About Clara Iwasaki

I am an assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Alberta. I have published on Chinese literature and its relationships to translation and transnationalism. My expertise is in Chinese and Sinophone literature, and the cinemas of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Clara Iwasaki is an assistant professor in the East Asian Studies department at the University of Alberta.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Clara:

Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

June 2, 2022

Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance

Wen Liu and JN Chien
Hosted by Clara Iwasaki

In this episode, I talk to two of the editors of Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism (Palgrave MacMillan,…

Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)

April 5, 2022

Arise Africa, Roar China

Yunxiang Gao
Hosted by Clara Iwasaki

Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (UNC Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between …

Leilei Chen, "Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding" (U Regina Press, 2016)

February 9, 2022

Re-Orienting China

Leilei Chen
Hosted by Clara Iwasaki

Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding (U Regina Press, 2016) challenges the notion of the travel writer as imperialistic…

Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

December 21, 2021

Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw

Hua Li
Hosted by Clara Iwasaki

The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chi…

Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)

November 4, 2021

Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration

Carlos M. Piocos
Hosted by Clara Iwasaki

In Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration (Routledge, 2021), Carlos M. Piocos explores the politics of gendered labor migration …