie Universitat Berlin. We chatted about five East Asian films released between 2016 and 2022, and …
Taiwan on Air March 10, 2023

Puppets, Gods and Brands

Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan

Teri Silvio

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
For this instalment, we had the pleasure of hosting Teri Silvio, who works as Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. We chatted about Teri’s recently published book …