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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
55 mins; March 25, 2022
Jing Tsu, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
38 mins; March 24, 2022
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
72 hours 30 mins; March 24, 2022
Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)
125 hours 21 mins; March 24, 2022
Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)
49 mins; March 22, 2022
Peter B. Lavelle, "The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
69 hours 15 mins; March 22, 2022
De-Min Tao and Gary P. Leupp, eds., "The Tokugawa World" (Routledge, 2021)
32 mins; March 21, 2022
Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
53 mins; March 21, 2022
Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
59 mins; March 15, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; March 14, 2022
Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 3 mins; March 14, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
61 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2022
On the Resurgence of Taoism and Christianity in China
71 hours 35 mins; March 09, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
82 hours 32 mins; March 08, 2022
Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
62 hours 32 mins; March 01, 2022
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
26 mins; February 28, 2022
Aminta Arrington, "Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China" (PSU Press, 2020)
88 hours 16 mins; February 28, 2022
Hiroko Matsuda, "Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
51 mins; February 25, 2022
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; February 23, 2022
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
57 mins; February 22, 2022
Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China
24 mins; February 21, 2022
Shameen Prashantham, "Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups" (Wiley, 2021)
34 mins; February 17, 2022
Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
70 hours 42 mins; February 14, 2022
Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
97 hours 41 mins; February 14, 2022
Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
26 mins; February 11, 2022
David S. Roh, "Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions" (Stanford UP, 2021)
51 mins; February 11, 2022
Paul French, "Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day" (Penguin, 2018)
41 mins; February 10, 2022
Leilei Chen, "Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding" (U Regina Press, 2016)
84 hours 36 mins; February 09, 2022
Liz P. Y. Chee, "Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China" (Duke UP, 2021)
53 mins; February 09, 2022
Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
56 mins; February 08, 2022
Peilin Liang, "Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2022
Colin Thubron, "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" (Harper, 2021)
45 mins; February 03, 2022
Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
52 mins; February 02, 2022
Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
63 hours 12 mins; January 31, 2022
Neil J. Diamant, "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
53 mins; January 31, 2022
James Heisig, "Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons" (Chisokudƍ Publications, 2019)
76 hours 53 mins; January 27, 2022
Catherine S. Chan, "Macanese Diaspora in British Hong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
39 mins; January 27, 2022
Howard Chiang, "Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader" (Cambria Press, 2021)
51 mins; January 24, 2022
Heidi Wang-Kaeding, "China's Environmental Foreign Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
18 mins; January 21, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
59 mins; January 20, 2022
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)
67 hours 45 mins; January 20, 2022
Ziying You, "Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning" (Indiana UP, 2020)
63 hours 29 mins; January 18, 2022
Rebecca Corbett, "Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
77 hours 58 mins; January 17, 2022
Ruth Mostern, "The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History" (Yale UP, 2021)
80 hours 55 mins; January 14, 2022
COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
25 mins; January 07, 2022
Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia
22 mins; January 07, 2022
Cheng Li, "Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement" (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)
59 mins; January 06, 2022
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
83 hours 38 mins; January 03, 2022
Viktoriya Kim et al. "The Politics of International Marriage in Japan" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
53 mins; January 03, 2022
Takashi Saitƍ, "Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya Kaidan" (Chisokudo, 2020)
39 mins; December 28, 2021
East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
24 mins; December 27, 2021
Shelly Chan, "Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration" (Duke UP, 2018)
65 hours 43 mins; December 24, 2021
Ian Reader and John Shultz, "Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku" (Oxford UP, 2021)
60 hours 26 mins; December 22, 2021
Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)
54 mins; December 22, 2021
Yeling Tan, "Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order" (Cornell UP, 2021)
84 hours 58 mins; December 21, 2021
Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
54 mins; December 21, 2021
Understanding South Korea’s Taegukgi Rallies
25 mins; December 20, 2021
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
79 hours 26 mins; December 20, 2021
Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, "Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2021
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
60 hours 11 mins; December 20, 2021
Timothy M. Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
104 hours 21 mins; December 17, 2021
Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
68 hours 42 mins; December 16, 2021
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
45 mins; December 15, 2021
Chun-Yi Peng, "Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions" (Springer, 2021)
66 hours 20 mins; December 15, 2021
The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai
39 mins; December 10, 2021
Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
133 hours 27 mins; December 09, 2021
Alisa Freedman, "Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost" (Association for Asian Studies, 2021)
58 mins; December 08, 2021
Negotiated Environmentalism: Influences of Domestic Interest Groups in China’s Environmental Foreign Relations
27 mins; December 06, 2021
Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19
28 mins; December 03, 2021
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
89 hours 25 mins; December 03, 2021
Shao-yun Yang, "The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
102 hours 24 mins; November 30, 2021
John Maraldo, "Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2: Borderline Interrogations" (Chisokudo, 2019)
64 hours 46 mins; November 29, 2021
Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)
82 hours 52 mins; November 24, 2021
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
51 mins; November 24, 2021
Sunhee Koo, "Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
69 hours 20 mins; November 24, 2021
Darryl Sterk, "Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale" (Routledge, 2020)
114 hours 21 mins; November 23, 2021
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
28 mins; November 19, 2021
James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)
68 hours 20 mins; November 19, 2021
Gabriella LukĂĄcs, "Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy" (Duke UP, 2020)
58 mins; November 18, 2021
Xavier Naville, "The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China" (Earnshaw Books, 2021)
44 mins; November 18, 2021
Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
70 hours 11 mins; November 17, 2021
Jeffrey J. Hall, "Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism" (Routledge, 2021)
60 hours 22 mins; November 11, 2021
Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
82 hours 48 mins; November 11, 2021
Andrew B. Kipnis, "The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China" (U California Press, 2021)
59 mins; November 09, 2021
Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Viking, 2021)
84 hours 20 mins; November 08, 2021
Chia-Rong Wu, "Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan" (Cambria Press, 2020)
59 mins; November 05, 2021
Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)
65 hours 16 mins; November 04, 2021
Machiko ƌgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
33 mins; November 04, 2021
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
88 hours 52 mins; October 25, 2021
Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
92 hours 18 mins; October 25, 2021
Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich, "Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch" (Stone Bridge, 2021)
58 mins; October 25, 2021
Nick R. Smith, "The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
89 hours 29 mins; October 22, 2021
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
89 hours 38 mins; October 22, 2021
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
63 hours 32 mins; October 20, 2021
Laurence Coderre, "Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China" (Duke UP, 2021)
81 hours 23 mins; October 19, 2021
David J. Mozina, "Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
72 hours 37 mins; October 18, 2021
Robert Hellyer, "Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups" (Columbia UP, 2021)
46 mins; October 15, 2021
Elizabeth Lacouture, "Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960" (Columbia UP, 2021)
39 mins; October 14, 2021
Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
49 mins; October 07, 2021
Orion Klautau and Hans Martin KrÀmer, "Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
67 hours 21 mins; October 06, 2021
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