New Books in East Asian Studies

Interviews with Scholars of East Asia about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
951
William W. Kelly, "The Sportsworld of the Hansh...
An interview with William K. Kelly
82 min
952
Kelly A. Hammond, "China's Muslims and Japan's ...
An interview with Kelly A. Hammond
56 min
953
John Wei, "Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilitie...
An interview with John Wei
30 min
954
Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A...
An interview with C. Slaght
35 min
955
David Fedman, "Seeds of Control: Seeds of Contr...
An interview with David Fedman
108 min
956
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist...
An interview with Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck
59 min
957
Enze Han, "Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland S...
An interview with Enze Han
77 min
958
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Ei...
An interview with Paul Goldin
63 min
959
Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox...
An interview with Yuen Yuen Ang
41 min
960
Sharon J. Yoon, "The Cost of Belonging: An Ethn...
Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea who often have prestigious educational degrees?
64 min
961
Geoffrey C. Goble, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: ...
Goble examines the emergence and early history of esoteric Buddhism in China.,,
68 min
962
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieva...
Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...
45 min
963
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, "Asian Place, Filipin...
Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations....
57 min
964
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism ...
Chia explores the transnationally connected history of modern Buddhist communities in China and Southeast Asia...
66 min
965
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War I...
Mitter traces this transformation in the Chinese interpretations of the war from one marked by humiliation to one that celebrates victory...
59 min
966
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Powe...
Freymann explores the nature, function, and purposes of OBOR...
61 min
967
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Col...
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...
59 min
968
Covell F. Meyskens, "Mao's Third Front: The Mil...
The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era, and yet this huge industrial war machine, which saw the mobilization of fifteen million people, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half...
87 min
969
Paul Jankowski, "All Against All: The Long Wint...
Jankowski provides a wide-angled account of a critical period of world history, the interwar years, in which the world transitioned from postwar to the prewar and saw the disintegration of collective security and international institutions created after the First World War....
47 min
970
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Oth...
Wang explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it...
34 min
971
Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort W...
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...
42 min
972
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: So...
Strangio carefully dissects the People’s Republic of China’s complicated relationships with its southern neighbors....
108 min
973
David Tobin, "Securing China's Northwest Fronti...
Tobin makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the PRC state-building and narrative-creation efforts which justify projects like the region’s vast network of detention camps....
60 min
974
David Chai, "Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothi...
Chai offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought...
71 min
975
Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democrac...
Mongolia is sometimes seen as one of the few examples of a successful youth-led revolution, where a 1990 movement forced the Soviet-appointed Politburo to resign....
40 min