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New Books in East Asian Studies
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John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
44 mins; December 22, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
45 mins; December 22, 2022
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
88 hours 3 mins; December 21, 2022
Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
58 mins; December 17, 2022
Elaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
86 hours 54 mins; December 16, 2022
Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
60 hours 44 mins; December 15, 2022
Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)
43 mins; December 15, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
59 mins; December 14, 2022
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
47 mins; December 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
39 mins; December 13, 2022
Is China's Communist Party Threatened by the Protests?
42 mins; December 12, 2022
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
22 mins; December 09, 2022
Annika A. Culver, "Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
100 hours 34 mins; December 09, 2022
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 08, 2022
Ayelet Zohar, "The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia" (Brill, 2022)
99 hours 10 mins; December 07, 2022
John Delury, "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 30 mins; December 04, 2022
Chris McMorran, "Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
36 mins; December 02, 2022
Adam Brookes, "Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City" (Atria Books, 2022)
60 hours 52 mins; December 02, 2022
The Future of Xi and China: A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong
49 mins; November 30, 2022
Viren Murthy, "The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; November 29, 2022
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; November 29, 2022
The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe
23 mins; November 25, 2022
Paul D. Barclay, "Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's 'Savage Border,' 1874-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
71 hours 41 mins; November 24, 2022
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 22, 2022
Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
58 mins; November 18, 2022
Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 44 mins; November 18, 2022
Lynette H. Ong, "Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
46 mins; November 18, 2022
Towards a Green China
38 mins; November 18, 2022
Steve Kemper, "Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
42 mins; November 17, 2022
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
35 mins; November 17, 2022
Sisi Sung, "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling" (Routledge, 2022)
25 mins; November 16, 2022
Natali Pearson, "Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
36 mins; November 15, 2022
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 15, 2022
Howard Chiang, "Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific" (Columbia UP, 2021)
59 mins; November 14, 2022
Meredith Schweig, "Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
96 hours 20 mins; November 11, 2022
Jianglin Li, "When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
44 mins; November 09, 2022
Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; November 08, 2022
Ghassan Moazzin, "Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
40 mins; November 07, 2022
Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 01, 2022
Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
64 hours 18 mins; November 01, 2022
Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
64 hours 18 mins; November 01, 2022
Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
59 mins; November 01, 2022
Kathleen Burkinshaw, "The Last Cherry Blossom" (Sky Pony, 2020)
50 mins; October 28, 2022
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
38 mins; October 27, 2022
Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
58 mins; October 26, 2022
A. Carly Buxton, "Un-Thinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
61 hours 24 mins; October 26, 2022
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
45 mins; October 24, 2022
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu
21 mins; October 21, 2022
Sabine FrĂŒhstĂŒck, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
153 hours 8 mins; October 21, 2022
Jennifer S. Prough, "Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
57 mins; October 21, 2022
Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
76 hours 23 mins; October 21, 2022
Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
59 mins; October 20, 2022
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
98 hours 0 mins; October 19, 2022
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
48 mins; October 18, 2022
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
21 mins; October 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; October 13, 2022
Thomas Baudinette, "Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
52 mins; October 11, 2022
Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
60 hours 5 mins; October 07, 2022
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
38 mins; October 06, 2022
John Saeki, "The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked the Hills Beyond the City" (Blacksmith Books, 2021)
34 mins; October 06, 2022
4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation
50 mins; October 06, 2022
On Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
28 mins; October 06, 2022
Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke
47 mins; October 05, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
38 mins; October 04, 2022
NBN Classic: Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
59 mins; October 02, 2022
95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park
71 hours 37 mins; September 30, 2022
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
31 mins; September 30, 2022
Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)
63 hours 34 mins; September 30, 2022
Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)
46 mins; September 30, 2022
Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
52 mins; September 27, 2022
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
83 hours 9 mins; September 23, 2022
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
27 mins; September 22, 2022
Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Penguin, 2022)
35 mins; September 22, 2022
Andrew Grant, "The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine" (Cornell UP, 2022)
46 mins; September 21, 2022
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
50 mins; September 16, 2022
Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise
27 mins; September 16, 2022
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendƍ and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
57 mins; September 13, 2022
Chinese Outbound Tourism: Leisure or Political Tool?
24 mins; September 09, 2022
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 09, 2022
Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)
88 hours 13 mins; September 08, 2022
Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)
49 mins; September 07, 2022
Joseph Torigian, "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China After Stalin and Mao" (Yale UP, 2022)
61 hours 32 mins; September 07, 2022
Charo B. D'Etcheverry, "Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo" (Cornell UP, 2022)
54 mins; September 06, 2022
Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System" (U California Press, 2022)
69 hours 8 mins; September 05, 2022
Vietnam and China: Strange Bedfellows in the Era of Strategic Competition
29 mins; September 01, 2022
Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
43 mins; August 30, 2022
Brian DeMare, "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 30, 2022
Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
56 mins; August 29, 2022
Bert Becker, "France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
67 hours 31 mins; August 29, 2022
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
22 mins; August 25, 2022
On Inazƍ Nitobe's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan"
32 mins; August 25, 2022
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
70 hours 46 mins; August 25, 2022
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
37 mins; August 18, 2022
Fiona Moore, "Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
60 hours 16 mins; August 17, 2022
Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
61 hours 44 mins; August 16, 2022
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
58 mins; August 15, 2022
William Matthews, "Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
102 hours 58 mins; August 15, 2022
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 12, 2022
On "The Great Learning"
15 mins; August 11, 2022
David R. Stroup, "Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims" (U Washington Press, 2022)
67 hours 47 mins; August 09, 2022
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