New Books in East Asian Studies
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1227
Gregory Scott, "Building the Buddhist Revival: ...
Scott focuses on reconstructions of Buddhist monasteries in modern China that took place in the period from 1866 to 1966,..
46 min
1228
Margaret Hillenbrand, "Negative Exposures: Know...
Focusing on the storied afterlives and artistic re-purposings of photographic images from key junctures of China’s twentieth-century – the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protests – Hillenbrand shows how they expose the subtle contours of what it is permissible and what impermissible to know...
58 min
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Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: En...
Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...
58 min
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G. Clinton Godart, "Darwin, Dharma, and the Div...
Godart brings to life more than a century of ideas by examining how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious thinkers of different faiths, philosophers, biologists, journalists, activists, and ideologues engaged with evolutionary theory and religion....
23 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and...
Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...
47 min
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Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My N...
Hara explores the collaboration between Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao, the film’s creator and director...
54 min
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Norman A. Kutcher, "Eunuch and Emperor in the G...
Eunuchs. Nobody liked them, everybody seems to have hated them, but, even so, they were an essential part of many states – even in the Qing...
71 min
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D. A. Bell and W. Pei, "Just Hierarchy: Why Soc...
What are the arguments in favor of social hierarchies?
53 min
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Michelle Murray, "The Struggle for Recognition ...
Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?
43 min
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Kirsten L. Ziomek, "Lost Histories: Recovering ...
Challenging conventional narratives of Japan’s colonial history that often centered on sites of dominance and oppression, Ziomek “reverse engineers” these narratives to focuses on the experiences of Japan’s colonial subjects,..
67 min
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Cole Roskam, "Improvised City: Architecture and...
Accompanied by a rich array of archival photos, maps and designs, Roskam’s book takes us down to street level,..
59 min
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Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Oroc...
Kim's book is the first monograph published in English on the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has inhabited northeast Asia for centuries...
60 min
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Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, "Chinese Folklore S...
The discipline of folkloristics in the People’s Republic of China is robust and well-funded...
70 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State...
Rebgong, in the Northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau (China’s Qinghai Province), is in the midst of a ‘Battle for Fortune.’
84 min
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Daniel Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control...
Mattingly argues that civil society can encourage contributions to public goods like roads, schools, and charities, civil associations increase the prestige and authority of local elites who can help insure political compliance...
36 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Eric Setzekor, "The Rise and Fall of an Officer...
Between 1942 and 1955, Setzekorn argues, professionally-minded officers within the KMT leveraged their military partnership with the United States to build China's first truly national army...
56 min
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Mark Gamsa, “Manchuria: A Concise History” (Blo...
The term ‘Manchuria’ conjures up all manner of evocative associations for people interested in East Asian and world history,..
48 min
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Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cult...
Marsili offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE)...
75 min
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Ching-yuen Cheung, "Globalizing Japanese Philos...
Cheung discusses the most important points of the book while at the same time digressing (philosophically, of course) to various other themes, from the practice of teaching philosophy to the advantages and dangers of English as a lingua franca...
61 min
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Elizabeth Economy, "The Third Revolution: Xi Ji...
Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...
27 min
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Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlighten...
Lovins explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch...
66 min