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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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Nordic Asia Podcast May 13, 2022

The New Political Cry in South Korea?

The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea

Ju Hui Judy Han

Hosted by Myunghee Lee
The anti-feminist movement in South Korea is gaining global attention. The story has been covered by many western mainstream news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and BBC. Is …
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 …
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

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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Japanese Studies May 4, 2022

A Bowl for a Coin

A Commodity History of Japanese Tea

William Wayne Farris

Hosted by Jingyi Li
A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea (U Hawaii Press, 2019) is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese …
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 …
Political Science May 2, 2022

Outsiders

Memories of Migration to and from North Korea

Markus Bell

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of …
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 …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 29, 2022

The Future of Japanese Studies

A Conversation with Aike P. Rots

Aike P. Rots

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Does the rise of China mean that studying Japan is inexorably declining? Many students become interested in Japan because of popular culture, such manga and video games: is this 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 …
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 …
Japanese Studies April 26, 2022

Post-Fascist Japan

Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War

Laura Hein

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
After Japan’s devastating defeat in World War II, by late 1945, local Japanese turned their energies towards creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to …
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 …
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 …