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Interviews with Scholars of China about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

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Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 02, 2024
Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 30, 2024
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2024
Philipp Demgenski, "Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Apr 22, 2024
Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Apr 18, 2024
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 18, 2024
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Astrid Møller-Olsen, "Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction" (Cambria, 2022)
Apr 16, 2024
Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 09, 2024
Psychedelics, Mysticism, Aliens, and the Dao (Pierce Salguero and Dominic Steavu)
Apr 08, 2024
Andres Rodriguez, "Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919-45" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
Apr 06, 2024
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Chia-ling Yang, "Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024
Jeffrey A. Javed, "Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2024
Noo Saro-Wiwa, "Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China" (Canongate Books, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024
Fran Martin, "Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West" (Duke UP, 2021)
Mar 20, 2024
Niki J. P. Alsford, "Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Mar 19, 2024
Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Mar 15, 2024
Charlotte Setijadi, "Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Mar 06, 2024
Zhongping Chen, "Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 04, 2024
Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
Feb 28, 2024
Peter Harmsen, "Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" (Casemate, 2015)
Feb 26, 2024
Mai Corlin, "The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Feb 26, 2024
Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Feb 26, 2024
The Future of the Chinese Military: A Discussion with James A. Siebens
Feb 23, 2024
Lu Xun, "Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 13, 2024
Cheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2024
Xuelei Huang, "Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024
Anru Lee, "Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Feb 09, 2024
Wendy Cheng, "Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Florence Mok, "Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c.1966-97" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Hedwig Amelia Waters, "Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share" (UCL Press, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin, "Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy" (Hachette, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Alex Burchmore, "New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Feb 02, 2024
James St. André, "Conceptualising China through Translation" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024
Paul D. Barclay, "Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising" (Eastbridge Books, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024
Comics Journalism in Taiwan: The Reporter File
Jan 13, 2024
Maria Repnikova, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jan 06, 2024
M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 05, 2024
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
Jan 05, 2024
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 04, 2024
Denise Y. Ho, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Dec 30, 2023
Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 28, 2023
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 27, 2023
Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023
James Cummings, "The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dec 19, 2023
June Hee Kwon, "Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers" (Duke UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Jean Yen-chun Lin, "A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)
Dec 08, 2023
Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)
Dec 07, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?
Dec 06, 2023
Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 06, 2023
Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
Dec 02, 2023
Book Chat: Eco-translation from Taiwan and Wu Ming-yi’s The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記, with Darryl Sterk
Dec 02, 2023
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023
Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 28, 2023
Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 19, 2023
Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 16, 2023
Huping Ling, "Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2023
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023
A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
Nov 11, 2023
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
Jieh-min Wu, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 09, 2023
Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 03, 2023
Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023
Ji Li, "At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023
Shellen Xiao Wu, "Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
Chris Fraser, "Late Classical Chinese Thought" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
Oct 20, 2023
Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023
Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
Oct 09, 2023
Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)
Oct 08, 2023
Angelina Chin, "Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Oct 03, 2023
The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang
Oct 02, 2023
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Sep 29, 2023
The Secret History of the Mongols
Sep 24, 2023
Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023
Hongwei Bao, "Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 18, 2023
Julia C. Schneider, "Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)" (Brill, 2017)
Sep 15, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Sep 10, 2023
Tom Culham and Jing Lin, "Daoist Cultivation of Qi and Virtue for Life, Wisdom, and Learning" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Sep 10, 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 09, 2023
Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)
Sep 08, 2023
Altman Yuzhu Peng, "A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere" (Palgrave Pivot, 2020)
Sep 06, 2023
Beth Tsai, "Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
Aug 26, 2023
Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 17, 2023
Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023
Book Chat: Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese Writer Wu Ming-yi
Aug 13, 2023
Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)
Aug 10, 2023
Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Aug 08, 2023
Film Chat: Hsin-Chien Huang on VR Film in Taiwan
Jul 30, 2023
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023
Po-Shek Fu, "Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jul 23, 2023
Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 21, 2023
Scott E. Simon, "Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jul 20, 2023
Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)
Jul 20, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023
Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 18, 2023
Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023
Yi-Lin Chiang, "Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jul 11, 2023
Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)
Jul 09, 2023
Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 08, 2023
Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)
Jul 06, 2023
Xin Zhang, "The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, "Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories" (Scribner, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
Jun 25, 2023
Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Jun 25, 2023
Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma
Jun 24, 2023
Yue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 19, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 08, 2023
Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 07, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 05, 2023
Brantly Womack, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 02, 2023
Book Chat: "The Suspended Island: Taiwan and the Balance of the World" (LUISS UP, 2022)
Jun 02, 2023
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 24, 2023
Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 22, 2023
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
May 22, 2023
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
May 18, 2023
Daniel A. Bell, "The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan, "Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader" (Springer, 2023)
May 16, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
May 14, 2023
Theodor Tudoroiu and Anna Kuteleva, "China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions" (Springer, 2023)
May 13, 2023
China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes
May 12, 2023
James M. Zimmerman, "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 11, 2023
Stephen Roach, "Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives" (Yale UP, 2022)
May 06, 2023
Andrew Small, "No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West" (Melville House, 2022)
May 04, 2023
Jay Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
May 03, 2023
What Can China's Identity Politics Tell Us About Affirmative Action?
