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Nordic Asia Podcast November 25, 2022

The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe

A Discussion with Paul Midford

Paul Midford

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
The brutal assassination of Prime Minister Abe in July this year shocked Japan and has produced large and unexpected consequences for the nation´s politics. In this episode, we examine the …

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Interviews with scholars of East Asia about their new books.

Japanese Studies November 24, 2022

Outcasts of Empire

Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945

Paul D. Barclay

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945 (University of California Press, 2018) by Paul D. Barclay unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down …
Economics November 22, 2022

Trafficking Data

How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty

Aynne Kokas

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United States, requiring that the owner, Beijing-based Bytedance, sell the company to American investors or shut …
Economics November 18, 2022

Outsourcing Repression

Everyday State Power in Contemporary China

Lynette H. Ong

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford UP, 2022), Lynette H. Ong examines how the Chinese …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 18, 2022

Towards a Green China

Gørild Heggelund, Yong Zhou, and Bjorn Leif Brauteseth

Hosted by Arve Hansen
What does the concept of ecological civilisation mean in practice? And how can we understand the relationship between grand visions, legal systems, green politics and development processes on the ground …
Disability Studies November 18, 2022

Disability in Contemporary China

Citizenship, Identity and Culture

Sarah Dauncey

Hosted by Shu Wan
In Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2022), Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to …
East Asian Studies November 18, 2022

Testing the Literary

Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China

Alexander Des Forges

Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
The eight-legged essay (bagu wen) was the one genre of writing that dominated in late imperial China. As the primary mode of expression in which men were schooled, writing and reading shiwen (modern …
Asian Review of Books November 17, 2022

In Asian Waters

Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In the nineteenth century, one group of American merchants reported an odd request from the Vietnamese emperor. An envoy asked if the traders could help procure a commodity brought by …
Biography November 17, 2022

Our Man In Tokyo

An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor

Steve Kemper

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American …
Gender Studies November 16, 2022

The Economics of Gender in China

Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling

Sisi Sung

Hosted by Kelsi Caywood
Alongside rapid socio-economic development, China has achieved remarkable gains in gender equality on metrics like health, education, and labor force participation. Yet, the glass ceiling phenomenon and the underrepresentation of women in …
Chinese Studies November 15, 2022

Mao and Markets

The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Yale University Press, 2022) by Dr. Christopher Marquis & Dr. Kunyuan Qiao presents a thoroughly researched assessment of how China’s economic …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 14, 2022

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

Howard Chiang

Hosted by Thomas Baudinette
As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to …
East Asian Studies November 11, 2022

Renegade Rhymes

Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan

Meredith Schweig

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist Party ended …
Chinese Studies November 9, 2022

When the Iron Bird Flies

China's Secret War in Tibet

Jianglin Li

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet (Stanford University Press, 2022), Jianglin Li presents an untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history …
Japanese Studies November 8, 2022

Reading Medieval Ruins

Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan

Morgan Pitelka

Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval …
Economic and Business History November 7, 2022

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China

Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919

Ghassan Moazzin

Hosted by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
Using previously unexplored and meticulously analyzed sources from China and to a lesser extent Japan, combined with those of Germany and the UK, Ghassan Moazzin provides a refreshing look at a number …
Economic and Business History November 1, 2022

The Rise and Fall of Imperial China

The Social Origins of State Development

Yuhua Wang

Hosted by Javier Mejia
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to …
Economics November 1, 2022

The Tao of Alibaba

Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World

Brian A. Wong

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
This podcast features Brian A. Wong, discussing his new book, The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That is Changing the World (Public Affairs, 2022). Brian joined Alibaba …
East Asian Studies October 28, 2022

The Last Cherry Blossom

Kathleen Burkinshaw

Hosted by Bing Wang
Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family …
Asian Review of Books October 27, 2022

The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders …