New Books in East Asian Studies
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 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
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Alexander Bukh, "These Islands Are Ours" (Stanf...
Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...
77 min
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mo...
Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...
59 min
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Diana Fu, "Mobilizing Without the Masses: Contr...
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do?
41 min
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: Hong Kong on the B...
Wasserstrom provides a nuanced yet accessible overview of the struggle between Hong Kong and China over self-governance and civil liberties...
50 min
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Johan Elverskog, "The Buddha’s Footprint: An En...
Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...
86 min
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Julia C. Strauss, "State Formation in China and...
Strauss offers a comparative study of regime consolidation in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) after 1949...
95 min
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Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at th...
Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...
49 min
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Wasana Wongsurawat, "The Crown and the Capitali...
One can’t understand modern Thailand without understanding the role of the ethnic Chinese...
51 min