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East Asian Studies
Interviews with scholars of East Asia about their new books.
November 27, 2024
Taiwanese-Language Cinema
Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered (Edinburgh UP, 2024), edited by Chris Berry, Wafa Ghermani, Corrado Neri, and Ming-yeh T. Raw…
November 23, 2024
Music and the Making of Modern Japan
Margaret Mehl’s Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert (Open Book 2024) examines the ways in which Western classical (or “ar…
November 19, 2024
The State's Sexuality
The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Park Jeong-Mi uncov…
November 17, 2024
General He Yingqin
General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge UP, 2016) is a revisionist study of the career of General He Yingqin, one of the…
November 16, 2024
From Click to Boom
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
November 7, 2024
Backstage in Hong Kong
Today, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. But when John Duffus landed in Hong Kong in 1979 as the Philharmoni…
October 29, 2024
Digital Masquerade
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital …
October 28, 2024
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
Dr. Dennis Wuerthner’s Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is the first complete English translat…
October 25, 2024
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Why should we focus on Taiwan to understand the future risks facing the world? Professor Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the…
October 24, 2024
Nehru's Bandung
In 1955, the leaders of 29 Asian and African countries flock to the small city of Bandung, Indonesia, for the first-ever Afro-Asian conference. India …
October 21, 2024
Ginkgo Village
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China (Anu Press, 2023) provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China…
October 20, 2024
Confucian Feminism
In Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life (Bloomsbury, 2024), Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee expands the theoretical horizons of feminism by using ch…
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …
October 18, 2024
China Under Mao
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that 1949 was actually the beginning, not the end, of the Chinese revolution." Building from this premise,…
October 18, 2024
Samurai with Telephones
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching i…
October 14, 2024
Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in…
October 11, 2024
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China
The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empir…
October 11, 2024
Afterlives of Letters
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature bec…
October 10, 2024
Coalitions of the Weak
In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the el…
October 9, 2024
The Fragility of China
In this episode of Madison's Notes, we sit down with Dennis Unkovic to discuss his latest book, The Fragility of China (Encounter Books, 2024). Unkovi…