New Books in East Asian Studies
Interviews with Scholars of East Asia about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of East Asia about their New Books
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- 2025-03-07 22:11
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- 2025-03-07 09:00
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| 2025-03-07 | China's household debt has exploded from 11% of GDP in 2006 to over 62% todayâa profound transformation in a traditionally savings-focused society. How is this reshaping social relationships and daily life? In this episode, Dr. Jiaqi Guo from the Unive... |
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| 2025-03-04 |
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024) Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho's enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. In Bong Joon Ho (U Illinois Press, 2024), Joseph Jonghyun Jeon provides a consideration of the director's entire... |
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| 2025-02-27 |
Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024) Kishore Mahbubani, longtime Singaporean diplomat and academic, opens his new memoir with a provocative line: âBlame it on the damn British.â Kishore, who later served as Singaporeâs ambassador to the UN and founding dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of P... |
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| 2025-02-23 | Popular English-language discourse about Taiwan often contains tropes like how âTaiwan is the real Chinaâ or how Taiwan âsplit with China in 1949â. Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrisonâs book Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World... |
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| 2025-02-22 |
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse How does social media shape perceptions of global cultural trends? On Chinese platforms like WeChat, the concept of Nordic Style (ĺ揧éŁ) has been widely adoptedâbut often in an oversimplified and commercialized form. In this episode of the Nordic Asia Po... |
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| 2025-02-20 | When we think of the sixteenth-century arrival of European missionaries in East Asia, there is a tendency to imagine this meeting as a civilizational clash, a great meeting of two fixed cultures. This clash is symbolized in the âRicci map(s)â: a map cr... |
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| 2025-02-19 | Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs (U Michigan Press, 2025) takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, revealing how their sacrifices hav... |
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| 2025-02-15 | As a rising infrastructure powerhouse, China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second to none. In Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China (Cambridge... |
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| 2025-02-12 | Dr. Seungsook Moonâs Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in July 2024. She provides in-depth qualitative studies of three different types of organizations to show how... |
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| 2025-02-11 |
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024) In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but inte... |
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