Ranked #1
Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)
Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)
Jonathan Fulton's China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2018) sheds light on China’s increasing economi... Read more
17 Jan 2019
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #2
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China" (Verso, 2018)
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China" (Verso, 2018)
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to ... Read more
12 Apr 2019
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50mins
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Ranked #3
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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In her original and thought-provoking book Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anne A. Cheng illustrates the ... Read more
22 May 2019
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Ranked #4
Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap" (Cornell UP, 2016)
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I spoke with Dr Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She pu... Read more
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Ranked #5
Bradley Camp Davis, “Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands” (U of Washington Press, 2017)
Bradley Camp Davis, “Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands” (U of Washington Press, 2017)
Recent years have seen an upsurge in studies asking questions about, and in, borderlands. The topic is certainly not new... Read more
29 Jul 2017
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Ranked #6
Bongrae Seok, “Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame: Shame of Shamelessness” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Bongrae Seok, “Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame: Shame of Shamelessness” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Shame is a complex social emotion that has a particularly negative valence; in the West it is associated with failure, i... Read more
15 Jun 2017
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #7
Roy Bing Chan, “The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature” (U. Washington Press, 2017)
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Roy Bing Chan‘s new book explores twentieth-century Chinese literature that emphasizes sleeping and dreaming as a way to... Read more
4 May 2017
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #8
Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
A beloved Japanese anime move released in 1988, My Neighbor Totoro tells the story of two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, as t... Read more
26 Mar 2020
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56mins
Ranked #9
Ji-Young Lee, “China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Ji-Young Lee, “China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Ji-Young Lee’s book investigates the changing nature of tribute relations during the Ming and High Qing between a domina... Read more
3 May 2018
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35mins
Ranked #10
Michael Szonyi, “The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Michael Szonyi, “The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China” (Princeton UP, 2017)
At the heart of Michael Szonyi’s new book are two questions: 1) How did ordinary people in the Ming deal with their obli... Read more
13 Sep 2018
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #11
Justin M. Jacobs, Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Justin M. Jacobs, Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Justin M. Jacob‘s new book proposes that we understand modern China as a national empire, and traces the strategies of d... Read more
9 Dec 2016
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #12
Suk-Young Kim, "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Given its expanding multimedia presence in Asia and around the world for many years now, K-pop is a phenomenon that is h... Read more
13 Mar 2019
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Ranked #13
J. Brown and M. D. Johnson, eds., “Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism” (Harvard UP, 2015)
J. Brown and M. D. Johnson, eds., “Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson‘s new edited volume offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Mao Zedong era ... Read more
7 Mar 2016
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #14
Thomas Mullaney, “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” (MIT Press, 2017)
Thomas Mullaney, “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” (MIT Press, 2017)
Tom Mullaney’s new book The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017) provides a fascinating first look at the dev... Read more
9 Jan 2018
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2hr 17mins
Ranked #15
David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Bringing together secondary and primary sources in a wide range of languages, David Brophy’s new book is a masterful stu... Read more
13 Jul 2016
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #16
Levi McLaughlin, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Levi McLaughlin, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Being Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization, Soka Gakkai (Society for the Creation of Value) a... Read more
26 Aug 2019
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48mins
Ranked #17
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Paul A. Christensen‘s new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urba... Read more
19 Aug 2015
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #18
Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Rebgong, in the Northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau (China’s Qinghai Province), is in the midst of a ‘Battle for Fo... Read more
10 Feb 2020
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1hr 27mins
Ranked #19
Timothy Cheek, “The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Timothy Cheek, “The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
In the preface to his new book, Timothy Cheek calls out a widespread tendency to focus on dissidents when engaging with ... Read more
2 May 2017
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #20
Beverly Bossler, ed., “Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
Beverly Bossler, ed., “Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
Beverly Bossler‘s wonderful new edited volume is a must-read for anyone interested in histories of and with gender in Ch... Read more
18 Apr 2016
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48mins