May 01, 2023
Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Robert J. Antony, "Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023
Nicole Constable, "Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations" (U California Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2023
Sylvia Ang, "Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Apr 19, 2023
Cao Yin, "Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 19, 2023
Li-Chun Hsiao, "The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 18, 2023
Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
Apr 16, 2023
Lachlan McNamee, "Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 12, 2023
Sinobabble: A Podcast about Modern Chinese History
Apr 12, 2023
Tim Simpson, "Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 11, 2023
Mercedes Valmisa, "Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 08, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Apr 02, 2023
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
Mar 23, 2023
Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 23, 2023
Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Mar 22, 2023
Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
China's Century? Why America's Edge Will Endure
Mar 20, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
Mar 19, 2023
Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez, "China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023
Ian Rowen, "One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023
Academic Chat: Reflecting on Hu Tai-li’s Indigenous Ethnographic Work in Taiwan
Mar 17, 2023
Book Chat: "Human Glitches" (2020)
Mar 16, 2023
Book Chat: "Taiwan’s Green Parties. Alternative Politics in Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 15, 2023
Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu
Mar 14, 2023
Book Chat: Comics in Taiwan
Mar 13, 2023
Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Mar 13, 2023
Book Chat: Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi
Mar 12, 2023
Film Chat: Queer, Sci-Fi and the Family
Mar 11, 2023
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Mar 10, 2023
Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 09, 2023
Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
Mar 09, 2023
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
Mar 08, 2023
Book Chat: "Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 07, 2023
The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
Mar 07, 2023
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
Birth Rates and the Future of Social Movements: A Discussion with Jack Goldstone
Mar 06, 2023
Book Chat: "The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory and Identity in Modern Taiwan" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 06, 2023
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
Mar 05, 2023
Aram Hur, "Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Chien-Wen Kung, "Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Seiji Shirane, "Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li, "Taiwanese Literature as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023
Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese
Feb 17, 2023
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 15, 2023
Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho, "Material Contradictions in Mao's China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Feb 13, 2023
Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
Feb 10, 2023
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2023
Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 30, 2023
Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
Jan 28, 2023
Myanmar Jewellers in China
Jan 27, 2023
Gillian Tan, "Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet" (Springer, 2018)
Jan 24, 2023
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jan 15, 2023
Hung-Yok Ip, "Grassroots Activism of Ancient China: Mohism and Nonviolence" ( Lexington Books, 2022)
Jan 09, 2023
Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
Jan 05, 2023
Magnus Fiskesjö, "Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Jan 01, 2023
Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi, "Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 29, 2022
Daniel Barish, "Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861-1912" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Dec 27, 2022
Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath
Dec 26, 2022
Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Wendi L. Adamek, "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (Hamburg Buddhist Studies, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022
John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Dec 22, 2022
Jeremy L. Wallace, "Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Jingjing Li, "Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2022
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 15, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
Dec 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022
Is China's Communist Party Threatened by the Protests?
