New Books in East Asian Studies
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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
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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
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Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organ...
What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?
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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
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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
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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
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Levi S. Gibbs, "Song King: Connecting People, P...
How does music link people across time and space?
63 min
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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
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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
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Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
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Sayaka Chatani, "Nation-Empire: Ideology and Ru...
34 min
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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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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
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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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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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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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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...
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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.
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