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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Susanne Klien, "Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society" (SUNY Press, 2020)
56 mins; October 06, 2021
Gideon Fujiwara, "From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
53 mins; October 05, 2021
Ying Jia Tan, "Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955" (Cornell UP, 2021)
77 hours 1 min; October 01, 2021
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
26 mins; October 01, 2021
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
87 hours 58 mins; October 01, 2021
Jeevan Vasagar, "Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
27 mins; September 30, 2021
Erica Baffelli et al., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
50 mins; September 29, 2021
Minhua Ling, "The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge" (Stanford UP, 2019)
81 hours 46 mins; September 29, 2021
Kimiko Tanaka and Nan E. Johnson, "Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan" (Carolina Academic Press, 2021)
64 hours 49 mins; September 29, 2021
Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; September 28, 2021
Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
86 hours 13 mins; September 25, 2021
Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
49 mins; September 24, 2021
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
38 mins; September 23, 2021
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
95 hours 53 mins; September 22, 2021
M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
82 hours 47 mins; September 22, 2021
Dafydd Fell, "Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
74 hours 48 mins; September 21, 2021
Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
89 hours 20 mins; September 17, 2021
Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
88 hours 50 mins; September 14, 2021
Shen Yang, "More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter" (Balestier Press, 2021)
49 mins; September 13, 2021
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
28 mins; September 10, 2021
Su Yun Kim, "Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945" (Cornell UP, 2020)
68 hours 25 mins; September 07, 2021
Jan Bardsley, "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 24 mins; September 06, 2021
Anthony S. Rausch, "Resolving the Contemporary Tensions of Regional Places: What Japan Can Teach Us" (2021)
55 mins; September 03, 2021
Lindsey Miller, "North Korea: Like Nowhere Else" (September, 2021)
34 mins; September 02, 2021
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
81 hours 6 mins; September 01, 2021
Zachary M. Howlett, "Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
75 hours 29 mins; August 27, 2021
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; August 26, 2021
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
36 mins; August 19, 2021
Jeremy Black, "Strategy and the Second World War: How the War Was Won, and Lost" (Robinson, 2021)
31 mins; August 18, 2021
Tom Phuong Le, "Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century" (Columbia UP, 2021)
53 mins; August 18, 2021
Grace M. Cho, "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
60 hours 26 mins; August 18, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; August 16, 2021
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; August 16, 2021
Hanno Jentzsch, "Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
40 mins; August 11, 2021
Katie Cummer and Lynne D. DiStefano, "Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
59 mins; August 03, 2021
Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 58 mins; August 03, 2021
Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
59 mins; August 03, 2021
Daryl R. Ireland, "John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man" (Baylor UP, 2020)
106 hours 8 mins; August 02, 2021
Chris Miller, "We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin" (Harvard UP, 2021)
47 mins; July 29, 2021
Jennifer Pan, "Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
60 hours 52 mins; July 29, 2021
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
92 hours 15 mins; July 28, 2021
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
88 hours 5 mins; July 28, 2021
The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics
39 mins; July 26, 2021
Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance
37 mins; July 23, 2021
Tonio Andrade, "The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China" (Princeton UP, 2021)
54 mins; July 21, 2021
Kailing Xie, "Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
74 hours 11 mins; July 21, 2021
Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags, "Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past" (Routledge, 2020)
57 mins; July 20, 2021
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
38 mins; July 16, 2021
Michael Berry, “China, Culturally Speaking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
148 hours 2 mins; July 16, 2021
Andrew F. Jones, "Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
69 hours 54 mins; July 16, 2021
Christian C. Lentz, "Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam" (Yale UP, 2019)
35 mins; July 15, 2021
Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)
84 hours 8 mins; July 15, 2021
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, "Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
74 hours 26 mins; July 15, 2021
Eric C. Rath, "Oishii: The History of Sushi" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
56 mins; July 14, 2021
Arunabh Ghosh, "Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China" (Princeton UP, 2020)
80 hours 3 mins; July 07, 2021
Cees Heere, "Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; July 07, 2021
The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement: A Discussion with Bill Taylor
32 mins; July 02, 2021
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
56 mins; July 02, 2021
Allison Alexy, "Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
54 mins; July 02, 2021
C. Patterson Giersch, "Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China" (Stanford UP, 2020)
72 hours 23 mins; June 30, 2021
Peter E. Hamilton, "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
73 hours 24 mins; June 29, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
66 hours 21 mins; June 29, 2021
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
47 mins; June 25, 2021
Emily Ng, "A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao" (U California Press, 2020)
62 hours 28 mins; June 22, 2021
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
61 hours 1 min; June 21, 2021
Manfred Elfstrom, "Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; June 18, 2021
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
25 mins; June 18, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
65 hours 38 mins; June 18, 2021
William A. Callahan, "Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2020)
28 mins; June 14, 2021
Matthew Carl Strecher, "The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
84 hours 52 mins; June 14, 2021
Douglas W. Shadle, "Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony" (Oxford UP, 2021)
70 hours 0 mins; June 11, 2021
Yao Li, "Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
63 hours 40 mins; June 11, 2021
Sven Saaler, "Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan" (Brill, 2020)
54 mins; June 07, 2021
Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
75 hours 51 mins; June 07, 2021
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
23 mins; June 07, 2021
Eric Schluessel, "Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia" (Columbia UP, 2020)
72 hours 54 mins; June 04, 2021
Women Singer-Songwriters of 1970s Japan: A Discussion with Satoko Naito
28 mins; June 04, 2021
William P. Brecher, "Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930" (Brill, 2021)
45 mins; May 31, 2021
Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
64 hours 51 mins; May 28, 2021
Emei Burell, "We Served the People: My Mother's Stories" (Archaia, 2020)
35 mins; May 27, 2021
Yinghong Cheng, "Discourses of Race and Rising China" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
66 hours 35 mins; May 26, 2021
John Person, "Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
88 hours 46 mins; May 20, 2021
How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey
34 mins; May 17, 2021
Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific
20 mins; May 13, 2021
John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
62 hours 27 mins; May 13, 2021
B. Gramlich-Oka and A. Walthall, "Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
55 mins; May 07, 2021
Odd Arne Westad, "Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations" (Harvard UP, 2021)
41 mins; May 07, 2021
Shivshankar Menon, "India and Asian Geopolitics" (Brookings, 2021)
64 hours 32 mins; May 03, 2021
Kristen E. Looney, "Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
64 hours 27 mins; May 03, 2021
K. Kale Yu, "Understanding Korean Christianity: Grassroot Perspectives on Causes, Culture, and Responses" (Pickwick, 2019)
90 hours 47 mins; April 30, 2021
Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
61 hours 49 mins; April 30, 2021
Jeanne Shea et al., "Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies" (Berghahn, 2020)
58 mins; April 29, 2021
A. Castiglioni et al, "Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
52 mins; April 26, 2021
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, "A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
74 hours 25 mins; April 23, 2021
Kenneth J. Ruoff, "Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019" (Harvard UP, 2021)
121 hours 36 mins; April 23, 2021
Robert T. Tierney, "Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame" (U California Press, 2010)
48 mins; April 22, 2021
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
72 hours 19 mins; April 22, 2021
Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia, "Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan" (Stanford UP, 2019)
85 hours 47 mins; April 21, 2021
Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
76 hours 6 mins; April 16, 2021
Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)
43 mins; April 15, 2021
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