New Books in East Asian Studies
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Nozomi Naoi, "Yumeji Modern: Designing the Ever...
Nao offers the first book-length English-language study of one of Japan’s iconic twentieth-century artists, Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934)...
77 min
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Daniel P. Aldrich, "Black Wave: How Networks an...
Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...
44 min
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Rebecca E. Karl, "China’s Revolutions in the Mo...
Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...
78 min
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Mark A. Nathan, "From the Mountains to the Citi...
Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...
90 min
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Bo Mou, "Philosophy of Language, Chinese Langua...
This book brings together work on the syntax and semantics of the Chinese language with philosophy of language, from the classical Chinese and contemporary analytic Anglophone traditions...
90 min
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Mayfair Yang, "Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual ...
Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..
60 min
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Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chines...
Afinogenov offers a trove of insights into the centuries-long entanglements which have shaped Sino-Russian relationships up to the present...
62 min
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Eugenia Lean, "Vernacular Industrialism in Chin...
Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....
52 min
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Andreas Fulda, "The Struggle for Democracy in M...
The key question Fulda poses is to what extent political activists in these three domiciles have made progress in their quest to liberalize and democratize their respective polities...
73 min
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Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion...
How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?
56 min
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Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Kor...
This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...
76 min
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Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Ri...
Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...
36 min
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Gina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in Chin...
Tam takes us through the ways that people in China have navigated the country’s complex linguistic landscape while also negotiating profound questions over the meanings of modern Chinese identity itself...
66 min
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He Bian, "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Cult...
Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..
80 min
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Macabe Keliher, "The Board of Rites and the Mak...
Keliher challenges traditional understandings of state-formation and helps us rethink how we tell the story of the founding of the Qing...
66 min
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Michael Schuman, "Superpower Interrupted: The C...
The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?
50 min
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Charlotte Bruckermann, "Claiming Homes: Confron...
Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside...
45 min
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John Harney, "Empire of Infields: Baseball in T...
Harney argues that baseball was not necessarily a place for the formation of a Taiwanese nationalist identity, nor was it a space for colonial resistance to the Japanese, but instead it was a site for mutual engagement and cultural genesis with the Japanese...
62 min
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Brian DeMare, "Land Wars: The Story of China’s ...
Key to the psychological, political and economic transformations which unfolded in China’s million villages in the 1940s and ‘50s was a powerful narrative impulse – a Maoist “script”...
63 min
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Frederik H. Green, "Bird Talk and Other Stories...
Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...
66 min
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Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and...
Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....
89 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongo...
The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia.
64 min
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
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Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, "Branding Japan’s Food: ...
The authors argue that the definition of washoku in the UNESCO nomination is part of a longer history of manipulative place branding in Japan that has its roots in the premodern period....
56 min