New Books in Chinese Studies
Episodes
Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years the resurgence of great power competition has gripped the headlines, with new emerging powers (such as Russia and China) seeking to ch...
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is digital vigilantism? How do Chinese citizens seek justice online? How does digital vigilantism reflect contemporary Chinese technological and ...
James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy by James Garrison (SUNY Press 2021), argues that the...
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A scholarly yet accessible biography of the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, one of the great historical figures of Tibetan Buddhism. Known for his mas...
Xavier Naville, "The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China" (Earnshaw Books, 2021)
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many Western entrepreneurs and businesses have foundered in trying to set up shop in China. Different expectations, different ways of doing business, ...
Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to the Buddhist scholars who stayed behind in Tibet and China after the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans fled from the Pe...
Andrew B. Kipnis, "The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China" (U California Press, 2021)
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke to Professor Andrew Kipnis about his book on social change in urban China from the perspective of funerals. In rural China funerals are...
Chia-Rong Wu, "Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan" (Cambria Press, 2020)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. Fro...
Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the Wa of Myanmar and how, in three decades, have they built a force that is now the largest non-state military actor in Asia-Pacific? How doe...
Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration (Routledge, 2021), Carlos M. Piocos explores the politics of gendered labor migrati...
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several gener...
Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In An Urban History of China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despit...
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong’s filmmaking ...
Nick R. Smith, "The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which...
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and cen...
Laurence Coderre, "Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China" (Duke UP, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke UP, 2021) is an exciting book that considers Chinese socialist cul...
David J. Mozina, "Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mozina’s Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice (U Hawaii Press, 2021) weaves together ethnography, textual analysis, pho...
Elizabeth Lacouture, "Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960" (Columbia UP, 2021)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To call the hundred years that straddle the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries as a radical period of change for China is an understatement, moving f...
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically...
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the impact of Internet technology communication in China? How do Chinese people view "privacy" differently from the western perspective? How i...
Ying Jia Tan, "Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955" (Cornell UP, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese ...
Minhua Ling, "The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge" (Stanford UP, 2020)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast today, I am joined by Minhua Ling, Assistant Professor in the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to talk a...
Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Y. Huang’s Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke UP, 2020) is an expansive and ambitious book that expl...
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One would think that comparing civilizations as far removed in time and space as Ancient Egypt and Ancient China might not reveal much. Yet Professor ...
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness an...
Dafydd Fell, "Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, Dafydd Fel...
Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Liang Luo's book The Global White Snake (U Michigan Press, 2021) examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional tra...
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – ...
Shen Yang, "More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter" (Balestier Press, 2021)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'I broke a law simply by being born.' In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China's One-Child Policy. As the second daugh...
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using s...
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Camilla T.N. Sørensen joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS for a conversation about the Indo-Pacific region as seen from a Danish an...
Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the extreme north of Laos, in Phongsali Province, lies a tiny village home to around 24 households. Until recently it was a monoethnic Khmu village...
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We think we know the history of China’s opening to the outside world. Maoist China was closed off, until Deng Xiaoping decided to reform the economy...
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's been a lot of resurgent interest in the Silk Routes lately, particularly looking at the cultural, political, and economic connections between ...
Daryl R. Ireland, "John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man" (Baylor UP, 2020)
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of read...
Jennifer Pan, "Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Development economists have been doing intensive research in recent years on conditional cash transfer programs as a tool to help get people out of po...
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural ...
Tonio Andrade, "The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China" (Princeton UP, 2021)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On January 10th, 1795, a very tired caravan arrives in Beijing. The travelers have journeyed from Canton on an accelerated schedule through harsh terr...
Kailing Xie, "Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China's Privileged Youn...
Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags, "Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past" (Routledge, 2020)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past (Routledge, 2020) studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and ...
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is China's new vision for regulating cyberspace? What does its new Data Security Law intend to do? Is China's Personal Information Protection Law...
Michael Berry, “China, Culturally Speaking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China, Culturally Speaking is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cult...
Andrew F. Jones, "Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Music from East Asia has recently been making its way round the world on waves created and mediated by new technologies and global interconnections. T...
Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1928 linguist Yuen Ren Chao had reason to celebrate. The Nationalist government had just recognized his system for writing Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatzy...
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of our understanding of the Mongol Empire begins and ends with Chinggis Khan and his sweep across Asia. His name is now included among conquerors...
Arunabh Ghosh, "Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China" (Princeton UP, 2020)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first historical study of the development of statistics in Mao-era China, Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Repu...
The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement: A Discussion with Bill Taylor
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is happening to the labor movement in Hong Kong? Why was May Day this year such a muted commemoration? And how have recent political upheavals in...
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Popular discussions of China’s growth prospects often focus on the success or failure specific industries. They might address the challenges rising ...
Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" (Top Floor Books, 2021)
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It can be easy to forget amongst the glistening skyscrapers, bustling streets and neon lights, but the Pearl River Delta used to be a haven for bandit...
C. Patterson Giersch, "Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China" (Stanford UP, 2020)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality i...
Peter E. Hamilton, "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong: Transpac...
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. Through the ages, word "horde" has entered the English lexicon with a negative connotation, conj...
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between Buddhism and politics? How might Buddhism be realized in this world? And how might Buddhist texts help legitimate new...
Annelise Heinz, "Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mahjong: many have played the game, but few are familiar with its rich and complex history. In Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern Ameri...
