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Chinese Studies
Interviews with scholars of China about their new books.
June 9, 2026
Shanghai
Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city …
June 6, 2026
Walmart
Walmart: Made in China (Stanford University Press, 2026) by Dr. Eileen Otis tells the story of Walmart's expansion in China, making the case that…
June 3, 2026
Spent Bullets
With Taiwan Travelogue winning the 2026 International Booker Prize, Taiwanese literature in translation has achieved new heights of visibility in the …
June 3, 2026
The Making of China's Post Office
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China — right at the very end of the empire? In The Maki…
May 30, 2026
American-Designed Shopping Malls in China
China’s remarkable journey from poverty to becoming the world’s second-largest economic power is marked by extraordinary urban growth and consumpt…
May 28, 2026
Everyday Occupation
Chunmei Du is an Associate Professor of History at Lingnan University. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of modern China, specifical…
May 19, 2026
Anxious Homes
Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market (Cornell UP, 2026) is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citi…
May 18, 2026
Taiwan
While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, Taiwan: A People’s History (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Evan N. Dawley cent…
May 16, 2026
Cold War Comrades
In this major new interpretation of Sino-North Korean relations, Dr. Gregg A. Brazinsky argues that neither the PRC nor the DPRK would have survived a…
May 13, 2026
Retrench, Defend, Compete
In Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China (Cornell UP, 2025), Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking stra…
May 6, 2026
The Taiwan Tinderbox
J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based security analyst and writer who has spent over two decades documenting Taiwan’s political and security landscape. A …
April 30, 2026
Through the Lens of Taiwan
This podcast episode is hosted by Mart Tšernjuk, the Taiwan Coordinator at the University of Tartu Asia who is talking to Prof. Robert Chen, a leading…
April 25, 2026
The Fragile Dragon
The Fragile Dragon offers a unique exploration of China's rapid transformation and its evolving commercial relationship with the West. Drawing on the …
April 24, 2026
The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society
In a society undergoing rapid transformation, how do people engage in debates around a foreign concept and in doing so, pursue contested political fut…
April 20, 2026
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship (Routledge, 2025) offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a …
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…