Dec 12, 2022
Rohan Mukherjee, "Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Dec 09, 2022
John Delury, "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Dec 04, 2022
Adam Brookes, "Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City" (Atria Books, 2022)
Dec 02, 2022
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
The Future of Xi and China: A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong
Nov 30, 2022
Viren Murthy, "The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
Paul D. Barclay, "Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's 'Savage Border,' 1874-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
Nov 24, 2022
John Keay, "Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2022
Lynette H. Ong, "Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 18, 2022
Towards a Green China
Nov 18, 2022
Sisi Sung, "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 16, 2022
Natali Pearson, "Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
James Griffiths, "Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language" (Zed Books, 2021)
Nov 15, 2022
Howard Chiang, "Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022
Meredith Schweig, "Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Jianglin Li, "When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Nov 09, 2022
Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022
Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu
Oct 21, 2022
Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 20, 2022
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
Oct 18, 2022
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation
Oct 06, 2022
John Saeki, "The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked the Hills Beyond the City" (Blacksmith Books, 2021)
Oct 06, 2022
Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke
Oct 05, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 04, 2022
NBN Classic: Rebecca E. Karl, “China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History” (Verso, 2020)
Oct 02, 2022
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
Sep 30, 2022
Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
Sep 23, 2022
Suyoung Son, "Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 22, 2022
Andrew Grant, "The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Manoj Joshi, "Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya" (Hurst, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
Chinese Outbound Tourism: Leisure or Political Tool?
Sep 09, 2022
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 08, 2022
Joseph Torigian, "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China After Stalin and Mao" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
Vietnam and China: Strange Bedfellows in the Era of Strategic Competition
Sep 01, 2022
Brian DeMare, "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022
Fiona Moore, "Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2022
Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Aug 16, 2022
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022
William Matthews, "Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Aug 15, 2022
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022
On "The Great Learning"
Aug 11, 2022
Steven B. Miles, "Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 09, 2022
David R. Stroup, "Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Aug 09, 2022
Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
Ariane Knüsel, "China's European Headquarters: Switzerland and China During the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy
Aug 05, 2022
On "The Story of the Stone"
Aug 04, 2022
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Aug 02, 2022
Jin Feng, "Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Aug 01, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
Aug 01, 2022
Cole Roskam, "Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022
Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 25, 2022
85* Pu Wang and John Plotz look back on their Cixin Liu interview
Jul 21, 2022
John Fitzgerald, "Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party" (NewSouth Books, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022
Hsin-I Cheng, "Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship" (Lexington, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Vivian Jing Zhan, "China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
Jennifer Lin, "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China" (Temple UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
Veronica S. W. Mak, "Milk Craze: Body, Science, and Hope in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Jul 14, 2022
The Future of Hong Kong: A Discussion with Ho-Fung Hung
Jul 12, 2022
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
Jul 08, 2022
84* Cixin Liu Talks About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)
Jul 07, 2022
Meng Zhang, "Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 06, 2022
Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jul 04, 2022
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jul 04, 2022
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Jul 01, 2022
Victor Seow, "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 29, 2022
Eli Friedman, "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
Jun 17, 2022
Juwen Zhang, "The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
Michael Berry, "The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Stan Lai, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Lin Song, "Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022
Yi Gu, "Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022
Hentyle Yapp, "Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 09, 2022
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Jun 03, 2022
Joshua Neves, "Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jun 03, 2022
Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Jun 02, 2022
Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)
May 31, 2022
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World" (Oneworld, 2021)
May 30, 2022
Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
May 27, 2022
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)
May 26, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
May 25, 2022
Mayfair Yang, "Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
May 24, 2022
Jiwei Xiao, "Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature" (Routledge, 2022)
May 23, 2022
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Andrew D. Morris, "Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)
May 20, 2022
Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China
May 20, 2022
Corey Byrnes, "Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges" (Columbia UP, 2019)
May 19, 2022
Christopher Carothers, "Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 17, 2022
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
May 13, 2022
Geopolitics in the Mekong Region: The Role of Chinese Energy Politics in Laos and Cambodia
May 12, 2022
Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
May 09, 2022
Mikkel Bunkenborg et al., "Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 09, 2022
Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic
May 09, 2022
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
May 06, 2022
Katie Stallard, "Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 06, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Ban Wang, "China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 03, 2022
Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022
Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil, "Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Apr 29, 2022
Robert Cliver, "Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 27, 2022
Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, "Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Apr 26, 2022
Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 26, 2022
Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022
Terry Lautz, "Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2022
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
Apr 21, 2022
Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022
Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen, "Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022
Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Karen Cheung, "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir" (Random House, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022
Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 13, 2022
Robert Barnett et al., "Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold : Essays and Primary Documents" (Brill, 2020)
Apr 13, 2022
Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?
