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NBN Episodes hosted by Carla:
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,…
December 30, 2023
Curating Revolution
“In Mao’s China, to curate revolution was to make it material.” Denise Y. Ho’s new book explores this premise in a masterful account of exhibitionary…
May 21, 2021
The Earthquake Observers
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recording…
May 21, 2021
Articulating the World
In the words of Joseph Rouse’s new book, “The most pressing challenge for naturalism today is to show how to account for our own capacities for scient…
December 17, 2018
After Eunuchs
Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, an…
December 6, 2018
General Intellects
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. The chapters of General…
November 20, 2018
Discognition
Steven Shaviro’s book Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016) opens with a series of questions: What is consciousness? How does subjective experience occu…
October 17, 2018
Making Time
Yulia Frumer’s new book follows roughly three hundred years of transformations in how time was conceptualized, measured, and materialized in Japan. Ma…
October 11, 2018
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions (Brill, 2018) is a masterful…
September 25, 2018
Forgotten Disease
Hilary A. Smith’s new book examines the evolution of a Chinese disease concept, foot qi (jiao qi) from its documented origins in the fourth century to…
September 13, 2018
The Art of Being Governed
At the heart of Michael Szonyi’s new book are two questions: 1) How did ordinary people in the Ming deal with their obligations to provide manpower to…
August 31, 2018
The End of Concern
If you work in Asian studies as a scholarly field, you should read Fabio Lanza’s new book. The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian St…
August 13, 2018
The Ecology of Attention
We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource and value, labor, class, and currency are being rec…
August 10, 2018
The Pidgin Warrior
“Big boys, the story in this little book is told for you.” Thus begins the preface to Zhang Tianyi’s The Pidgin Warrior (Balestier Press, 2017), as…
August 2, 2018
Textures of Mourning
Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention, and why that matters deeply …
May 18, 2017
Face/On
Sharrona Pearl's new book is an absolute pleasure to read. Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other (The University of Chicago Press, 201…
May 18, 2017
The Social Life of Inkstones
Dorothy Ko's new book is a must-read. Troubling the hierarchy of head over hands and the propensity to denigrate craftsmen in Chinese history, The Soc…
May 13, 2017
Synthetic
Sophia Roosth's wonderful new book follows researchers clustered around MIT beginning in 2003 who named themselves synthetic biologists. A historicall…
May 13, 2017
A World Trimmed with Fur
Jonathan Schlesinger's new book makes a compelling case for the significance of Manchu and Mongolian sources and archival sources in particular in tel…
May 4, 2017
The Edge of Knowing
Roy Bing Chan's new book explores twentieth-century Chinese literature that emphasizes sleeping and dreaming as a way to reckon with the trauma of mod…
May 4, 2017
Placing Outer Space
What kind of object is a planet? Lisa Messeri's new book asks and addressed this question in a fascinating ethnography that explores how scientific pr…
May 2, 2017
The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History
In the preface to his new book, Timothy Cheek calls out a widespread tendency to focus on dissidents when engaging with Chinese intellectuals. (This i…
April 25, 2017
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto's new book…
April 25, 2017
What Love Is
Carrie Jenkins' new book is a model for what public philosophy can be. Beautifully written, thoughtful, and compellingly and carefully argued, What Lo…