New Books in East Asian Studies
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Charlotte Brooks, "American Exodus: Second-Gene...
Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States...
65 min
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M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness:...
This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.
62 min
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Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North K...
Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...
47 min
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Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Me...
Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...
63 min
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Miriam Driessen, "Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitt...
Driessen finds that the hope of sharing China’s success with developing countries soon turns into bitterness, as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support and appreciation from Ethiopian laborers and local institutions...
27 min
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Erin Schoneveld, "Shirakaba and Japanese Modern...
Schoneveld shows how Shirakaba arose in opposition to the statist art of the young Meiji state,..
68 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Lian Xi, "Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Li...
In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...
75 min
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Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: ...
Jones explores many of the core doctrines, practices and controversies of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, situating them historically and in the modern period...
71 min
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Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats:...
Guiffrida tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008)...
81 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Wang Gungwu, "Home is Not Here" (NUS Press, 2018)
Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese...
38 min
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Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg, "Japan's Castl...
Benesch and Zwigenberg use the fate of castles after the Meiji coup of 1868 as a case study to explore aspects of Japan’s modern history including historical memory, cultural heritage, and state-civil society and national-regional relations...
99 min
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Christian Sorace, "Afterlives of Chinese Commun...
What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...
59 min
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Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformati...
Köll looks at the development of railroads in China from the late 19th century to the post-Mao reform period...
65 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
52 min
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Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology a...
Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...
72 min
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Larry Diamond, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy fro...
Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...
40 min
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religi...
Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...
82 min
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Nianshen Song, "Making Borders in Modern East A...
Song examines a tumultuous period in the history of this vital northeast Asian border, showing how it took shape before and during the era of Japanese empire...
60 min
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Evan N. Dawley, "Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenes...
Dawley traces the waves of newcomers to Taiwan beginning with Qing dynasty transplants from the southeastern coast of China...
65 min
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Nicholas Walton, "Singapore Singapura: From Mir...
Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...
60 min
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Yan Li, “China’s Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Cult...
Li offers a sophisticated argument that this all fed into an entire framework for socialist modernity which China sought to adopt at this crucial period in its history...
63 min
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Kyle A. Jaros, "China's Urban Champions: The Po...
65 min