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Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)

41 mins; December 28, 2023

Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)

68 hours 2 mins; December 27, 2023

Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)

77 hours 4 mins; December 26, 2023

Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)

67 hours 49 mins; December 25, 2023

Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

67 hours 43 mins; December 24, 2023

James Cummings, "The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

49 mins; December 23, 2023

Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

96 hours 15 mins; December 23, 2023

Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)

33 mins; December 22, 2023

Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)

53 mins; December 22, 2023

Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)

35 mins; December 21, 2023

Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)

65 hours 11 mins; December 19, 2023

June Hee Kwon, "Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers" (Duke UP, 2023)

60 hours 13 mins; December 18, 2023

Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)

31 mins; December 15, 2023

Jean Yen-chun Lin, "A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities" (Columbia UP, 2023)

62 hours 51 mins; December 14, 2023

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

57 mins; December 11, 2023

Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies

27 mins; December 08, 2023

Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)

39 mins; December 07, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?

36 mins; December 06, 2023

Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)

59 mins; December 04, 2023

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation

58 mins; December 02, 2023

Book Chat: Eco-translation from Taiwan and Wu Ming-yi’s The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記, with Darryl Sterk

32 mins; December 02, 2023

Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)

89 hours 30 mins; November 29, 2023

Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)

61 hours 3 mins; November 28, 2023

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

38 mins; November 23, 2023

Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)

63 hours 43 mins; November 22, 2023

Harry Harootunian, "Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2023)

49 mins; November 19, 2023

Sauna Culture in Japan

26 mins; November 17, 2023

Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

119 hours 1 min; November 16, 2023

Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)

67 hours 17 mins; November 13, 2023

Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

65 hours 52 mins; November 13, 2023

A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)

56 mins; November 11, 2023

Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)

152 hours 38 mins; November 10, 2023

Jieh-min Wu, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022)

84 hours 21 mins; November 09, 2023

Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)

62 hours 20 mins; November 06, 2023

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

80 hours 55 mins; November 04, 2023

Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, "The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan" (NIAS, 2022)

38 mins; November 04, 2023

Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

61 hours 50 mins; November 03, 2023

Akiko Takeyama, "Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry" (Stanford UP, 2023)

61 hours 12 mins; November 02, 2023

Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)

72 hours 36 mins; October 29, 2023

David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)

51 mins; October 23, 2023

Ji Li, "At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 22, 2023

Chris Fraser, "Late Classical Chinese Thought" (Oxford UP, 2023)

67 hours 51 mins; October 20, 2023

Shellen Xiao Wu, "Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2023)

49 mins; October 20, 2023

Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 14, 2023

Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; October 14, 2023

Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)

64 hours 19 mins; October 10, 2023

Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)

102 hours 40 mins; October 08, 2023

Angelina Chin, "Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2023)

94 hours 31 mins; October 05, 2023

Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)

71 hours 9 mins; October 04, 2023

Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023)

49 mins; October 03, 2023

Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 02, 2023

The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang

45 mins; October 02, 2023

Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)

59 mins; September 27, 2023

Aaron Skabelund, "Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)

47 mins; September 24, 2023

Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)

65 hours 44 mins; September 24, 2023

Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

40 mins; September 21, 2023

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

52 mins; September 21, 2023

Hongwei Bao, "Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2022)

38 mins; September 18, 2023

Julia C. Schneider, "Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)" (Brill, 2017)

52 mins; September 15, 2023

Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia

27 mins; September 15, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Tom Culham and Jing Lin, "Daoist Cultivation of Qi and Virtue for Life, Wisdom, and Learning" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

61 hours 40 mins; September 10, 2023

Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

23 mins; September 10, 2023

Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)

33 mins; September 09, 2023

Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)

66 hours 26 mins; September 08, 2023

Altman Yuzhu Peng, "A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere" (Palgrave Pivot, 2020)

27 mins; September 06, 2023

Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

53 mins; September 05, 2023

Suzy Kim, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2023)

71 hours 35 mins; September 04, 2023

Beth Tsai, "Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

68 hours 5 mins; August 28, 2023

Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)

38 mins; August 28, 2023

Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

44 mins; August 17, 2023

Paratroopers in the Pacific: A Conversation with James Fenelon

45 mins; August 15, 2023

David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

72 hours 32 mins; August 15, 2023

Book Chat with Gwennaël Gaffric

31 mins; August 13, 2023

Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

55 mins; August 13, 2023

Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)

53 mins; August 12, 2023

Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)

53 mins; August 10, 2023

Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess, "The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

51 mins; August 09, 2023

Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 08, 2023

Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

78 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2023

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

55 mins; August 02, 2023

Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)

58 mins; August 01, 2023

Film Chat: Hsin-Chien Huang on VR Film in Taiwan

36 mins; July 30, 2023

Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 28, 2023

Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

54 mins; July 28, 2023

Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)

44 mins; July 27, 2023

Po-Shek Fu, "Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

117 hours 24 mins; July 26, 2023

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)

50 mins; July 23, 2023

Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

48 mins; July 21, 2023

Scott E. Simon, "Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

44 mins; July 20, 2023

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

48 mins; July 19, 2023

Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)

84 hours 43 mins; July 18, 2023

Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

60 hours 32 mins; July 17, 2023

Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

50 mins; July 16, 2023

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Korea: A New History of South and North" (Yale UP, 2023)

50 mins; July 13, 2023

Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)

67 hours 43 mins; July 11, 2023

Yi-Lin Chiang, "Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition" (Princeton UP, 2022)

65 hours 35 mins; July 11, 2023

Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)

99 hours 30 mins; July 08, 2023

Rotem Ḳovner, "Tsushima" (Oxford UP, 2022)

53 mins; July 07, 2023

Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)

42 mins; July 06, 2023

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