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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
71 hours 31 mins; July 27, 2025
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
49 mins; July 26, 2025
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao" (Pantheon, 2017)
76 hours 16 mins; July 26, 2025
Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; July 20, 2025
Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)
72 hours 34 mins; July 18, 2025
James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025),
41 mins; July 17, 2025
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
34 mins; July 16, 2025
Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)
59 mins; July 15, 2025
Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
42 mins; July 15, 2025
Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks, "Global Asias: Tactics & Theories" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
72 hours 37 mins; July 11, 2025
Paul French, "Destination Macao" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
61 hours 39 mins; July 10, 2025
Alexus McLeod, "Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon" (Lexington Books, 2025)
100 hours 0 mins; July 09, 2025
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
25 mins; July 08, 2025
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; July 08, 2025
Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
46 mins; July 03, 2025
Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 01, 2025
Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)
36 mins; June 25, 2025
Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024)
58 mins; June 22, 2025
John Man, "Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict" (Oneworld Publications, 2025)
50 mins; June 19, 2025
Chris Horton, "Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival" (MacMillan, 2025)
64 hours 40 mins; June 19, 2025
Gregory N. Evon, "Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)" (Cambria Press, 2023)
70 hours 55 mins; June 16, 2025
Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" (Hurst UP, 2025)
34 mins; June 12, 2025
Jeremy A. Yellen, "Japan at War, 1914-1952" (Routledge, 2024)
64 hours 12 mins; June 10, 2025
Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)
102 hours 59 mins; June 06, 2025
Vappala Balachandran, "India and China at Odds in the Asian Century: A Diplomatic and Strategic History" (Hurst, 2025)
43 mins; June 05, 2025
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
40 mins; June 04, 2025
Xing Hang, "The Port: HĂ  TiĂŞn and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
65 hours 9 mins; May 30, 2025
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan" (Duke UP, 2025)
44 mins; May 29, 2025
Jessica X. Zu, "Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2025)
88 hours 2 mins; May 28, 2025
Luanjiao Hu, "Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy: Experiences of Women With Physical Disabilities in China, With Worldwide Implications" (IAP, 2024)
65 hours 22 mins; May 25, 2025
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
44 mins; May 24, 2025
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 23, 2025
Selda Altan, "Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; May 22, 2025
Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; May 21, 2025
Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024)
64 hours 4 mins; May 19, 2025
Qingfei Yin, "State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
47 mins; May 18, 2025
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
57 mins; May 17, 2025
Kin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025)
43 mins; May 13, 2025
Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, "Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia" (Brill, 2024)
36 mins; May 09, 2025
Cora Lingling Xu, "The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China" (SUNY Press, 2025)
69 hours 42 mins; May 08, 2025
Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
45 mins; May 03, 2025
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)
41 mins; May 01, 2025
Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)
63 hours 29 mins; April 30, 2025
Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)
70 hours 23 mins; April 27, 2025
Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
71 hours 58 mins; April 26, 2025
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
72 hours 47 mins; April 25, 2025
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
46 mins; April 24, 2025
Tadashi Ishikawa, "Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan" (Cambridge UP., 2024)
66 hours 35 mins; April 23, 2025
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
89 hours 25 mins; April 22, 2025
Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
69 hours 43 mins; April 21, 2025
Christof Lammer, "Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China" (Berghahn, 2024)
102 hours 23 mins; April 20, 2025
Akiko Takenaka, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
57 mins; April 19, 2025
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
48 mins; April 18, 2025
Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)
39 mins; April 17, 2025
Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
67 hours 8 mins; April 13, 2025
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
70 hours 26 mins; April 11, 2025
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
41 mins; April 10, 2025
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; April 09, 2025
Queering the Asian Diaspora
37 mins; April 08, 2025
Becky Yang Hsu, "The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China" (Columbia UP, 2024)
49 mins; April 07, 2025
David Dean Barrett, "140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon" (Diversion Books, 2020)
75 hours 3 mins; April 06, 2025
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
64 hours 35 mins; April 05, 2025
Angus Lockyer, "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; April 04, 2025
Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; April 03, 2025
Stacie A. Kent, "Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 02, 2025
Tana Li, "A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 01, 2025
Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
67 hours 12 mins; April 01, 2025
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 28, 2025
Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
52 mins; March 27, 2025
Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024)
49 mins; March 18, 2025
Zhiying Ma, "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2025)
62 hours 4 mins; March 15, 2025
Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
61 hours 38 mins; March 14, 2025
Michael J. Hatch, "Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840" (Penn State UP, 2023)
96 hours 4 mins; March 13, 2025
Hye Seung Chung, "Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
49 mins; March 11, 2025
Andrew G. Walder, "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery" (Stanford UP, 2023)
85 hours 41 mins; March 09, 2025
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
17 mins; March 07, 2025
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
46 mins; March 04, 2025
Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024)
43 mins; February 27, 2025
Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison, "Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order" (Cambria Press, 2024)
58 mins; February 23, 2025
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse
17 mins; February 22, 2025
Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
50 mins; February 20, 2025
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
63 hours 6 mins; February 19, 2025
Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
41 mins; February 15, 2025
Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
69 hours 33 mins; February 12, 2025
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; February 11, 2025
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
71 hours 26 mins; February 07, 2025
Andrew Campana, "Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" (U California Press, 2024)
62 hours 54 mins; February 06, 2025
Yujie Zhu, "China’s Heritage through History: Reconfigured Pasts" (Routledge, 2024)
47 mins; February 02, 2025
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
33 mins; February 01, 2025
Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
80 hours 54 mins; January 25, 2025
Brian Hioe, "Taipei at Daybreak" (Repeater, 2025)
36 mins; January 23, 2025
Jing Xu, "'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
101 hours 52 mins; January 22, 2025
Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 5 mins; January 20, 2025
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
59 mins; January 18, 2025
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
44 mins; January 12, 2025
Professional Chat – Working with the most marginalised people in Taiwan, AIDS/HIV and undocumented migrants, with Yi-Fan Feng
40 mins; January 10, 2025
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; January 10, 2025
Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
76 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2025
Peter Hessler, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" (Penguin, 2024)
52 mins; January 09, 2025
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