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Nordic Asia Podcast December 6, 2021

COP26 from a Southeast Asian Perspective

Sharon Seah

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
COP26 was billed as the make or break event in the fight against climate change. In conversation with Quynh Le Vo, Sharon Seah, coordinator of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s Climate …

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Interviews with scholars of China about their new books.

Chinese Studies December 6, 2021

The Stone and the Wireless

Mediating China, 1861–1906

Shaoling Ma

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
In this episode, I interview Shaoling Ma, professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS about her new book, The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 (Duke UP, 2021). In this …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 3, 2021

Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19

Lauri Paltemaa and Hermann Aubié

Lauri Paltemaa and Hermann Aubié

Hosted by Satoko Naito
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread to Europe and other parts of the globe in spring of 2020, the Chinese government started reporting donations of Personal Protective Equipment as well as …
Economic and Business History December 3, 2021

Economic Thought in Modern China

Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937

Margherita Zanasi

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier …
Chinese Studies November 30, 2021

The Way of the Barbarians

Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China

Shao-yun Yang

Hosted by Lance Pursey
Shao-yun Yang's The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (University of Washington Press, 2019) challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition …
East Asian Studies November 24, 2021

Sound of the Border

Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China

Sunhee Koo

Hosted by Ed Pulford
When faced with some of the complex identity questions which often arise in borderlands, Koreans in China – known as Chosonjok in Korean, Chaoxianzu in Chinese – have long seemed …
Asian Review of Books November 24, 2021

Distant Shores

Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier

Melissa Macauley

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“The Europeans raise all the cattle, but the Chinese get all the milk.” This joke, told in colonial Singapore, was indicative of the importance of the Chinese diaspora throughout Southeast …
East Asian Studies November 23, 2021

Indigenous Cultural Translation

A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

Darryl Sterk

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale (Routledge, 2020) is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous …
General History November 23, 2021

The Rise of the Civilizational State

Christopher Coker

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
In recent years the resurgence of great power competition has gripped the headlines, with new emerging powers (such as Russia and China) seeking to challenge the American and Western hegemony …
Philosophy November 19, 2021

Reconsidering the Life of Power

Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy

James Garrison

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy by James Garrison (SUNY Press 2021), argues that the tradition of Confucian philosophy can provide …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 19, 2021

Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking

A Conversation with Qian Huang

Joanne Kuai

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
What is digital vigilantism? How do Chinese citizens seek justice online? How does digital vigilantism reflect contemporary Chinese technological and socio-political development? In a conversation with Joanne Kuai, a visiting …
Asian Review of Books November 18, 2021

The Lettuce Diaries

How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China

Xavier Naville

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Many Western entrepreneurs and businesses have foundered in trying to set up shop in China. Different expectations, different ways of doing business, different institutions and platforms—all come together to remove …
Buddhist Studies November 18, 2021

The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje

Master of Mahamudra

Ruth Gamble

Hosted by Cuilan Liu
A scholarly yet accessible biography of the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, one of the great historical figures of Tibetan Buddhism.  Known for his mastery of teachings across sectarian lines, his …
East Asian Studies November 17, 2021

Lineages of the Literary

Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China

Nicole Willock

Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
What happened to the Buddhist scholars who stayed behind in Tibet and China after the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans fled from the People’s Liberation Army in 1959 …
Chinese Studies November 9, 2021

The Funeral of Mr. Wang

Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Andrew B. Kipnis

Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Today I spoke to Professor Andrew Kipnis about his book on social change in urban China from the perspective of funerals. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land …
Intellectual History November 5, 2021

Governing the Dead

Martyrs, Memorials, And Necrocitizenship in Modern China

Linh D. Vu

Hosted by Thomas Kingston
In Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, And Necrocitizenship in Modern China (Cornell UP, 2021), Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist regime consolidated control by honoring its millions of …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 5, 2021

The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance

Bertil Lintner

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
Who are the Wa of Myanmar and how, in three decades, have they built a force that is now the largest non-state military actor in Asia-Pacific? How does China’s economic …
East Asian Studies November 5, 2021

Remapping the Contested Sinosphere

The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan

Chia-Rong Wu

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. From the early seventeenth century to …
Chinese Studies November 4, 2021

Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration

Carlos M. Piocos

Hosted by Clara Iwasaki
In Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration (Routledge, 2021), Carlos M. Piocos explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of …
East Asian Studies October 26, 2021

Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation

Hongjian Wang

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several generations of Chinese writers and literary scholars since it was introduced to China …