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Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
48 mins; July 04, 2023
Xin Zhang, "The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 30, 2023
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, "Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories" (Scribner, 2023)
35 mins; June 29, 2023
Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
47 mins; June 25, 2023
Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma
35 mins; June 23, 2023
Yue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
75 hours 0 mins; June 19, 2023
Lin Poyer, "War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
56 mins; June 17, 2023
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tƍjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
37 mins; June 10, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
39 mins; June 08, 2023
Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; June 07, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
34 mins; June 05, 2023
Book Chat: "The Suspended Island: Taiwan and the Balance of the World" (LUISS UP, 2022)
33 mins; June 02, 2023
Brantly Womack, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
21 mins; June 02, 2023
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2023
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 22, 2023
Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
50 mins; May 22, 2023
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
61 hours 34 mins; May 18, 2023
Daniel A. Bell, "The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University" (Princeton UP, 2023)
65 hours 23 mins; May 17, 2023
Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
61 hours 13 mins; May 16, 2023
Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan, "Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader" (Springer, 2023)
56 mins; May 16, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
70 hours 13 mins; May 14, 2023
China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes
23 mins; May 12, 2023
James M. Zimmerman, "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
48 mins; May 11, 2023
Andrew Small, "No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West" (Melville House, 2022)
27 mins; May 04, 2023
Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
64 hours 46 mins; May 03, 2023
What Can China's Identity Politics Tell Us About Affirmative Action?
39 mins; May 01, 2023
Maura Dykstra, "Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)
63 hours 8 mins; April 30, 2023
Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan
31 mins; April 28, 2023
Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
66 hours 10 mins; April 28, 2023
Robert J. Antony, "Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
48 mins; April 26, 2023
Nicole Constable, "Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations" (U California Press, 2022)
58 mins; April 23, 2023
Li-Chun Hsiao, "The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan" (Lexington Books, 2022)
95 hours 0 mins; April 18, 2023
Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
62 hours 43 mins; April 16, 2023
Tim Simpson, "Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
73 hours 47 mins; April 11, 2023
Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)
67 hours 30 mins; April 11, 2023
Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
57 mins; April 10, 2023
Mercedes Valmisa, "Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 08, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
42 mins; April 02, 2023
Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
50 mins; March 31, 2023
Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 35 mins; March 23, 2023
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
44 mins; March 23, 2023
Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)
68 hours 21 mins; March 22, 2023
Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
43 mins; March 21, 2023
David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
55 mins; March 19, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
79 hours 11 mins; March 19, 2023
Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)
64 hours 17 mins; March 18, 2023
Ian Rowen, "One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism" (Cornell UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 17, 2023
Academic Chat: Reflecting on Hu Tai-li’s Indigenous Ethnographic Work in Taiwan
11 mins; March 17, 2023
Book Chat: "Human Glitches" (2020)
34 mins; March 16, 2023
Book Chat: "Taiwan’s Green Parties. Alternative Politics in Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
29 mins; March 15, 2023
Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu
29 mins; March 14, 2023
Book Chat: Comics in Taiwan
42 mins; March 13, 2023
Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
59 mins; March 13, 2023
Book Chat: Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi
34 mins; March 12, 2023
Film Chat: Queer, Sci-Fi and the Family
38 mins; March 11, 2023
Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; March 10, 2023
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
56 mins; March 10, 2023
Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
53 mins; March 09, 2023
Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
47 mins; March 09, 2023
H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2023
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
55 mins; March 08, 2023
Book Chat: "Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
46 mins; March 07, 2023
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
51 mins; March 07, 2023
Timothy O. Benedict, "Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan" (U California Press, 2022)
79 hours 6 mins; March 07, 2023
Book Chat : "The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory and Identity in Modern Taiwan" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; March 06, 2023
Aram Hur, "Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
46 mins; March 03, 2023
The Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education
18 mins; March 03, 2023
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
44 mins; March 02, 2023
Seiji Shirane, "Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945" (Cornell UP, 2022)
72 hours 11 mins; February 24, 2023
Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
29 mins; February 24, 2023
Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)
63 hours 18 mins; February 21, 2023
Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li, "Taiwanese Literature as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
80 hours 52 mins; February 21, 2023
Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
70 hours 12 mins; February 21, 2023
Michael Schiltz, "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
35 mins; February 20, 2023
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
48 mins; February 18, 2023
Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
44 mins; February 17, 2023
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
41 mins; February 15, 2023
Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho, "Material Contradictions in Mao's China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
57 mins; February 13, 2023
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
48 mins; February 11, 2023
Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; February 10, 2023
A New Hope? Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia
23 mins; February 09, 2023
Richard Overy, "Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945" (Viking, 2022)
59 mins; February 04, 2023
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
45 mins; February 03, 2023
Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
57 mins; February 01, 2023
Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)
67 hours 3 mins; January 29, 2023
Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
65 hours 36 mins; January 28, 2023
Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
24 mins; January 26, 2023
South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
62 hours 26 mins; January 16, 2023
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
100 hours 40 mins; January 15, 2023
Hung-Yok Ip, "Grassroots Activism of Ancient China: Mohism and Nonviolence" ( Lexington Books, 2022)
51 mins; January 09, 2023
Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
83 hours 37 mins; January 07, 2023
Between the Streets and the Assembly: South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization
29 mins; January 06, 2023
Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
42 mins; January 05, 2023
Magnus Fiskesjö, "Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
55 mins; January 01, 2023
Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi, "Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; December 29, 2022
Daniel Barish, "Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861-1912" (Columbia UP, 2022)
64 hours 48 mins; December 27, 2022
Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
36 mins; December 25, 2022
Jonathan Dil, "Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
55 mins; December 24, 2022
Wendi L. Adamek, "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (Hamburg Buddhist Studies, 2021)
91 hours 4 mins; December 23, 2022
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
59 mins; December 23, 2022
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