Apr 08, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Apr 06, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Apr 06, 2022
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 05, 2022
China, Buddhism and the Belt and Road Initiative in Mainland Southeast Asia
Mar 31, 2022
Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
Mar 25, 2022
China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis
Mar 25, 2022
Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022
Jing Tsu, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Mar 24, 2022
Peter B. Lavelle, "The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Mar 22, 2022
Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Mar 15, 2022
Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2022
On the Resurgence of Taoism and Christianity in China
Mar 09, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2022
Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Mar 01, 2022
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
Feb 28, 2022
Aminta Arrington, "Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China" (PSU Press, 2020)
Feb 28, 2022
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
Feb 22, 2022
Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China
Feb 21, 2022
Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Feb 14, 2022
Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 11, 2022
Paul French, "Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day" (Penguin, 2018)
Feb 10, 2022
Liz P. Y. Chee, "Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Leilei Chen, "Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding" (U Regina Press, 2016)
Feb 09, 2022
Peilin Liang, "Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater" (Routledge, 2021)
Feb 07, 2022
Colin Thubron, "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" (Harper, 2021)
Feb 03, 2022
Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 02, 2022
Alexander Dukalskis, "Making the World Safe for Dictatorship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Neil J. Diamant, "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 31, 2022
Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022
Catherine S. Chan, "Macanese Diaspora in British Hong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Howard Chiang, "Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader" (Cambria Press, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022
Heidi Wang-Kaeding, "China's Environmental Foreign Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Ziying You, "Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Jan 18, 2022
Ruth Mostern, "The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022
Sumantra Bose, "Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022
Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia
Jan 07, 2022
Cheng Li, "Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement" (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)
Jan 06, 2022
East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
Dec 27, 2021
Shelly Chan, "Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration" (Duke UP, 2018)
Dec 24, 2021
Megan Stewart, "Governing for Revolution: Statebuilding in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021
Yeling Tan, "Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Dec 20, 2021
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Chun-Yi Peng, "Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions" (Springer, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai
Dec 10, 2021
Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Amish Raj Mulmi, "All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Contest for the Himalayas" (Context, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Negotiated Environmentalism: Influences of Domestic Interest Groups in China’s Environmental Foreign Relations
Dec 06, 2021
Shaoling Ma, "The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 03, 2021
Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19
Dec 03, 2021
Shao-yun Yang, "The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Nov 30, 2021
Sunhee Koo, "Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
Nov 23, 2021
James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
Nov 19, 2021
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
Nov 18, 2021
Xavier Naville, "The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China" (Earnshaw Books, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 17, 2021
Andrew B. Kipnis, "The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China" (U California Press, 2021)
Nov 09, 2021
Chia-Rong Wu, "Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Nov 05, 2021
Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Nov 05, 2021
Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2021
Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Nick R. Smith, "The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
Oct 22, 2021
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021
Laurence Coderre, "Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China" (Duke UP, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
David J. Mozina, "Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Elizabeth Lacouture, "Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Oct 14, 2021
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
Ying Jia Tan, "Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
Minhua Ling, "The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Sep 29, 2021
Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
Sep 26, 2021
Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
Sep 22, 2021
Dafydd Fell, "Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 21, 2021
Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Shen Yang, "More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter" (Balestier Press, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Sep 01, 2021
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
Aug 20, 2021
Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos
Aug 19, 2021
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021
Daryl R. Ireland, "John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man" (Baylor UP, 2020)
Aug 02, 2021
Jennifer Pan, "Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 29, 2021
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021
Tonio Andrade, "The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 22, 2021
