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East Asian Studies May 17, 2022

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Lessons from East Asia

Christopher Carothers

Hosted by Keith Krueger
Political corruption remains … one of the most intriguing and challenging issues in social science research and public policy, perhaps because although it occurs in virtually all polities, its causes …

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Law May 13, 2022

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World

What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere

Mark L. Clifford

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this account of the rapid erosion of liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil and political rights in Hong Kong, Mark L. Clifford's latest book provides …
SSEAC Stories May 12, 2022

Geopolitics in the Mekong Region

The Role of Chinese Energy Politics in Laos and Cambodia

Andrea Haefner

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Energy, and who controls it, has emerged as a major issue in Southeast Asia in recent years. Nowhere is this issue more evident than in the Mekong region, where China’s …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 9, 2022

Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic

A Conversation with Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
How has digital nationalism manifested amid the Covid-19 pandemic in China? How does anti-American sentiment in China feed into the disinformation campaigns in regard to the war on Ukraine? What …
Anthropology May 9, 2022

The Sound of Salvation

Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China

Guangtian Ha

Hosted by Irene Promodh
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in …
Anthropology May 9, 2022

Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell UP, 2022) is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and …
Law May 6, 2022

Indelible City

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history with her own first hand account of the spirit …
East Asian Studies May 6, 2022

Dancing on Bones

History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea

Katie Stallard

Hosted by Ed Pulford
Present-day relations between ‘the West’ and each of China, Russia and North Korea are often fractious to say the least, yet today’s global atmosphere of menace or crisis just as …
Gender Studies May 4, 2022

Vulgar Beauty

Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

Mila Zuo

Hosted by Ann Choi
Yi’s eyes soften as he watches Jiazhi sing a Chinese folk song with subtle, feminine movements in the film, Lust, Caution. The room fills with laughter when Ali Wong unabashedly enacts …
East Asian Studies May 3, 2022

China in the World

Culture, Politics, and World Vision

Ban Wang

Hosted by Linshan Jiang
Ban Wang's book China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision (Duke University Press, 2022), traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a …
General History April 29, 2022

Forging Leninism in China

Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934

Joseph Fewsmith

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the …
National Security April 29, 2022

Chinese Communist Espionage

An Intelligence Primer

Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
In Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer (Naval Institute Press, 2019), authors Mathew Brazil and Peter Mattis present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage. An introduction-cum-reference …
Economic and Business History April 27, 2022

Red Silk

Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry

Robert Cliver

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry (Harvard UP, 2020) is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions …
Literature April 26, 2022

The Membranes

A Novel

Ta-wei Chi

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the …
East Asian Studies April 26, 2022

Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics

Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao

Hosted by Linshan Jiang
Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (Syracuse University Press, 2021), co-edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, offers an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the …
Political Science April 25, 2022

Policing China

Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest

Suzanne E. Scoggins

Hosted by Susan Liebell
China has the reputation for being a strong security state. After the pro-democracy Tiananmen protests, the Chinese government moved to increase stability maintenance – and that approach is reflected in …
East Asian Studies April 21, 2022

Intimate Communities

Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

Hosted by Linshan Jiang
When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged …
Diplomatic History April 21, 2022

Americans in China

Encounters with the People's Republic

Terry Lautz

Hosted by Dong Wang
Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic (Oxford UP, 2022) tells the stories of men and women who have lived and worked in China from before the Communist era …
East Asian Studies April 19, 2022

Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context

A Translation Studies Perspective

Szu-Wen Kung

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context (Routledge, 2021) explores the social, cultural, and linguistic implications of translation of Taiwan literature for transnational cultural exchange. It demonstrates principally how asymmetrical …
Central Asian Studies April 18, 2022

Sinostan

China's Inadvertent Empire

Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen

Hosted by Luca Anceschi
I am very pleased to host on the podcast Raffaello Pantucci, one of the authors of Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire [Oxford University Press 2022]. This great new book approaches through a very …