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About Laurie Dickmeyer

Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth-century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter @LDickmeyer.

NBN Episodes hosted by Laurie:

Chinese Studies August 13, 2023

Networks of Faith and Profit

Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE

Yiwen Li

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
In her book, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE (Cambridge UP, 2023), associate professor of history at City University of Hong …
Chinese Studies May 24, 2023

Reproductive Realities in Modern China

Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
In Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge UP, 2022), assistant professor of history at Missouri State University, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez explores the longue durée history …
Chinese Studies October 26, 2022

Queer China

Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism

Hongwei Bao

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
In Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Nottingham Hongwei Bao returns with a …
Chinese Studies February 17, 2021

In China's Wake

How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South

Nicholas Jepson

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
From 2002 to 2013, China’s rapid economic growth caused a boom in the prices of commodities—particularly of metals, fuel, and soybeans. According to political economist Dr. Nick Jepson, the commodity …
Chinese Studies December 29, 2020

Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities

Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes

John Wei

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinophone Asia. Young …
East Asian Studies September 30, 2019

Becoming Taiwanese

Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s

Evan N. Dawley

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
How was the Taiwanese identity constructed? Dr. Evan N. Dawley, an associate professor of history at Goucher College, explores this question in his new book Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a …
East Asian Studies August 29, 2019

Qing Travelers to the Far West

Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China

Jenny Huangfu Day

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
Historians in the English-speaking world have long studied how European and American travelers and diplomats conceptualized China, but, especially in recent years, few scholars have attempted to thoroughly understand the …
East Asian Studies June 24, 2019

China in the World

An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization

Jennifer Hubbert

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and …
East Asian Studies April 29, 2019

Strait Rituals

China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958

Pang Yang Huei

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War. Mao’s China bombarded Nationalist-controlled islands, and U.S. President Eisenhower threatened the use of nuclear …
East Asian Studies April 12, 2019

Betraying Big Brother

The Feminist Awakening in China

Leta Hong Fincher

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually …
East Asian Studies December 4, 2018

Legal Lessons

Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989

Jennifer Altehenger

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
In her new book, historian Jennifer Altehenger, a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London, grapples with the complex issue of how authorities and cultural workers attempted …
East Asian Studies September 24, 2018

Imperial Twilight

The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age

Stephen R. Platt

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
The reason for Great Britain’s war against China in the First Opium War (1839-42) is often taken as a given. British merchants wanted to “open” trade beyond the port of …
East Asian Studies August 21, 2018

China’s War on Smuggling

Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965

Philip Thai

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
From petty runs to organized trafficking, the illicit activity of smuggling on the China coast was inherently dramatic, but now historian Philip Thai has also identified China’s history of smuggling …
East Asian Studies July 3, 2018

The World in Guangzhou

Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace

Gordon Mathews with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
When we think of globalization and global cities, we might be inclined to think of New York or London. Yet in recent years, Guangzhou, the central manufacturing node in the …
East Asian Studies June 25, 2018

Queer Comrades

Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

Hongwei Bao

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
Hongwei Bao’s book is a thoughtful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in China. This work stems from the term and identity tongzhi, which means “comrade” and in more …
East Asian Studies May 3, 2018

China’s Hegemony

Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination

Ji-Young Lee

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
Ji-Young Lee’s book investigates the changing nature of tribute relations during the Ming and High Qing between a dominant China and its less powerful neighbors, Korea and Japan. China’s Hegemony …