East Asia Now
Episodes
David Rennie on Reporting on China and East Asia at The Economist
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Rennie, current geopolitics editor at The Economist, shared how he stumbled into journalism as well as stories that have stayed with him over 20...
Nick Lardy on Chinese Economics and U.S.-China Relations
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Lardy, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), offered a brief origin story of his entry into the...
John Fitzgerald on the History of Nationalism in China
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Fitzgerald, Senior Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra, discussed his professional journey and his work on the develo...
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez on the History of Abortion in Modern China
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, then Associate Professor of History at Missouri State University, joined David Fields, CEAS Associate Director, for a discuss...
Jean-François Di Meglio on China, the EU, and the US
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jean-François di Meglio, the President of Asia Centre, discussed EU-China relations and his professional experiences in internationa...
Kaiser Kuo on the Sinica Podcast and his journey as a China commentator
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kaiser Kuo, the host of the Sinica Podcast, sat down with CEAS's David Fields during his visit to the UW campus. He discussed how he became interested...
Aaron Skabelund on Inglorious, Illegal Bastards
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Aaron Skabelund of Brigham Young University discusses his path to Japanese history through his love for reading and opportunities to live in...
Brian Dott on How the Chile Pepper changed China
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the East Asia Now podcast, Professor Brian Dott of Whitman College discusses how he got into studying Chinese history through his f...
Melissa Macauley on the 19th C. Expansion of Chinese in Southeast Asia
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the East Asia Now podcast, Professor Melissa Macauley of Northwestern University discusses her interest in Chinese history and its ...
Brigid Vance on Dream Divination in the Ming Era
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence University’s Professor Brigid Vance discusses her background that led to her studying the intellectual and socio-cultural history of Ming D...
Matt Alt, "Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World"
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode CEAS Associate Director David Fields and Tokyo-based author Matt Alt discuss "fantasy delivery devices," the first karaoke machine and...
Junko Habu On What Food Insecurity in Pre-Modern Japan Can Teach Us About Sustainability
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode CEAS Associate Director David Fields speaks with Junko Habu, professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. Habu ...
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, "China Tomorrow: Democracy Or Dictatorship?"
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a talk given by Jean-Pierre Cabestan on his recent book China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship? Cabestan is a political scien...
Toshihiro Nakayama, "How Japan Handled the ‘Trump Shock’ and learned to Live with it"
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a talk given by Toshihiro Nakayama titled “"How Japan Handled the ‘Trump Shock’ and learned to Live with it: Understanding...
TransAsia and the World is now East Asia Now
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are excited to announce that TransAsia and the World is transitioning to East Asia Now an outreach initiative of the Center for East Asian Studies ...
Justin Tse on Asian American Religion
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 15 - Justin Tse discusses the trans-Pacific lives of Cantonese Protestants, his approach to the study of Asian American history and religion, ...
Joseph Ho on Missionary Photography in Republican China
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interview Joseph Ho about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photo...
Kathleen Gutierrez on the Politics of Nomenclature in the Philippines
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 13 - Philip Cerepak and Galen Poor interview PhD candidate Kathleen Gutierrez of the University of California-Berkeley about the politics of n...
Tom Mullaney on the History of Science and Technology
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12 - Galen Poor and Aijie Shi interview Tom Mullaney, Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. He discusses how thinking about tec...
Lin Li on The Transnational Redress Movement
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 11 - Galen Poor and Phillip Cerepak interview Lin Li, a PhD Candidate at UW-Madison. She discusses the politics of historical memory around Co...
Madihah Akhter on the Muslim Matriarchies of India
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10 - Galen Poor and Joy Block interview Madihah Akhter, a Ph.D Candidate in History at Stanford University. Akhter shares a fascinating set of...
Sarah Mellors on Birth Control in China
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 09 - Galen Poor & Joy Block interview Professor Sarah Mellors, Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University. Mellors discusses ...
Ayako Kano on Gender, the Largest Category of Human Experience
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 08 - Our Gender series kicks off as Sam Timinsky interviews Ayako Kano, Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Language...
William Noseworthy on State-Sponsored Violence in Cambodia & Indonesia
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 - Joy Block and Galen Poor talk with William Noseworthy, Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. A specialist in Southe...
Felix Jiménez Botta on the Politics of Cold War Humanitarianism
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 6 - Our series on Political Violence opens up our transnational perspective to consider how humanitarian organizations and political parties i...
Alex Macartney on Right to Violence & the Japanese Left
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 05 - Sam Timinsky and Joy Block talk with Alex Macartney, teaching fellow in Japanese & German History at Georgetown University. Also listen t...
William Marotti on Political Violence as a Strategy of Resistance
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 04 - Sam Timinsky interviews William Marotti, associate professor at UCLA, about why non-governmental groups resort to political violence. Li...
David Fields on North Korea Today
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 03b - Joy Block and Galen Poor interview David Fields, deputy director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution who earned his...
Roundtable on the North Korea Crisis
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 03a - On September 22, 2017, scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a roundtable discussion about what they called the “Nort...
Viren Murthy on Promise and Limitations of Transnational History
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 02 -Sam Timinsky interviews Viren Murthy, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A specialist in philosophy ...
Shelly Chan on Chinese History & Diaspora Studies
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 01 - Galen Poor and Evan Wells interview Shelly Chan, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A specialist in...
Introducing TransAsia & the World - Interview with the Editors
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 00 - Join the founding TransAsiaPod editors – Sam Timinsky, Joy Block, Evan Wells, and Galen Poor – for a conversation about transnational...