New Books in East Asian Studies
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Christopher Goscha, "Vietnam: A New History" (B...
Goscha brilliantly paints a picture of an ancient, diverse, and complex country which had already begun to modernize before the arrival of the French...
42 min
1227
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globaliz...
Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...
74 min
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Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press 2018)
66 min
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Jieun Baek, "North Korea's Hidden Revolution: H...
Based on interviews with North Koreans who have settled in the South, Baek shows how everything from television programs to foreign affairs coverage and fashion has made its way into the country from the outside world....
60 min
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Monica Kim, "The Interrogation Rooms of the Kor...
Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...
58 min
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Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Waste: Consuming Postwar...
More than a history of garbage and waste disposal, Waste is a look at the aspirations and discontents of a rapidly changing society...
71 min
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Andray Abrahamian, "North Korea and Myanmar: Di...
Abrahamian's work on each place is based on years of firsthand experience in these ‘outposts of tyranny’, as former-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice dubbed them in 2005...
61 min
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Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gu...
Fulton’s book is a timely contribution to discussion of the changing global balance of power as Gulf states
62 min
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Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The...
Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...
52 min
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Derek Hird and Geng Song, "The Cosmopolitan Dre...
China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years...
65 min
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Anne Reinhardt, "Navigating Semi-Colonialism: S...
At a time when trade between China and the outside world is rarely out of the news, it remains important to remember that in centuries past global commerce moved in directions very different from those which dominate the present...
61 min
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Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong, "Securing the ...
Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong’s Securing the Belt and Road, Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances Along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments (Red Globe Press, 2018) significantly contributes to an understanding not only of China’s ambitious infrastructure and energy driven Belt and Road Initiative, but also the increasing challenges it poses for China itself...
56 min
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Judd C. Kinzley, "Natural Resources and the New...
As public knowledge grows of the Chinese state’s subjugation of the central Asian region of Xinjiang, many may find themselves wondering what Beijing’s interest in this distant region is in the first place.
56 min
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Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicin...
Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity...
66 min
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Jinping Wang, "In the Wake of the Mongols: The ...
On the background of widespread portrayals of China as a monolithic geographical and political entity...
72 min
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Chad R. Diehl, "Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstr...
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War...
71 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Jennifer Altehenger, "Popularizing Laws in the ...
In her new book, historian Jennifer Altehenger, a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London, grapples with the complex issue of how authorities and cultural workers attempted to create effective law propaganda...
62 min
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Pedith Pui Chan, “The Making of a Modern Art Wo...
The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Gouhua in Republican Shanghai (Brill, 2017) investigates the production and consumption of guohua (“national painting”) in Shanghai between 1929 and the outbreak of the Second...
58 min
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Patrick Fuliang Shan, “Yuan Shikai: A Reapprais...
When he was elected president of China in 1912, Yuan Shikai was hailed as his nation’s George Washington, yet four years later he would die as the leader of a country in turmoil after a failed bid to become its emperor.
48 min
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Sandra Fahy, “Marching Through Suffering: Loss ...
Amidst an atmosphere of hope on the Korean Peninsula over the past year, questions over the wellbeing of North Korea’s population have again come to global attention. But this is far from the first time that such a subject has been in the news,
57 min
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Justyna Weronika Kasza, “Hermeneutics of Evil i...
In literature, evil can appear in a broad spectrum of shapes, images and motifs. For Endō Shūsaku, the problem of evil is central to the reality of human existence, and it has to be accepted as such. In Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku...
60 min
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Ching Kwan Lee, “The Specter of Global China: P...
Today we talked with Ching Kwan Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has just published The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2018),
47 min
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Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of ...
China’s growing presence in all of our worlds today is felt most keenly by those living directly on the country’s borders. They, together with the Chinese people who also inhabit the borderlands, are parties to a dazzling array of of China-driven trans...
56 min
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Yulia Frumer, “Making Time: Astronomical Time M...
Yulia Frumer’s new book follows roughly three hundred years of transformations in how time was conceptualized, measured, and materialized in Japan. Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (University of Chicago Press,
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