New Books in East Asian Studies

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New Books in East Asian Studies

New Books in East Asian Studies

ፈጣሪ: Marshall Poe

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

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Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Queens without a Kingdom worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities is a fascinating study of nuns in the T...

2025-10-15 08:00:00 3934
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Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

What can a map do, beyond showing us where things are?

Michelle Wang's new book, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (U Chicag...

2025-10-14 08:00:00 3179
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Robert L. Worden and Jane Leung Larson, "A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911" (Brill, 2025)

Robert L. Worden and Jane Leung Larson, "A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911" (Brill, 2025)

A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911 is an encyclopaedic reference work docu...

2025-10-10 08:00:00 8043
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Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rif...

2025-10-06 08:00:00 2484
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Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

How and why did the Chinese Communist Party rise to power in the 1940s at the expense of its Nationalist (KMT) rival? In his new book, Domination and...

2025-10-05 08:00:00 3445
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M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)

M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)

Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Penguin Random House, 2025) is the second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable person...

2025-10-01 08:00:00 3222
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Todd A. Henry ed., "Queer Korea" (Duke UP, 2025)

Todd A. Henry ed., "Queer Korea" (Duke UP, 2025)

Edited by Todd A. Henry, Queer Korea (Duke UP, 2020) offers a vital and long-overdue examination of this subject. More than an academic text, it is a...

2025-09-27 08:00:00 2946
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Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originall...

2025-09-22 08:00:00 5980
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Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination,  1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth ofte...

2025-09-20 08:00:00 3461
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Christopher Joby, "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" (Brill, 2025)

Christopher Joby, "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" (Brill, 2025)

How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missiona...

2025-09-18 23:00:00 3647
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Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)

Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)

Partition—the rapid, uncoordinated, and bloody split between India and Pakistan after the Second World War—remains the central event of South Asian hi...

2025-09-03 23:00:00 3205
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Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)

We often think of censorship as governments removing material or harshly punishing people who spread or access information. But Margaret E. Roberts’ n...

2025-08-31 23:00:00 3055
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Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)

Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)

Maren A. Ehlers’s Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) examines the ways in which...

2025-08-30 23:00:00 4131
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Dan Wang, "Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future" (Norton, 2025)

Dan Wang, "Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future" (Norton, 2025)

Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab, and previously a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Before...

2025-08-25 23:00:00 3770
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Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022)

Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022)

Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps?

How have detainees experience...

2025-08-21 23:00:00 4084
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Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)

Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)

I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors wri...

2025-08-20 23:00:00 1778
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Chile’s Growing Interests in China

Chile’s Growing Interests in China

Chile holds the distinction of being the first South American nation to forge diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China, as well as the firs...

2025-08-18 23:00:00 1667
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Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)

Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholes...

2025-08-16 23:00:00 3110
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Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into e...

2025-08-08 23:00:00 2829
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Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)

Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproducti...

2025-08-07 23:00:00 4336
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Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

How did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorous...

2025-08-06 23:00:00 2943
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Professional Chat: Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains, with Bonny Ling

Professional Chat: Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains, with Bonny Ling

Better Innovations, to talk about Taiwan as a home for migrant workers, and decent work in supply chains. After a brief overview of key risks in this...

2025-08-05 23:00:00 2789
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Ronald C. Po, "Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Liverpool UP, 2024)

Ronald C. Po, "Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Liverpool UP, 2024)

Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Liverpool UP, 2024) offers a vivid look at China's dynamic and longstanding re...

2025-08-05 23:00:00 4546
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Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

In An Urban History of China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite...

2025-08-03 23:00:00 5478
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William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)

William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left h...

2025-08-02 23:00:00 3938
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Scott Pearce, "Northern Wei (386-534): A New Form of Empire in East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Scott Pearce, "Northern Wei (386-534): A New Form of Empire in East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands...

2025-07-29 23:00:00 4451
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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)

Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)

Hidden Heroes (Anthem Press, 2025) offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans through a collection of short stories b...

2025-07-28 23:00:00 2715
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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)

Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)

When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations. The oldest among us will talk...

2025-07-27 23:00:00 3967
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020...

2025-07-26 23:00:00 4231
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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twent...

2025-07-26 23:00:00 6192
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Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)

Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Yale University Press, 2022) by Dr. Christopher Marquis & Dr. Kunyuan Qiao presents a thor...

2025-07-25 23:00:00 2901
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Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao" (Pantheon, 2017)

Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao" (Pantheon, 2017)

Ian Johnson’s new book, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao (Pantheon, 2017),  was called "a masterpiece of observation and empathy"...

2025-07-25 23:00:00 4456
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Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over perc...

2025-07-20 19:00:00 4317
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Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)

Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)

Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life (NYU Press,...

2025-07-17 23:00:00 4114
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James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025),

James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025),

The Russians came late to Japan, arriving after the Portuguese and other European powers. But as soon as they arrived, Russia tried to use spies and e...

2025-07-16 23:00:00 2389
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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)

Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created b...

2025-07-15 23:00:00 1920
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Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)

Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)

How can art shape historical memory and national identity? And how can cultural heritage and historical references be used to enact a vision of a nati...

2025-07-14 23:00:00 3347
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Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)

Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)

Indonesia's judicial system has long been described as dysfunctional. Many of its problems developed out of decades of authoritarian rule, which began...

2025-07-14 23:00:00 2413
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Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks, "Global Asias: Tactics & Theories"  (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks, "Global Asias: Tactics & Theories" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship....

2025-07-10 23:00:00 4237
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Paul French, "Destination Macao" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Paul French, "Destination Macao" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Macau–onetime Portuguese colony, now casino hotspot–has long captured the imaginations of travelers, reporters, artists and writers. The city served a...

2025-07-09 23:00:00 3459
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