Ear to Asia

By Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne

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Tony
 Oct 5, 2018
I enjoy listening to the conversations and different perspectives on the region that I live in.

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On Ear to Asia, we talk with Asia experts to unpack the issues behind news headlines in a region that is rapidly changing the world. Ear to Asia is produced by Asia Institute, the Asia research specialists at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.


Episode Date
How will Indonesia fare under new president Prabowo Subianto?
Mar 20, 2024
As ethnic tensions rise, is there any real prospect of an inclusive Malaysia?
Mar 04, 2024
China wants to remake global governance – is the world ready for it?
Feb 13, 2024
Taiwan through the eyes of mainland Chinese writers and filmmakers
Jan 23, 2024
How the future of Indonesia's peatlands will shape climate change
Dec 11, 2023
Managing caste discrimination in the workplace
Nov 23, 2023
China's Pacific push: Assessing the impact on island nations
Nov 08, 2023
Aid under fire: The dilemmas facing humanitarian actors in strife-torn Myanmar
Oct 22, 2023
Vietnam's balancing act with powers great and near
Oct 04, 2023
The legacy of the War on Terror for Muslims in the West
Sep 17, 2023
Minding Xi’s business: How commercial enterprises navigate China’s political landscape
Aug 30, 2023
How do Cambodia’s ever closer ties with China affect Southeast Asia?
Aug 09, 2023
India's long and winding road to affordable and accessible healthcare
Jul 18, 2023
What Erdoğan’s staying power means for the future of Türkiye
Jun 27, 2023
Gauging the health of democracy in the Philippines under Bongbong Marcos
Jun 07, 2023
Why Taiwan leads the rest of Asia in recognising LGBTQ+ rights
May 22, 2023
All at sea: Contending with maritime disputes in the South China Sea and beyond
May 08, 2023
How a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan affects security in the region
Apr 23, 2023
Policing political discourse in Malaysia
Mar 27, 2023
How Australia's future depends on better understanding Asia
Mar 13, 2023
Policy reversals and political impact in China
Feb 28, 2023
The future of Taiwan-China relations: Is the status quo the best option?
Feb 11, 2023
Singing songs of rebels, rice and romance in China’s lower Yangtze Delta
Jan 29, 2023
A changed Hong Kong under China’s national security law
Jan 11, 2023
Who wants to be Indonesia’s next president?
Dec 15, 2022
The rise and rise of halal consumerism in Indonesia
Nov 16, 2022
What a Taliban theocracy means for Afghanistan
Oct 26, 2022
How can Sri Lanka continue to hedge between India and China?
Oct 05, 2022
What will it take to end the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan?
Sep 14, 2022
The human cost of South Korea’s era of transnational adoption
Aug 29, 2022
Contrasting memories of Japanese colonisation in Korea and Taiwan
Aug 09, 2022
Mindful of power: Politics and nationalism in Buddhist-majority societies
Jul 24, 2022
How China finds a home for 1.4 billion people
Jul 05, 2022
Getting China-Australia relations out of a rut
Jun 21, 2022
Thailand's simmering political discontent
Jun 05, 2022
Ending the cycle of political disarray in Malaysia
May 19, 2022
India's two-way bet on the US-Russia divide
May 05, 2022
Islamic finance in a fintech future
Apr 21, 2022
Pachinko: Korean fates and fortunes in Japan
Apr 06, 2022
Anxiety and aspiration in Japan-China relations
Mar 23, 2022
Beyond Squid Game: Translating Asian film and TV for a hungry global market
Mar 03, 2022
Decision making and dissent in the Chinese Communist Party
Feb 16, 2022
Growing the Australia-India relationship
Feb 01, 2022
Was Donald Trump on the money about China?
Jan 18, 2022
Indonesia's evolving post-pandemic political landscape
Dec 14, 2021
Weighing up the legacy of Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte
Nov 21, 2021
Intimate connections and exit strategies in a changing Japan
Nov 01, 2021
The political battle over health policy in Indonesia
Oct 10, 2021
Law and disorder in China-Australia relations
Sep 20, 2021
Is democracy at risk in India?
Sep 06, 2021
Framing and shaming body size in Japan
Aug 22, 2021
Who's fighting for the environment in China?
Aug 01, 2021
Caste and the corporation, in India and abroad
Jul 16, 2021
How seriously does Australia take the learning of Asian languages?
Jun 29, 2021
What growing China-Russia ties mean for the world order
Jun 04, 2021
Australia caught in the escalating US-China rivalry
May 07, 2021
Federalism to the rescue in ethnically divided Asian societies
Apr 23, 2021
Pakistan, the Taliban, and the future of Afghanistan
Apr 09, 2021
Traitors and treason in the collective Chinese imagination
Mar 19, 2021
India's soft power push with vaccine diplomacy
Mar 02, 2021
Sexual citizenship and Asian migration to Australia
Feb 19, 2021
Migrants from China grappling with acceptance in Australia
Feb 05, 2021
The fate of China's many languages
Jan 14, 2021
Can Australia do better in its relations with China?
Dec 02, 2020
