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August 9, 2022
Opportunity in Crisis
Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China
Steven B. Miles
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Huiying Chen
Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China (Harvard UP, 2021) explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and …
East Asian Studies
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Interviews with scholars of East Asia about their new books.
Diplomatic History
August 8, 2022
China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China During the Cold War
Ariane Knüsel
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Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and …
Food
August 8, 2022
What a Mushroom Lives For
Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
Michael J. Hathaway
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Miranda Melcher
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press, 2022) by Dr. Michael Hathaway pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western …
Nordic Asia Podcast
August 5, 2022
China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy
A Discussion with Einari Kisel
Einari Kisel
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Nordic Asia Podcast
How green is green energy really? And what role does Asia, more specifically China play in the transition to green energy? On the 7th of July, International Energy Agency came …
Japanese Studies
August 5, 2022
Middlemen of Modernity
Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan
Christopher Craig
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Ran Zwigenberg
Christopher Craig’s Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2021) is a thoroughly research and engaging study of the role of local elites …
Asian Review of Books
August 4, 2022
Shrimp to Whale
South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
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Nicholas Gordon
If there’s a country that “punches above its weight”, it’s South Korea. It’s home to some of the world’s largest and most important companies, and the source of pop culture …
Writ Large
August 4, 2022
On "The Story of the Stone"
A Discussion with Ronald Egan
Ronald Egan
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Zachary Davis
The 1750s are remembered as a high point of China's Qing Dynasty: a time of power, prestige, and social harmony. But The Story of the Stone paints a different picture …
East Asian Studies
August 2, 2022
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
North Korea and the Third World
Benjamin R. Young
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Miranda Melcher
Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era …
Japanese Studies
August 2, 2022
Sino-Japanese Reflections
Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh
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Jingyi Li
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh's edited volume Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity (de Gruyter, 2022) offers ten richly detailed case studies that …
Nordic Asia Podcast
August 1, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
A Discussion with Sean King
Sean King
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Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Is a Chinese invasion on Taiwan a storm on the horizon when the West is busy with the Ukrainian war? Will Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan in August, the …
Japanese Studies
August 1, 2022
Eavesdropping on the Emperor
Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan
Peter Kornicki
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Jingyi Li
When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who interrogated them? When Japanese maps and plans …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
August 1, 2022
Tasting Paradise on Earth
Jiangnan Foodways
Jin Feng
Hosted by
Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Jin Feng of Grinnell College about her fascinating book Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (U Washington Press, 2019). Preparing and consuming food is an integral part …
East Asian Studies
July 26, 2022
Designing Reform
Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992
Cole Roskam
Hosted by
Ed Pulford
China’s urban landscapes are full of radically different architectural styles which memorialise different eras in the country’s political past, from the remains of imperial palaces or city walls, to Republican-era …
Chinese Studies
July 25, 2022
Chinese Village Life Today
Building Families in an Age of Transition
Gonçalo Santos
Hosted by
Suvi Rautio
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra), about his new book, Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition, which was published …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 22, 2022
Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
Sara Park
Hosted by
Duncan McCargo
Why does Japanese immigration policy have such a bad name? What are the historical origins of tight immigration policies? Where have these policies left immigrants of Korean descent, many of …
Japanese Studies
July 21, 2022
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
A Transnational History
Ethan Mark
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Shatrunjay Mall
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History (Bloomsbury, 2018) by Ethan Mark draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate …
Chinese Studies
July 20, 2022
Cadre Country
How China Became the Chinese Communist Party
John Fitzgerald
Hosted by
Dong Wang
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And …
East Asian Studies
July 19, 2022
Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond
Relational Citizenship
Hsin-I Cheng
Hosted by
Li-Ping Chen
Citizenship is traditionally viewed as a legal status to be possessed. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship (Lexington, 2021) proposes the concept of relational citizenship to articulate the value-laden …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 15, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
A Discussion with Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Hyung-Gu Lynn
Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Hyung-Gu Lynn
Hosted by
Duncan McCargo
How can we get our articles in Asian studies published? What criteria should we use in selecting what journals to target? On what basis do journal editors make decisions on …
Asian Review of Books
July 14, 2022
Beethoven in Beijing
Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China
Jennifer Lin
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Nicholas Gordon
In 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra boarded a Pan Am 707 plane in Philadelphia for a once-in-a-lifetime journey: a multi-city tour of Maoist China, months after Nixon’s history-making visit. There was …
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