New Books in East Asian Studies

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.

Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com

Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/

Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork

Society & Culture
History
1
Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “T...
42 min
2
Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pa...
76 min
3
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centur...
68 min
4
Marty Friedman with Jon Wiederhorn, "Dreaming J...
50 min
5
Avner Greif et al., "Two Paths to Prosperity: C...
46 min
6
Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the ...
58 min
7
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Everything You Wanted to ...
76 min
8
Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan'...
60 min
9
Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New Histo...
76 min
10
Nellie Chu, "Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fash...
61 min
11
Robert Whiting, "Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers...
32 min
12
James Lin, "The Global Vanguard: Agrarian Devel...
53 min
13
Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Pr...
41 min
14
Christopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital...
67 min
15
Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees a...
48 min
16
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested Histo...
67 min
17
Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Mi...
58 min
18
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
19
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
20
Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation an...
68 min
21
Su Hwa Keum, "From Juche to Jesus: A Study of W...
55 min
22
Bin Chen, "Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern...
45 min
23
Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Co...
59 min
24
Competing Visions for International Order
28 min
25
Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugeni...
55 min