Kailing Xie, "Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jul 21, 2021
Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags, "Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
Jul 16, 2021
Michael Berry, “China, Culturally Speaking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021
Andrew F. Jones, "Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Jul 16, 2021
Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jul 15, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jul 08, 2021
Arunabh Ghosh, "Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 07, 2021
The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement: A Discussion with Bill Taylor
Jul 02, 2021
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 02, 2021
Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" (Top Floor Books, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
C. Patterson Giersch, "Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Jun 30, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021
Peter E. Hamilton, "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Jun 25, 2021
Annelise Heinz, "Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 24, 2021
Emily Ng, "A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jun 21, 2021
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
Jun 21, 2021
Manfred Elfstrom, "Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 18, 2021
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
Jun 18, 2021
William A. Callahan, "Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 14, 2021
Yao Li, "Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jun 11, 2021
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
Jun 07, 2021
Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jun 07, 2021
Eric Schluessel, "Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 04, 2021
Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
May 28, 2021
Emei Burell, "We Served the People: My Mother's Stories" (Archaia, 2020)
May 27, 2021
Yinghong Cheng, "Discourses of Race and Rising China" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
May 26, 2021
How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey
May 17, 2021
John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
May 13, 2021
Odd Arne Westad, "Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Kristen E. Looney, "Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
May 03, 2021
Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Apr 30, 2021
Jeanne Shea et al., "Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies" (Berghahn, 2020)
Apr 29, 2021
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, "A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Apr 23, 2021
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2021
Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021
Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Apr 15, 2021
David Brophy, "In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 14, 2021
Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 06, 2021
Daniel C. Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control in China" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 01, 2021
Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions: A Discussion with Stefania Travagnin
Mar 29, 2021
Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 29, 2021
Sean R. Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021
Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu, "Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China" (Intellect Books, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021
Simon Wickhamsmith, "Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021
Tansen Sen and Brian Tsui, "Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021
Clara Iwasaki, "Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions Across the Transpacific" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Mar 19, 2021
Te-Ping Chen, "Land of Big Numbers: Stories" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Mar 18, 2021
Wu Cheng'en, "Monkey King: Journey to the West," trans. Julia Lovell (Penguin, 2021)
Mar 11, 2021
Jie Li, "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era" (Duke UP, 2020)
Mar 11, 2021
Xiaomei Chen, "Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 10, 2021
Xiaoping Fang, "China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Mar 09, 2021
Ji Zhe et al., "Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Feb 24, 2021
Rana Mitter, "Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945" (HMH, 2013)
Feb 19, 2021
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
Feb 18, 2021
Nicholas Jepson, "In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Feb 17, 2021
Eika Tai, "Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021
Torsten Weber, "Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933" (Springer, 2018)
Feb 12, 2021
Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
Feb 08, 2021
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, "A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1" (U California Press, 2020)
Feb 01, 2021
Yujie Zhu, "Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
Jan 29, 2021
Bill Sewell, "Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45" (UBC Press, 2019)
Jan 25, 2021
Benno Weiner, "The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2021
Ian M. Miller, "Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 21, 2021
Roberta Zavoretti, "Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China" (U Washington Press, 2016)
Jan 20, 2021
Els van Dongen, "Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 18, 2021
Guojun Wang, "Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 14, 2021
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou" (Abbreviated Press, 2019)
Jan 14, 2021
Rachel Silberstein, "A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 13, 2021
Nicholas Bartlett, "Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China" (U California Press, 2020)
Jan 08, 2021
William C. Hedberg, "The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jan 07, 2021
Kelly A. Hammond, "China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II" (UNC Press, 2020)
Dec 30, 2020
John Wei, "Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Ronald C. Po, "The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Dec 24, 2020
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Enze Han, "Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State-Building Between China and Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 21, 2020
Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 18, 2020
Sharon J. Yoon, "The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Geoffrey C. Goble, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 15, 2020
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 08, 2020
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Cold War" (Bite-Sized Books, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Covell F. Meyskens, "Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 01, 2020
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020
David Chai, "Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Nov 20, 2020
David Tobin, "Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020
Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Nov 19, 2020
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity and China’s Soft Power: A Discussion with Dr Josh Stenberg
Nov 12, 2020
Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020
Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 04, 2020
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Nov 03, 2020
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Oct 23, 2020
Li Zhang, "Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 22, 2020
Christopher Lupke (trans.), "A History of Taiwan Literature" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020
C. Chan and F. de Londras, "China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law?" (Hart, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020
Karl Gerth, “Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 25, 2020
Brian R. Dott, “The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Sep 23, 2020
Sean Roberts, “The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020
Mary Augusta Brazelton, “Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Aug 31, 2020
Philip Thai, “China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 24, 2020
Ting Zhang, “Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China” (U Washington Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2020
Postscript: A Deep Dive on China
Aug 10, 2020
Mayfair Yang, “Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China” (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Andreas Fulda, “The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong” (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 17, 2020
Eugenia Lean, “Vernacular Industrialism in China”(Columbia UP, 2020)
Jul 17, 2020
Yuhang Li, “Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jul 14, 2020
Gina Anne Tam, “Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 07, 2020
He Bian, “Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 02, 2020
Charlotte Bruckermann, “Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China” (Berghahn Books, 2019)
Jun 24, 2020
Brian DeMare, “Land Wars: The Story of China’s Agrarian Revolution” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jun 18, 2020
Diana Fu, “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
May 27, 2020
Julia C. Strauss, “State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 20, 2020
Courtney J. Fung, “China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status” (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 19, 2020
Yue Hou, “The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 30, 2020
Chris Courtney, “The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 28, 2020
Gregory A. Scott, “Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 16, 2020
Margaret Hillenbrand, “Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China” (Duke UP, 2020)
Apr 02, 2020
Margaret E. Roberts, “Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 31, 2020
Charlene Makley, “The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 10, 2020
Daniel C. Mattingly, “The Art of Political Control in China” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 04, 2020
Eric Setzekorn, “The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps: The Republic of China Military, 1942-1955” (U Oklahoma Press, 2018)
Jan 30, 2020
Filippo Marsili, “Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to ‘Religion’ and Empire in Ancient China” (SUNY Press, 2018)
Jan 17, 2020
Xiao Liu, “Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Jan 02, 2020
Charlotte Brooks, “American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949” (U California Press, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019
Ayo Wahlberg, “Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China” (U California Press, 2018)
Dec 18, 2019
Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 17, 2019
Lian Xi, “Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao’s China” (Basic Books, 2018)
Nov 21, 2019
Elisabeth Köll, “Railroads and the Transformation of China” (Harvard UP, 2019)
Oct 28, 2019
Yan Li, “China’s Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination” (Routledge, 2018)
Sep 27, 2019
Kyle A. Jaros, “China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Sep 23, 2019
Jenny Huangfu Day, “Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 29, 2019
Martin T. Fromm, “Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 16, 2019
Daniel Vukovich, “Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the People’s Republic of China” (Palgrave, 2019)
Jul 22, 2019
Yuen Yuen Ang, “How China Escaped the Poverty Trap” (Cornell UP, 2016)
Jul 02, 2019
Christopher Rea, “China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jul 01, 2019
Jonathan D. T. Ward, “China’s Vision of Victory” (Atlas Publishing, 2019)
Jun 28, 2019
Jennifer Hubbert, “China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Jun 24, 2019
Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2019
Megan Bryson, “Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Jun 05, 2019
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, “Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century: The Diverging Cases of China and Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
May 22, 2019
Kimberly Chong, “Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China” (Duke UP, 2018)
May 20, 2019
Pang Yang Huei, “Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958” (Hong Kong UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2019
Leta Hong Fincher, “Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China” (Verso, 2018)
Apr 12, 2019
