New Books in East Asian Studies
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1051
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Ei...
An interview with Paul Goldin
63 min
1052
Enze Han, "Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland S...
An interview with Enze Han
77 min
1053
Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox...
An interview with Yuen Yuen Ang
41 min
1054
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
1055
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieva...
Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...
45 min
1056
Geoffrey C. Goble, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: ...
Goble examines the emergence and early history of esoteric Buddhism in China.,,
68 min
1057
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
1058
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
1059
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
1060
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
1061
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Powe...
Freymann explores the nature, function, and purposes of OBOR...
61 min
1062
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
1063
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
1064
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
1065
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
1066
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
1067
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
1068
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
1069
Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The ...
It is difficult to understand the pace or extent of the changes in Hong Kong since the protests began in June 2019...
81 min
1070
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
1071
Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Aka...
Eubanks examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000)....
83 min
1072
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Ch...
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains.,,.
65 min
1073
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity an...
From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia highlight the complexity of minority self-representation...
25 min
1074
Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A ...
Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....
38 min
1075
Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: ...
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies....
82 min