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East Asian Studies
Interviews with scholars of East Asia about their new books.
October 21, 2026
Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions
Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions: The Roots of Modern Korean (U Toronto Press, 2026) traces the emergence of vernacular Korean as a distinct …
October 17, 2026
Sublime Sociality
On the podcast today I am joined by Gareth Breen, Assistant Professor in anthropology at University of Sussex. Gareth is joining me to talk about his …
October 16, 2026
Living Chinese Philosophy
Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living"). In Living Chinese Philosophy: …
October 15, 2026
Satirical Tibet
The podcast episode with with Timothy Thurston covers his book Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo U Washington Press, 2025). …
October 15, 2026
Shanghai
The Bund's grand facades and the leafy streets of the former French Concession are usually read as monuments to Western enterprise in China. But those…
October 13, 2026
Making Sense of China's Economy
Making Sense of China's Economy (Routledge, 2023) untangles China’s complex economic structure, evolving issues and curious contradictions, and explai…
October 9, 2026
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Katherine L. Alexander explores how one late …
October 1, 2026
The Range of the River
Six great Asian river systems have their origins in the Tibetan glacial region: the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Red and t…
October 1, 2026
Alone in Japan
Japan has been aging for decades. The country’s birth rate first fell below the replacement rate in 1974, long before phrases like the “demographic tr…
September 30, 2026
Three Impeachments
Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court (U Washington Press, 2024) by Kent Guy tells the story of a series of impeachments brought by the cen…
September 30, 2026
Transient Becoming
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragment…
September 25, 2026
Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan
When the Taiwanese political drama Wave Makers appeared in April 2023, few anticipated its impact beyond the screen. Within weeks, survivors in politi…
September 24, 2026
The New Geography of Innovation
Increasingly, it seems like the corporate names that dominate headlines are much more diverse than they used to be. Samsung, TSMC, and SK Hynix. Aliba…
September 18, 2026
Witness to North Korea
Jerome Sauvage served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative in North Korea …
September 17, 2026
To Rule All Under Heaven
The Warring States Period is one of the most important times in China’s history. It marked the end of one dynasty–the Zhou–and the beginning of a new …
September 14, 2026
Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated
Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip (University of Hawaii Press, 2026) comprises translations of…
September 14, 2026
Domesticating Brown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Christopher B. Patterson, Professor of the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbi…
September 13, 2026
Be Water
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s co…
September 11, 2026
A Guide to Mao's China
A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests (Cornell UP, 2026) by Gavin Healy explores how tourism was reshaped during the Mao era. I…
September 8, 2026
Voices from North Korea
In this podcast, North Korean refugees who visited the University of Bradford share their harrowing experiences of life in North Korea, escape, and th…
