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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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-05 00:01
- last episode published
- 2025-01-04 09:00
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- 4.03 days
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-04 |
Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020) Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender formally ended the war in the Pacific and brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in his... |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Jie Li, "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era" (Duke UP, 2020) In Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press, 2020) Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and it... |
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| 2025-01-02 | North Korea is, to this day, still one of the world’s most mysterious countries. What little we know about daily life in the country comes from defectors or foreigners who’ve spent time there–some of whom have been on this show. But both camps present ... |
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| 2024-12-31 | In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Alexandra Grey about Dr. Grey’s book entitled Language Rights in a Changing China: A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (De Gruyter, 2021). China has had constitution... |
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| 2024-12-26 | Many authors have written about the Manila Galleons, the massive ships that took goods back and forth between Acapulco and Manila, ferrying silver one way, and Chinese-made goods the other. But how did the Galleons actually work? Who paid for them? How... |
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| 2024-12-20 |
Hannah Gould et al., "Death and Funeral Practices in Japan" (Routledge, 2024) Death and Funeral Practices in Japan (Routledge, 2024) is an essential introductory text an often overlooked element of cultural expression. The books offers a succinct history to the development of funeral practices over time, and describes a typical ... |
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| 2024-12-20 | In this episode, our host Lara Momesso interviews Dr Isabelle Cockel, an academic based in the UK, to discuss the wider impact of her academic work. Isabelle’s extensive research on marriage and labour migrants in Taiwan has evolved into efforts to rai... |
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| 2024-12-13 |
Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023) For more than 70 years, South Korea has woven the threat of North Korea into daily life. But now that threat has become mundane, and South Korean national security addresses family, public health, and national unity. Banal Security: Queer Korea in the ... |
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| 2024-12-07 | Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) takes seriously attempts to reduce uncertainty around the timing, magnitude, and location of earthquakes in postwar Japan. Covering ... |
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| 2024-12-04 |
Russell Thomas, "Tofu: A Culinary History" (Reaktion Books, 2024) To the untrained eye there’s nothing as unexciting as tofu, normally regarded as a tasteless, beige, congealed mass of crushed, boiled soybeans. However, tofu more than stands up on its own. Reviled for decades as a vegetarian oddity, the brave, wobbly... |
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