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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Steven B. Miles, "Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
42 mins; August 09, 2022
Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
67 hours 40 mins; August 08, 2022
Ariane KnĂźsel, "China's European Headquarters: Switzerland and China During the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 08, 2022
China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy
22 mins; August 05, 2022
Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
76 hours 14 mins; August 05, 2022
On "The Story of the Stone"
28 mins; August 04, 2022
Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop" (Oxford UP, 2022)
47 mins; August 04, 2022
Benjamin R. Young, "Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World" (Stanford UP, 2021)
42 mins; August 02, 2022
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
44 mins; August 02, 2022
The Future of Korea: A Discussion with Eugene Y. Park
46 mins; August 02, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
25 mins; August 01, 2022
Peter Kornicki, "Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; August 01, 2022
Jin Feng, "Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways" (U Washington Press, 2019)
41 mins; August 01, 2022
Cole Roskam, "Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992" (Yale UP, 2021)
64 hours 23 mins; July 26, 2022
Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
96 hours 14 mins; July 25, 2022
Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
26 mins; July 22, 2022
Ethan Mark, "Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
108 hours 10 mins; July 21, 2022
John Fitzgerald, "Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party" (NewSouth Books, 2022)
53 mins; July 20, 2022
Hsin-I Cheng, "Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship" (Lexington, 2021)
68 hours 44 mins; July 19, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
62 hours 34 mins; July 15, 2022
Veronica S. W. Mak, "Milk Craze: Body, Science, and Hope in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 14, 2022
Jennifer Lin, "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China" (Temple UP, 2022)
41 mins; July 14, 2022
Vivian Jing Zhan, "China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; July 14, 2022
The Future of Hong Kong: A Discussion with Ho-Fung Hung
42 mins; July 12, 2022
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
30 mins; July 08, 2022
Sheila A. Smith, "Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power" (Harvard UP, 2019)
74 hours 32 mins; July 07, 2022
W. Puck Brecher, "Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History" (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)
34 mins; July 06, 2022
Meng Zhang, "Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market" (U Washington Press, 2021)
43 mins; July 06, 2022
Helen Jin Kim, "Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
83 hours 37 mins; July 05, 2022
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
54 mins; July 04, 2022
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
30 mins; July 01, 2022
Victor Seow, "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
76 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2022
Yin Cao, "From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945" (Brill, 2017)
53 mins; June 28, 2022
Rachael Hutchinson and JĂŠrĂŠmie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
47 mins; June 27, 2022
Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
31 mins; June 24, 2022
Eli Friedman, "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
66 hours 29 mins; June 20, 2022
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
24 mins; June 17, 2022
Juwen Zhang, "The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales" (Princeton UP, 2022)
67 hours 8 mins; June 16, 2022
Michael Berry, "The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2022)
68 hours 5 mins; June 15, 2022
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
105 hours 12 mins; June 13, 2022
Lin Song, "Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
64 hours 39 mins; June 10, 2022
Yi Gu, "Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting" (Harvard UP, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; June 10, 2022
Hentyle Yapp, "Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic" (Duke UP, 2021)
76 hours 48 mins; June 09, 2022
English-Language Publishing in Asian Universities and Colleges
40 mins; June 06, 2022
Joshua Neves, "Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy" (Duke UP, 2020)
62 hours 4 mins; June 03, 2022
Jessamyn Abel, "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 43 mins; June 02, 2022
Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
90 hours 45 mins; June 02, 2022
Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)
48 mins; May 31, 2022
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World" (Oneworld, 2021)
70 hours 23 mins; May 30, 2022
Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
23 mins; May 26, 2022
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)
30 mins; May 26, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
63 hours 13 mins; May 25, 2022
Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
41 mins; May 25, 2022
Mayfair Yang, "Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
85 hours 22 mins; May 24, 2022
Jiwei Xiao, "Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature" (Routledge, 2022)
142 hours 22 mins; May 23, 2022
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
70 hours 51 mins; May 23, 2022
The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida with Paul Midford
27 mins; May 23, 2022
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 20, 2022
Andrew D. Morris, "Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)
77 hours 41 mins; May 20, 2022
Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China
36 mins; May 19, 2022
Corey Byrnes, "Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges" (Columbia UP, 2019)
70 hours 30 mins; May 19, 2022
Glynne Walley, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
36 mins; May 19, 2022
Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 27 mins; May 18, 2022
Christopher Carothers, "Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
73 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2022
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
67 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
The New Political Cry in South Korea?: The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea
29 mins; May 13, 2022
Mikkel Bunkenborg et al., "Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization" (Cornell UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 09, 2022
Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic
38 mins; May 09, 2022
Katie Stallard, "Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
68 hours 21 mins; May 06, 2022
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
53 mins; May 06, 2022
William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
50 mins; May 04, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
65 hours 49 mins; May 04, 2022
Ban Wang, "China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision" (Duke UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 03, 2022
Markus Bell, "Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea" (Berghahn, 2021)
60 hours 3 mins; May 02, 2022
Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; April 29, 2022
The Future of Japanese Studies
30 mins; April 29, 2022
Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil, "Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
69 hours 8 mins; April 29, 2022
Robert Cliver, "Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry" (Harvard UP, 2020)
75 hours 52 mins; April 27, 2022
Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, "Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 26, 2022
Laura Hein, "Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
55 mins; April 26, 2022
Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
75 hours 7 mins; April 26, 2022
Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 25, 2022
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
70 hours 32 mins; April 21, 2022
Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller, "The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity" (Routledge, 2021)
54 mins; April 21, 2022
Terry Lautz, "Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
47 mins; April 21, 2022
Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)
54 mins; April 19, 2022
Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; April 15, 2022
Takeshi Morisato, "Tanabe Hajime and the Kyoto School: Self, World, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; April 14, 2022
Karen Cheung, "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir" (Random House, 2022)
63 hours 44 mins; April 14, 2022
Robert Barnett et al., "Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold : Essays and Primary Documents" (Brill, 2020)
111 hours 18 mins; April 13, 2022
Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022)
68 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2022
Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?
24 mins; April 08, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
66 hours 8 mins; April 06, 2022
Melissa M. Lee, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)
54 mins; April 04, 2022
Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
77 hours 11 mins; March 31, 2022
China, Buddhism and the Belt and Road Initiative in Mainland Southeast Asia
24 mins; March 31, 2022
Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
45 mins; March 29, 2022
The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula: Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea
26 mins; March 28, 2022
China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis
25 mins; March 25, 2022
Liora Sarfati, "Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital" (Indiana UP, 2021)
79 hours 49 mins; March 25, 2022
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