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About Huiying Chen

Huiying Chen is an Assistant Professor in History at Purdue University. She is interested in the circulation of people, goods, and ideas and how societies in history and today cope with the challenges wrought by increased travel in aspects of culture, politics, commerce, law, science, and technology.

Huiying Chen is an Assistant Professor in History at Purdue University. She is interested in the circulation of people, goods, and ideas and how societies in history and today cope with the challenges wrought by increased travel in aspects of culture, politics, commerce, law, science, and technology.

NBN Episodes hosted by Huiying:

East Asian Studies June 30, 2023

The Global in the Local

A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China

Xin Zhang

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In The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China (Harvard UP, 2023), Dr. Xin Zhang tells the story of globalization in the nineteenth and …
East Asian Studies April 26, 2023

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

Glimpses of China's Hidden Past

Robert J. Antony

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History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), the author Robert J. Antony provides glimpses into China’s hidden …
East Asian Studies December 14, 2022

The Golden Key

Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)

Amanda Wangwright

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The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949) (Brill, 2021), authored by Amanda Wangwright, recovers the history …
East Asian Studies August 9, 2022

Opportunity in Crisis

Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China

Steven B. Miles

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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 July 6, 2022

Timber and Forestry in Qing China

Sustaining the Market

Meng Zhang

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Focusing on timber in Qing China (1644-1911), Dr. Meng Zhang's (Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University) new book, Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (U Washington Press, 2021) traces the …
East Asian Studies September 17, 2021

The Global White Snake

Liang Luo

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Liang Luo's book The Global White Snake (U Michigan Press, 2021) examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across …
East Asian Studies June 30, 2021

Corporate Conquests

Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China

C. Patterson Giersch

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Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and …