Emily Ng, "A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao" (U California Press, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If China’s Mao era is seen by many as a time of great upheaval and chaos, there are also people and places for whom things appear quite different. W...
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negot...
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does Southeast Asia face a stark choice between aligning with China or the United States? Can we understand domestic developments in the region as dri...
Manfred Elfstrom, "Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Post-socialist China has seen extensive labor unrest in the form of strikes, protests, and riots. The party-state has responded, sometimes with greate...
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How seriously should take the Chinese government’s discourse about ‘ecological civilization’? Mette Hansen argues that whatever the shortcomings...
William A. Callahan, "Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2020)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we theorize international relations by looking at how nose sizes are depicted in Asian art and literature? Why are Vietnamese immigration offi...
Yao Li, "Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the developing world, political turmoil often brings an end to promising economic growth stories. During its period of rapid economic growth in the...
Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a detailed historical look at how copyri...
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling betrayed by liberal ideals in the US and UK, how are Chinese international students dealing with rising racism during the pandemic? Bingchun M...
Eric Schluessel, "Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia" (Columbia UP, 2020)
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Schluessel’s Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia (Columbia UP, 2020) looks at what happened when, at the end of th...
Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China (University of Washington Press, 2021), Cheng Hsiao-wen’s monograph ...
Emei Burell, "We Served the People: My Mother's Stories" (Archaia, 2020)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the Cultural Revolution, many young Chinese in the cities were encouraged — if not ordered — to move to the countryside. Millions of young ...
Yinghong Cheng, "Discourses of Race and Rising China" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yinghong Cheng's book Discourses of Race and Rising China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is a critical study of the development of a racialised national...
How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Western media accounts often suggest that China is rising inexorably as a global economic and political powerhouse. A new book by Luke Patey offers a ...
John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge University Press, 2016), John D. Wong examines the ...
Odd Arne Westad, "Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations" (Harvard UP, 2021)
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Being arguably each side’s most enduring international bond, the China-Korea relationship has long been of great practical and symbolic importance t...
Kristen E. Looney, "Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kristen Looney’s Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia published by Cornell University in 2020 interrogates how cou...
Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Brazelton’s new book, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell UP, 2019) could hardly be more timely. D...
Jeanne Shea et al., "Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies" (Berghahn, 2020)
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these...
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, "A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How, and why did a ger (yurt) develop into the largest and most important monastery in Mongolia, and how did it support the authority of its main resi...
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did Geluk Buddhism become the most widespread school of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Asia and beyond? In Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhi...
Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives--ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures--to argue that pornograph...
Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Changan Jie, or Long Peace Street, stretches across central Beijing. Along it are several critical historical sites, including Zhongnanhai, Tiananmen ...
David Brophy, "In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2021)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Brophy's translation of Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari's In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty (Columbia Un...
Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu (Harvard UP, 2021) is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal...
Daniel C. Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control in China" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Art of Political Control in China (Cambridge University Press, 2019) shows how China's authoritarian state ensures political control by non-viol...
Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we make sense of the “durability and gigantic scale” of China’s economic expansion alongside the reports of “rising” and “explosive...
Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions: A Discussion with Stefania Travagnin
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The study of religion in China has a long history across a number of interrelated disciplines. In recent years, scholars have been reassessing past sc...
Simon Wickhamsmith, "Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does revolution literature help to engage Mongolia’s nomadic population with the utopia of a “new society” promised by the Mongolian People’...
Sean R. Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are currently eleven million Uyghurs living in China, but more than one million are being held in so-called reeducation camps. A cultural genoc...
Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu, "Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China" (Intellect Books, 2020)
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (Intellect Books, 2020) is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, part...
Tansen Sen and Brian Tsui, "Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What were the stories of modern China-India relations in the age of empires? How did India and China engage with each other beyond pan-Asianist and an...
Clara Iwasaki, "Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions Across the Transpacific" (Cambria Press, 2020)
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The texts that are examined in this study move in and out of different languages or are multilingual in their origins. Texts and authors do not move r...
Te-Ping Chen, "Land of Big Numbers: Stories" (Mariner Books, 2021)
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An old farmer, trying to build a plane in his village. A young man that gambles everything on the roaring stock market. A community transformed by a m...
Wu Cheng'en, "Monkey King: Journey to the West," trans. Julia Lovell (Penguin, 2021)
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Journey to the West, and especially the character of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is beloved by readers across China, East Asia, and beyond. The stor...
Xiaomei Chen, "Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda" (Columbia UP, 2016)
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Xiaomei Chen's Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda (Columbia UP, 2016) examines the changing place of revolu...
Xiaoping Fang, "China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agricul...
Ji Zhe et al., "Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-id...
Rana Mitter, "Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945" (HMH, 2013)
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If we wish to understand the role of China in today’s global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which tha...
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the Un...
Nicholas Jepson, "In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South" (Columbia UP, 2019)
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From 2002 to 2013, China’s rapid economic growth caused a boom in the prices of commodities—particularly of metals, fuel, and soybeans. According ...
Eika Tai, "Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eika Tai’s Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) tackles the complex histories of ...
Torsten Weber, "Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933" (Springer, 2018)
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by Torsten Weber examines how A...
Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Indo-Pacific already the most dominant in terms of global power, politics, and wealth? In his newest book, Michael R. Auslin considers the k...
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, "A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1" (U California Press, 2020)
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected is one of the most important Daoist texts, and a literary classic in its own right. The Declarati...
Yujie Zhu, "Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantation and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding C...