Levi S. Gibbs, “Song King: Connecting People, Places and Past in Contemporary China” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Apr 02, 2019
Emily Baum, “The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Mar 08, 2019
Jonathan Fulton, “China’s Relations with the Gulf Monarchies” (Routledge, 2018)
Jan 17, 2019
Anne Reinhardt, “Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937” (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
Jan 02, 2019
Judd C. Kinzley, “Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Dec 20, 2018
Howard Chiang, “After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Dec 17, 2018
Jinping Wang, “In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China 1200-1600” (Harvard Asia Center, 2018)
Dec 14, 2018
Thomas Borchert, “Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Dec 07, 2018
Jennifer Altehenger, “Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989” (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
Dec 04, 2018
Ching Kwan Lee, “The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Oct 25, 2018
Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)t
Oct 18, 2018
James M. Dorsey, “China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Sep 27, 2018
Stephen R. Platt, “Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age” (Knopf, 2018)
Sep 24, 2018
Michael Szonyi, “The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Sep 13, 2018
Fabio Lanza, “The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies” (Duke UP, 2017)
Aug 31, 2018
Philip Thai, “China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 21, 2018
Gordon Mathews, “The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 03, 2018
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jun 29, 2018
Hongwei Bao, “Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China” (NIAS Press, 2018)
Jun 25, 2018
Erik Mueggler, “Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
May 21, 2018
Kathlene Baldanza, “Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
May 07, 2018
Ji-Young Lee, “China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination” (Columbia UP, 2017)
May 03, 2018
Yutao Sun and Seamus Grimes, “China and Global Value Chains” (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 30, 2018
Sida Liu and Terence C. Halliday, “Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 06, 2018
Taisu Zhang, “The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship Property in Preindustrial China and England” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 10, 2017
John Powers, “The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Nov 07, 2017
Bradley Camp Davis, “Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands” (U of Washington Press, 2017)
Jul 29, 2017
Eileen Le Han, “Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Jul 12, 2017
Edward Vickers, “Education and Society in Post-Mao China” (Routledge, 2017)
May 22, 2017
Dorothy Ko, “The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China” (U. of Washington Press, 2017)
May 18, 2017
Phoebe Chow, “Britain’s Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931” (Routledge, 2016)
Mar 07, 2017
Richard Jean So, “Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network” (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017
Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup, eds., “Recovering Buddhism in Modern China” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Dec 23, 2016
Ruth Rogaski, “Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China” (U. California Press, 2014 reprint)
Dec 07, 2016
Kristin Stapleton, “Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Oct 05, 2016
Ellen Widmer, “Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 21, 2016
David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jul 13, 2016
Miranda Brown, “The Art of Medicine in Early China: The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 05, 2016
Susan Turner Haynes, “Chinese Nuclear Proliferation: How Global Politics is Transforming China’s Weapons Buildup and Modernization” (Potomac Books, 2016)
Jul 01, 2016
Kirk A. Denton, “Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Jun 15, 2016
Mingwei Song, “Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2016)
Jun 03, 2016
Ho-fung Hung, “The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World” (Columbia UP, 2016)
May 18, 2016
Matthew H. Sommer, “Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China” (U of California Press, 2015)
May 04, 2016
Douglas Clark, “Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)” (Earnshaw Books, 2016)
Apr 11, 2016
Sigrid Schmalzer, “Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China” (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Apr 11, 2016
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo” (e-Penguin, 2016)
Apr 04, 2016
J. Brown and M. D. Johnson, eds., “Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Mar 07, 2016
Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi, “The Han: China’s Diverse Majority” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
Feb 16, 2016
Erica Fox Brindley, “Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Feb 03, 2016
Miao Li, “Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China: Pathways to the Urban Underclass” (Routledge, 2015)
Feb 03, 2016
Lisong Liu, “Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship” (Routledge, 2015)
Jan 29, 2016
James A. Benn, “Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Jan 04, 2016
Nanxiu Qian, “Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Dec 11, 2015
Peter van der Veer, “The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India” (Princeton UP, 2013
Dec 07, 2015
Linda Rui Feng, “City of Marvel and Transformation” (U of Hawai’i Press, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015
Joseph R. Dennis, “Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100-1700” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015)
Oct 18, 2015
Minghui Hu, “China’s Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
Sep 15, 2015
Anna M. Shields, “One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 04, 2015
Gordon H. Chang, “Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 30, 2015
Shellen Wu, “Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Aug 25, 2015
Andrew G. Walder, “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 14, 2015
Parks M. Coble, “China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 10, 2015
Carlos Rojas, “Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jul 08, 2015
