Martin T. Fromm, "Borderland Memories: Searchin...
Fromm has much light to shed on how the country’s ruling Communist Party refashioned its relationship with its frontiers at an earlier point in history...
67 min
1077
Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japa...
Oda shows how city leaders and local residents in San Francisco fashioned a postwar municipal identity through their promotion of what Oda calls transpacific urbanism...
87 min
1078
Sabine Frühstück, "Playing War: Children and th...
Frühstück shows how children and childhood have been used in twentieth century Japan as technologies to moralize war, and later, in the twenty-first century, to sentimentalize peace...
42 min
1079
Jessica Starling, "Guardians of the Buddha’s Ho...
Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...
56 min
1080
Daniel Vukovich, "Illiberal China: The Ideologi...
Vukovich analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C...
70 min
1081
Betsy Perabo, "Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-...
Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...
46 min
1082
Danny Orbach, "Curse on This Country: The Rebel...
Orbach provides new insights into the origins of the insubordination that plagued and characterized the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s...
53 min
1083
Melissa McCormick, "The Tale of Genji: A Visual...
The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...
54 min
1084
Nancy S. Steinhardt, "Chinese Architecture: A H...
Steinhardt here draws on decades of exhaustive reading and tireless fieldwork to tell the story of Chinese building practices, principles and techniques across space and time...
"Becoming One" is a rich ethnographic study of the work of a Japanese NGO called the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement...
57 min
1086
Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Sov...
Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...
61 min
1087
Kate Harris, "Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey ...
Harris talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet...
Arch weaves together a wealth of diverse materials to demonstrate and explore the social, cultural, economic, intellectual, and religious impacts of whales on the world of Tokugawa Japan...
55 min
1089
Dean Anthony Brink, “Japanese Poetry and its Pu...
Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future?
37 min
1090
Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Hundred Days’ Literature: ...
Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens...
64 min
1091
T. Brook, M. van Walt van Praag, M. Boltjes, "S...
With thorny topics in Asian international relations, sovereignty, territory and borders in the news more or less daily, understanding what is at stake in this vitally important region, and why there are so many disagreements here, has never been more important...
65 min
1092
Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty T...
Her book explains what went right in China and how other developing countries could follow a similar approach to reform and institutional transition...
38 min
1093
Christopher Rea, "China's Chaplin: Comic Storie...
Rea introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh...
37 min
1094
Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory...
Ward brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions...
49 min
1095
Hye-Kyung Lee, "Cultural Policy in South Korea:...
Lee demonstrates the importance of South Korea is both an example in comparative cultural policy, and as a fascinating case study in its own right...
39 min
1096
Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Da...
What is “Chinese dance,” how did it take shape in during China’s socialist period, and how has this socialist form continued to influence Post-Mao expressive cultures in the People’s Republic of China?
64 min
1097
Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable...
The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...
69 min
1098
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
61 min
1099
Tsering Döndrup, "The Handsome Monk and Other S...
Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...
74 min
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Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Gr...
Contributors combine narrative analysis, visualized data, and dynamic maps with exceptional ease to introduce readers to infant burial practices in late imperial China, grave and cemetery relocation in Shanghai from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and grave relocation during the contemporary period...