New Books in East Asian Studies
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Kerim Yasar, "Electrified Voices: How the Telep...
Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...
89 min
1202
Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Co...
Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...
60 min
1203
Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Ro...
Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....
48 min
1204
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, "Democracy and Growth...
Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?
38 min
1205
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
1206
Gregory Smits, "Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650" (U ...
Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro sōshi(a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu...
65 min
1207
Kimberly Chong, "Best Practice: Management Cons...
What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?
43 min
1208
David Woodbridge, "Missionary Primitivism and C...
Woodbridge focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and documents the attempts made by their missionaries in China during the first half of the twentieth century...
25 min
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Matthew W. King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood...
Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject...
61 min
1210
Jane Caple, "Morality and Monastic Revival in P...
The revival of mass monasticism in Tibet in the early 1980s is one of the most extraordinary examples of religious resurgence in post-Mao China...
50 min
1211
Christina Yi, "Colonizing Language: Cultural Pr...
The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone
59 min
1212
Jeremy Black, "Imperial Legacies: The British E...
Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.
44 min
1213
Pang Yang Huei, "Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan,...
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...
54 min
1214
Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Gu...
Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'
63 min
1215
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The ...
Hong Fincher makes the case that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state...
47 min
1216
Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organ...
What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?
39 min
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Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: Th...
In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west...
54 min
1218
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in N...
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...
55 min
1219
Levi S. Gibbs, "Song King: Connecting People, P...
How does music link people across time and space?
63 min
1220
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
1221
Suk-Young Kim, "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Mu...
Given its expanding multimedia presence in Asia and around the world for many years now, K-pop is a phenomenon that is hard to ignore...
52 min
1222
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
1223
Sayaka Chatani, "Nation-Empire: Ideology and Ru...
34 min
1224
Emily Baum, "The Invention of Madness: State, S...
Baum's book is a genealogy of “psychiatric modernity,” of the invention and reinvention of modern mental illness in Beijing, 1901-1937...
63 min
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Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese ...
There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years...
55 min