Ruth Hayhoe, “China Through the Lens of Comparative Education: The Selected Works of Ruth Hayhoe” (Routledge. 2015)
Jun 14, 2015
Winnie Won Yin Wong, "Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
May 26, 2015
Winnie Won Yin Wong, “Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
May 26, 2015
Lu Zhang, “Inside China’s Automobile Factories” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
May 10, 2015
Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen, “Chang’an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
May 05, 2015
Stuart Young, “Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China” (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Apr 25, 2015
David A. Pietz, “Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Apr 06, 2015
Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Mar 15, 2015
Sarah M. Allen, “Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)
Mar 09, 2015
Kenneth M. Swope, “The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44” (Routledge, 2014)
Feb 11, 2015
Paola Iovene, “Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Jan 19, 2015
Peter Peverelli, “One Turbulent Year – China 1975” (Boekscout, 2013)
Dec 24, 2014
Peter Peverelli, "One Turbulent Year - China 1975" (Boekscout, 2013)
Dec 24, 2014
Ernest P. Young, “Ecclesiastical Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Dec 08, 2014
Michael Gibbs Hill, trans., Wang Hui, “China from Empire to Nation-State” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Nov 17, 2014
Kenneth Brashier, “Public Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)
Oct 29, 2014
Leslie Grant, “West Meets East: Best Practices from Expert Teachers in the United States and China” (ASCD, 2014)
Sep 14, 2014
Donovan Chau, “Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania” (NIP, 2014)
Jul 07, 2014
Craig Clunas, “Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
Jul 02, 2014
Wensheng Wang, “White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Jun 23, 2014
James Carter, “Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Jun 11, 2014
Stephen R. Platt, “Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War” (Vintage, 2012)
Jun 03, 2014
Robert A. Rhoads, et al., “China’s Rising Research Universities: A New Era of Global Ambition” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
May 31, 2014
Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, “The Religious Question in Modern China” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Apr 28, 2014
Michelle King, “Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Apr 26, 2014
Tobie Meyer-Fong, “What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in Nineteenth-Century Century China” (Stanford UP, 2013)
Apr 01, 2014
Benjamin A. Elman, “Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 09, 2014
Marc L. Moskowitz, “Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China” (University of California Press, 2013)
Mar 02, 2014
Emma Teng, “Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943” (University of California Press, 2013)
Feb 23, 2014
Michael J. Hathaway, “Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China” (University of California Press, 2013)
Dec 28, 2013
Timothy J. Brook, “Mr. Selden’s Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer” (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Nov 29, 2013
Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, “Ancient Central China” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Oct 19, 2013
Paul O’Connor, “Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China’s World City” (Hong Kong UP, 2012)
Sep 20, 2013
Jonathan Hay, “Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
Aug 19, 2013
John Osburg, “Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich” (Stanford UP, 2013)
Aug 09, 2013
Matthew W. Mosca, “From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China” (Stanford, 2013)
Jul 22, 2013
Erica Fox Brindley, “Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China” (SUNY Press, 2012)
Apr 16, 2013
Aminda M. Smith, “Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
Mar 19, 2013
Elizabeth J. Perry, “Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition” (University of California Press, 2012)
Mar 05, 2013
Gene Cooper, “The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: Red Fire” (Routledge, 2013)
Jan 10, 2013
Christopher Bush, “Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media” (Oxford UP, 2010)
Nov 13, 2012
Shih-Shan Susan Huang, “Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2012)
Oct 31, 2012
Christopher Nugent, “Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
Oct 13, 2012
Par Cassel, “Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Sep 13, 2012
Gregory Crouch, “China’s Wings” (Bantam Books, 2012)
Aug 30, 2012
Kenneth Brashier, “Ancestral Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Aug 17, 2012
Roel Sterckx, “Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Aug 11, 2012
Daniel Vukovich, “China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the P.R.C.” (Routledge, 2012)
Jul 17, 2012
Xiaofei Tian, “Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
May 23, 2012
Gail Hershatter, “The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past” (University of California Press, 2011)
May 23, 2012
Xiaofei Tian, "Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China" (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 23, 2012
Rowan K. Flad, “Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Apr 27, 2012
Rowan K. Flad, "Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China" (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Apr 27, 2012
Thomas Mullaney, “Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China” (University of California Press, 2011)
Apr 02, 2012
Timothy Brook, “The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Feb 24, 2012
Carol Benedict, “Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010” (University of California Press, 2011)
Feb 16, 2012
Erik Mueggler, “The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet” (University of California Press, 2011)
Feb 01, 2012
Marta Hanson, “Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China” (Routledge, 2011)
Jan 24, 2012
Yi-Li Wu’s book, “Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China” (University of California Press, 2010)
Nov 01, 2011
Dagmar Schaefer, “The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
May 31, 2011