New Books in East Asian Studies

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Marty Friedman with Jon Wiederhorn, "Dreaming J...
50 min
2
Avner Greif et al., "Two Paths to Prosperity: C...
46 min
3
Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the ...
58 min
4
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Everything You Wanted to ...
76 min
5
Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan'...
60 min
6
Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New Histo...
76 min
7
Nellie Chu, "Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fash...
61 min
8
Robert Whiting, "Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers...
32 min
9
James Lin, "The Global Vanguard: Agrarian Devel...
53 min
10
Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Pr...
41 min
11
Christopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital...
67 min
12
Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees a...
48 min
13
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested Histo...
67 min
14
Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Mi...
58 min
15
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
16
Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Callig...
Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention, and why that matters deeply in shaping how we understand the past, live in the present, and imagine possible futures.
77 min
17
Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation an...
68 min
18
Bin Chen, "Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern...
45 min
19
Su Hwa Keum, "From Juche to Jesus: A Study of W...
55 min
20
Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Co...
59 min
21
Competing Visions for International Order
28 min
22
Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugeni...
55 min
23
Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samurai" (Br...
68 min
24
Gregory T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher, "China ...
62 min
25
Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Moder...
An interview with Stevan Harrell
54 min