New Books in East Asian Studies
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Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
An interview with Kimberley Ens Manning
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
An interview with Kai Jun Chen
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
An interview with Emily H. C. Chua
A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father’s practice raises challengi
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
An interview with Huwy-min Lucia Liu
Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)
An interview with Fuchsia Dunlop
Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, "The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan" (NIAS, 2022)
An interview with Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
An interview with David Veevers
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Timothy Brook