Why the outrage over Indonesia's new job creation law?
Nov 17, 2020
How will Hong Kong march to China's new drum?
Oct 27, 2020
Who decides who's Muslim in modern Islamic states?
Oct 05, 2020
India and China jousting for control on the roof of the world
Sep 17, 2020
At what cost Turkey's foreign adventurism?
Sep 02, 2020
Vietnamese seeking their fortunes underground in Russia
Aug 17, 2020
Sculpting nations: the politics around statues in Asia
Aug 02, 2020
The market for Maoism outside China
Jul 12, 2020
Pushing back against plastic waste in Indonesia
Jun 28, 2020
Pandemic politics in Turkey
Jun 15, 2020
Kevin Rudd on China's place in a post-pandemic world
Jun 04, 2020
Is Indonesia's covid-19 response too little, too late?
May 21, 2020
Winners and losers in Indonesia's plans for a new capital city
May 08, 2020
Covid-19 in India: Cracking open the social and political fault lines?
Apr 22, 2020
The Kurdish struggle for political equality in Turkey
Apr 11, 2020
The demand for sand, and its impact in Asia
Mar 27, 2020
Power, privilege and race in Singapore
Mar 13, 2020
The push to end violence against women in the Asia Pacific
Feb 28, 2020
Freedom of thought under fire in China
Feb 13, 2020
What drives Australia-Indonesia relations?
Jan 30, 2020
LGBT rights in Japan in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympics
Dec 06, 2019
Empowering women in Indonesia's villages
Nov 22, 2019
Who's afraid of China?
Nov 08, 2019
The rise, fall and future of Turkey's Gülen movement
Oct 25, 2019
The road to Uyghur repression in China
Oct 11, 2019
Hard lessons for aid agencies at work in Myanmar
Sep 27, 2019
North Korea's top defector speaks his mind
Sep 13, 2019
The blessing and curse of Indonesia's resource economy
Aug 30, 2019
Living with disability in Asian societies
Aug 16, 2019
Weaponising social media in Indonesian politics
Aug 02, 2019
Sufism in an age of political Islam
Jul 19, 2019
Is Xi Jinping's heavy hand just what China needs?
Jul 05, 2019
Language choices and challenges in Indonesia
Jun 21, 2019
Being Korean in Japan
Jun 06, 2019
How household registration in China continues to divide society
May 24, 2019
Will Jokowi's victory be a win for Indonesia?
May 09, 2019
The war memory industries of China and Japan
Apr 26, 2019
Cambodia: Hun Sen's unrelenting grip on power
Apr 12, 2019
What a deepening China-Pakistan alliance means for India?
Mar 29, 2019
The evolving lives and language of women in Japan
Mar 15, 2019
How healthy is China's healthcare system?
Feb 28, 2019
China's long march to a utopian society
Feb 14, 2019
Can Japan stop its rapid population decline?
Jan 14, 2019
Indonesia's foreign policy priorities and predicaments
Dec 13, 2018
Homelands harnessing the power of their diasporas
Nov 23, 2018
Will Narendra Modi and the BJP prevail again in 2019?
Nov 09, 2018
Grappling with identity in Taiwan
Oct 25, 2018
Xi Jinping and China's Confucianist revival
Oct 11, 2018
India and China's growing strategic rivalry in the Indian Ocean
Sep 26, 2018
The price of rising inequality in Indonesia
Sep 13, 2018
Liquid ambition: China's megaproject bringing water to a parched north
Aug 31, 2018
Engineering public morality in China
Aug 17, 2018
Taking the pulse of democracy in Southeast Asia
Aug 02, 2018
In the pipeline: Bringing clean water to Timor-Leste
Jul 17, 2018
Manufacturing nationalism in China
Jul 03, 2018
20 years after Suharto, do human rights matter yet in Indonesia?
Jun 12, 2018
China's Xi Jinping: The man who would be Mao?
May 25, 2018
For an ageing China, will demography be destiny?
May 10, 2018
Liberalism in the firing line as Indonesia prepares for elections
Apr 25, 2018
Unforgiven: Japan through the eyes of Korea and China
Mar 14, 2018
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Audacious global strategy or Sino overreach?
Feb 27, 2018
Deciding what's a language in Tibet
Nov 22, 2017
Maintaining Balinese cultural identity at home in the Netherlands
Nov 07, 2017
Is "selectocracy" the secret to China's economic success?
Oct 25, 2017
The Purchasing Power Of Piety In Indonesia
Oct 10, 2017
Mulla Sadra: The Persian Islamic Thinker's Take On The Nature Of Reality
Sep 26, 2017
Fleeing North Korea
Sep 12, 2017
China's Smouldering Volcanoes Of Social Discontent
May 24, 2017
Celebrity Chef Adam Liaw On Life At The Intersection Of Nearly Everything
May 10, 2017
Translation As Performance Art
Apr 26, 2017
Kuwait: Walking The Sunni-Shia Tightrope
Apr 12, 2017
Is It Back To The Drawing Board For Indonesia's Education System?
Mar 29, 2017
Saving The Songs Of China's Yangtze Delta
Mar 14, 2017
All Under Heaven: China's Often Misunderstood Approach To Sovereignty
Jan 11, 2017
A Tale Of Two Diasporas: Indians In The Global Workforce
Dec 07, 2016
Sexual Citizenship And Same-sex Relationships In Japan
Nov 23, 2016
Memories Of '65: Young Indonesians Go Digital To Shine A Light On A Massacre Denied
Nov 09, 2016
Lost In Translation? Foreigners On Trial In Japan And The Language Divide
Oct 26, 2016
Modernity's Broken Promise And The Rise Of A New Islamic Populism
Oct 12, 2016
Ear To Asia - Teaser
Sep 28, 2016