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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
87 hours 6 mins; January 05, 2025
Jie Li, "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era" (Duke UP, 2020)
86 hours 25 mins; January 04, 2025
Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)
87 hours 52 mins; January 04, 2025
Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
45 mins; January 02, 2025
Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2019)
71 hours 30 mins; January 01, 2025
Language Rights in a Changing China
39 mins; December 31, 2024
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
55 mins; December 26, 2024
Academic Chat – From Academic Work to Social Impact: A Scholar’s Commitment to Raise Awareness on Migrant Experiences in Taiwan
53 mins; December 20, 2024
Hannah Gould et al., "Death and Funeral Practices in Japan" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; December 20, 2024
Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
58 mins; December 13, 2024
Kerry Smith, "Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
71 hours 20 mins; December 07, 2024
Russell Thomas, "Tofu: A Culinary History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
51 mins; December 04, 2024
Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
34 mins; December 03, 2024
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; December 01, 2024
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
60 hours 46 mins; November 30, 2024
Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance" (Cornell UP, 2024)
103 hours 19 mins; November 29, 2024
Chris Berry et al., "Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
45 mins; November 27, 2024
Margaret Mehl, "Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert" (Open Book, 2024)
58 mins; November 23, 2024
Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
25 mins; November 22, 2024
Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 30 mins; November 19, 2024
Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
81 hours 28 mins; November 17, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
63 hours 50 mins; November 07, 2024
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 29, 2024
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
97 hours 55 mins; October 28, 2024
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
19 mins; October 25, 2024
Andrea Benvenuti, "Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
77 hours 46 mins; October 24, 2024
Tamara Jacka, "Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China" (Anu Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 21, 2024
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, "Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
58 mins; October 20, 2024
Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)
50 mins; October 20, 2024
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 18, 2024
Andrew G. Walder, “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed” (Harvard UP, 2015)
80 hours 27 mins; October 18, 2024
Xiaoming Wang, "Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia" (de Gruyter, 2019)
48 mins; October 14, 2024
Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
73 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2024
Helena F. S. Lopes, "Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
112 hours 9 mins; October 11, 2024
Victor C. Shih, "Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 10, 2024
Zach Fredman, "The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949" (UNC Press, 2022)
60 hours 52 mins; October 09, 2024
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
59 mins; October 09, 2024
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
61 hours 43 mins; October 08, 2024
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
53 mins; October 07, 2024
James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
31 mins; September 30, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
63 hours 6 mins; September 27, 2024
Caterina Fugazzola, "Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China" (Temple UP, 2023)
59 mins; September 26, 2024
Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)
39 mins; September 26, 2024
Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
65 hours 13 mins; September 24, 2024
Andrea E. Pia, "Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
77 hours 6 mins; September 20, 2024
Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
51 mins; September 19, 2024
Gil Hizi, "Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
61 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2024
Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)
68 hours 42 mins; September 14, 2024
Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; September 14, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; September 13, 2024
Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
50 mins; September 12, 2024
Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; September 07, 2024
James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
57 mins; September 06, 2024
Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (Springer, 2017)
49 mins; September 06, 2024
Fabio Rambelli, "Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
57 mins; September 02, 2024
Tarryn Li-Min Chun, "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024), "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
68 hours 22 mins; August 30, 2024
Christopher Lovins, "King ChƏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
72 hours 34 mins; August 27, 2024
Christopher Brown, "Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
81 hours 47 mins; August 27, 2024
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
67 hours 44 mins; August 25, 2024
Francisca Yuenki Lai, "Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
63 hours 37 mins; August 25, 2024
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)
57 mins; August 23, 2024
Le Lin, "The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
102 hours 1 min; August 21, 2024
Muslimness in China
64 hours 10 mins; August 09, 2024
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
61 hours 8 mins; August 07, 2024
Forgotten Ummah--Muslims in China
62 hours 25 mins; August 02, 2024
Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023)
52 mins; August 01, 2024
On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations
48 mins; July 31, 2024
Matthew H. Sommer, "The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2024)
86 hours 55 mins; July 30, 2024
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
73 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2024
Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
59 mins; July 28, 2024
Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
76 hours 35 mins; July 27, 2024
Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
70 hours 14 mins; July 25, 2024
Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)
52 mins; July 24, 2024
Muslim Literacies in China
31 mins; July 23, 2024
Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
78 hours 5 mins; July 23, 2024
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kƍran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
54 mins; July 21, 2024
Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
66 hours 54 mins; July 20, 2024
Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; July 20, 2024
Laura Moretti and Satƍ Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazƍshi" (Brill, 2024)
63 hours 36 mins; July 19, 2024
Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 51 mins; July 18, 2024
Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
52 mins; July 18, 2024
Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
76 hours 51 mins; July 17, 2024
Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
25 mins; July 15, 2024
Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in GuĂ„han, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
49 mins; July 14, 2024
Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)
68 hours 36 mins; July 13, 2024
Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
88 hours 22 mins; July 13, 2024
Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 12, 2024
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
59 mins; July 11, 2024
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
72 hours 26 mins; July 10, 2024
Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)
45 mins; July 03, 2024
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
59 mins; July 02, 2024
J. Megan Greene, "Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
80 hours 2 mins; June 27, 2024
Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)
39 mins; June 27, 2024
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
31 mins; June 24, 2024
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)
73 hours 15 mins; June 22, 2024
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao
55 mins; June 21, 2024
Jorge AlmazĂĄn et al., "Emergent Tokyo:: Designing the Spontaneous City" (Oro Editions, 2024)
36 mins; June 19, 2024
Joanna Siekiera, "21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition" (Warsaw UP, 2023)
80 hours 35 mins; June 18, 2024
Qian Wei, "The Governance of Philanthropic Foundations in Authoritarian China" (Routledge, 2022)
76 hours 34 mins; June 18, 2024
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