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Buddhist Studies March 22, 2023

Until Nirvana's Time

Buddhist Songs from Cambodia

Trent Walker

Hosted by Jessica Zu
A unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in English for the first time—translations of forty-five Cambodian Dharma songs, with contextualizing essays and a link to audio of stunning vocal performances.  Trent Walker's …

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Nordic Asia Podcast March 17, 2023

Rethinking Community in Myanmar

Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

Judith Beyer

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people navigate between their ethno-religious …
Southeast Asian Studies March 15, 2023

Unsettled Frontiers

Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands

Sango Mahanty

Hosted by Michele Ford
Like other global frontiers, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands are a hotspot for migration, land claims, and markets for newly introduced commodities. These topics and more are the focus of Sango Mahanty’s …
Taiwan on Air March 14, 2023

Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu

A Discussion with Asio Liu

Asio Liu

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews the Taiwanese movie director Asio Liu on his most recent movie project on the Vietnamese refugee camps in Penghu. Many of us …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 10, 2023

Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes

Societal Transformations and Everyday Life

Arve Hansen

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer, 2022). In this book, Hansen studies the dramatic changes in …
Southeast Asian Studies March 6, 2023

Constitutional Bricolage

Thailand's Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law

Eugénie Mérieau

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why has Thailand had 20 constitutions since 1932? What accounts for the remarkable veneration Thais often feel towards these short-lived documents? How is that military coups can be viewed as …
General History March 3, 2023

Diasporic Cold Warriors

Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s

Chien-Wen Kung

Hosted by Benjamin Goh
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no Chinese community in the region was more vigilant …
East Asian Studies February 24, 2023

Imperial Gateway

Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945

Seiji Shirane

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Seiji Shirane’s Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (Cornell UP, 2022) demonstrates that colonial Taiwan was an imperial center in its own …
Japanese Studies February 22, 2023

The EU Migrant Generation in Asia

Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities

Helena Hof

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Drawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities (Policy …
Economic and Business History February 20, 2023

Accounting for the Fall of Silver

Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913

Michael Schiltz

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international monetary regime. The processes leading …
Women's History February 17, 2023

The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory

Kevin Blackburn

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
"Comfort women" or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War. The role of comfort …
Nordic Asia Podcast February 17, 2023

Challenging the Malayan Nationhood

Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese

Bernard Keo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Are there viable alternatives to the ethnocentric model of nation-state in post-colonial societies? How did the Peranakan, a non-Malay community, imagine a different Malayan nation and strive to materialize it …
Women's History February 16, 2023

Teaching Empire

Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918

Elisabeth Eittreim

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American Indians and, after 1898, Filipinos. Teaching …
Indian Religions February 11, 2023

The Creative South

Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia (2 Volumes)

Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock's The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia (2 volumes; Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022) examines the creative contribution of Maritime Asia towards shaping …
SSEAC Stories February 9, 2023

A New Hope?

Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia

Shiori Shakuto

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In post-growth Japan, some people are looking to Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, as a source of new hope. A notable change in the recent pattern of global migration is the …
Asian Review of Books February 9, 2023

Kopi Dulu

Caffeine-Fuelled Island-hopping Through Indonesia

Mark Eveleigh

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“Kopi Dulu,” means “coffee first” in Indonesian–a common phrase from Indonesians who are happy to have coffee anywhere, anytime and with anyone. At least, that was Mark Eveleigh’s experience, as …
General History February 5, 2023

Inventing the Third World

In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South

Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman

Hosted by Elisa Prosperetti
What is the Third World? The term has essentially been scrubbed from our collective consciousness. What once used to be something concrete seems to have vanished into thin air. Today …
Southeast Asian Studies February 1, 2023

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Encounters with Buddhist Monks

Brooke Schedneck

Hosted by Patrick Jory
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. International tourists visit Buddhist temples, volunteer as …
East Asian Studies January 30, 2023

The Emergence of Global Maoism

China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979

Matthew Galway

Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin, and how do they change once they do? The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 27, 2023

Myanmar Jewellers in China

A Discussion with Juliet Zhu

Juliet Zhu

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
China re-opened border in a final farewell to its strict zero-COVID policy on the 8th of January, 2023. But in the first few weeks of January, the Myanmar side of …