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About Ed Pulford
Ed Pulford is an Anthropologist and Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His research and teaching focus on anthropological and historical approaches to Eurasian borderlands, Sino-Russian relations, and comparative experiences of socialism and empire. He has lived and worked in China, Russia, Japan, and Korea, and his first book Mirrorlands explores Russia-China connections across time via a travelogue through the countries’ shared borderlands.
Ed Pulford is an Anthropologist and Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on friendships and histories between the Chinese, Korean and Russian worlds, and indigeneity in northeast Asia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ed:
May 9, 2024
Sparks
Even as most contemporary states look to history in order to legitimize their existence in some way or other, the past – and narrations of it – hold p…
January 6, 2024
Media Politics in China
Despite its extraordinary diversity, life in the People’s Republic of China is all too often viewed mainly through the lens of politics, with dynamics…
December 27, 2023
Sovereignty Experiments
Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants are seen to present problems, …
April 30, 2023
Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine
Uncertainty about the way a state should be working is not necessarily produced by having multiple voices offering competing ideas about it. As Maura …
February 10, 2023
Knowing Manchuria
Among all the world’s most storied and legend-filled regions, the place known to some over time as ‘Manchuria’ has had an especially wide range of ide…
December 2, 2022
Fragile Cargo
The two parallel Palace Museums in Beijing and Taiwan, and their separate collections of thousands of precious artworks and artifacts from imperial ti…
July 26, 2022
Designing Reform
China’s urban landscapes are full of radically different architectural styles which memorialise different eras in the country’s political past, from t…
May 6, 2022
Dancing on Bones
Present-day relations between ‘the West’ and each of China, Russia and North Korea are often fractious to say the least, yet today’s global atmosphere…
April 13, 2022
Terror Capitalism
The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to greatly increased awareness of the region's history a…
November 24, 2021
Sound of the Border
When faced with some of the complex identity questions which often arise in borderlands, Koreans in China – known as Chosonjok in Korean, Chaoxianzu i…
November 1, 2021
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea
In the face of a Korean cultural world preoccupied with newness, literary output from the more measured and regulated Choson period (1392-1910) can se…
September 7, 2021
Imperial Romance
As in colonial situations elsewhere, Korean experiences of Japanese empire featured many attempts by the imperial authorities to regulate intimate asp…
August 9, 2021
Pure and True
Compared to their Uyghur and Kazakh co-religionists in Xinjiang, China’s largest single Muslim group – the Hui – has received less media and scholarly…
July 16, 2021
Circuit Listening
Music from East Asia has recently been making its way round the world on waves created and mediated by new technologies and global interconnections. T…
June 22, 2021
A Time of Lost Gods
If China’s Mao era is seen by many as a time of great upheaval and chaos, there are also people and places for whom things appear quite different. Wri…
May 7, 2021
Empire and Righteous Nation
Being arguably each side’s most enduring international bond, the China-Korea relationship has long been of great practical and symbolic importance to …
January 21, 2021
Being in North Korea
As well as presenting practical challenges, addressing the question ‘what is it like in North Korea?’ raises ethical concerns around who is entitled t…
December 30, 2020
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
The 1930s-40s expansion of the Japanese empire was marked by significant interest among Japan-based scholars and policy-makers in China’s Muslim popul…
November 20, 2020
Securing China's Northwest Frontier
Greater interest in what is happening in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang in recent years has generated a proportional need for context, an…
September 23, 2020
Champions Day
Shanghai’s status as a bustling, international place both now and in the past hardly needs much introduction, although the centrality of horse racing …
September 8, 2020
Beyond the Steppe Frontier
The fact that the vast border between China and Russia is often overlooked goes hand-in-hand with a lack of understanding of the ordinary citizens in …
July 20, 2020
Spies and Scholars
The ways in which states and empires spy on and study one another has changed a great deal over time in line with shifting political priorities, writt…
July 7, 2020
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960
The question of how a state decides what its official language is going to be, or indeed whether it even needs one, is never simple, and this may be p…
June 18, 2020
Land Wars
Many people outside China, and indeed many urbanites living in the country, rarely think about its vast rural areas. Yet today’s People’s Republic in …