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East Asian Studies
January 25, 2021
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
Benno Weiner
Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell University Press, 2020) Benno Weiner provides an in-depth study of what happened when the Chinese Revolution came to Amdo, a Tibetan …
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East Asian Studies
January 25, 2021
Constructing Empire
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
Bill Sewell
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
What happens to everyday-life in a city when it becomes subsumed into an empire? Who becomes responsible for the everyday building and management of the new imperial enclave? How do …
East Asian Studies
January 21, 2021
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Ian M. Miller
Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
Ian M. Miller’s book Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2020) offers a transformation of our understanding of China’s early modern …
East Asian Studies
January 20, 2021
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
Roberta Zavoretti
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences …
East Asian Studies
January 18, 2021
Realistic Revolution
Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989
Els van Dongen
Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
What is the role of the intellectual? Is violence, not to mention radical change, necessary? Can there be a revolution without them? Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics …
East Asian Studies
January 14, 2021
Staging Personhood
Costuming in Early Qing Drama
Guojun Wang
Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
Much is known about the Qing sartorial regulations and how the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. But what happened on the stage? What …
Asian Review of Books
January 14, 2021
Three Asian Divas
Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou
David Chaffetz
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The “diva” is a common trope when we talk about culture. We normally think of the diva as a Western construction: the opera singer, the Broadway actress, the movie star …
East Asian Studies
January 13, 2021
A Fashionable Century
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing
Rachel Silberstein
Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
Rachel Silberstein’s book A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing (University of Washington Press, 2020) reveals how Qing fashion was produced at the intersection of commerce …
Chinese Studies
January 8, 2021
Recovering Histories
Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China
Nicholas Bartlett
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became “easier to …
Japanese Studies
January 7, 2021
The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction
The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon
William C. Hedberg
Hosted by Jingyi Li
The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into …
East Asian Studies
December 30, 2020
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
Kelly A. Hammond
Hosted by Ed Pulford
The 1930s-40s expansion of the Japanese empire was marked by significant interest among Japan-based scholars and policy-makers in China’s Muslim population and how best to write them into a new …
Chinese Studies
December 29, 2020
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
John Wei
Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinophone Asia. Young …
Indian Ocean World
December 24, 2020
The Blue Frontier
Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire
Ronald C. Po
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a …
East Asian Studies
December 21, 2020
Asymmetrical Neighbors
Borderland State-Building Between China and Southeast Asia
Enze Han
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State-Building Between China and Southeast Asia (Oxford UP, 2019) explains the variations in state building across the borderland area between China, Myanmar, and Thailand. It presents a …
Philosophy
December 21, 2020
The Art of Chinese Philosophy
Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them
Paul Goldin
Hosted by Alexus McLeod
Paul Goldin's book The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (Princeton UP, 2020) provides an unmatched introduction to eight of the most important works of …
Economics
December 18, 2020
China's Gilded Age
The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
Yuen Yuen Ang
Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
Today I talked to Yuen Yuen Ang, a Professor of political science and China expert at the University of Michigan. We spoke already in summer 2019 to discuss her previous book …
East Asian Studies
December 16, 2020
The Cost of Belonging
An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown
Sharon J. Yoon
Hosted by Ann Choi
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea who often …
Buddhist Studies
December 15, 2020
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition
Geoffrey C. Goble
Hosted by Luke Thompson
In his recent book, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2019), Geoffrey Goble examines the emergence and early history of …
East Asian Studies
December 9, 2020
Monks in Motion
Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea
Jack Meng-Tat Chia
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea (Oxford University Press 2020) is the first monograph in the English language to explore the transnationally connected history of …
East Asian Studies
December 8, 2020
China's Good War
How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
Rana Mitter
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
Although World War II had been largely remembered in the People’s Republic of China as an experience of victimization since its founding in 1949, that view has been changing since …
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