New Books in East Asian Studies
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Daniel A. Bell, "The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Daniel A. Bell
Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
An interview with Garrett L. Washington
Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan, "Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader" (Springer, 2023)
An interview with Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
An interview with Peter Thilly
China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes
How has Chinas one-party system dealt with the countrys growing environmental issues? And what implications does its green turn have on peoples everyday realities? Virginie Arantes joinsPetra Alderman, associate researcher at NIAS and postdoctoral res
James M. Zimmerman, "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
An interview with James M. Zimmerman
Andrew Small, "No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West" (Melville House, 2022)
An interview with Andrew Small
Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
An interview with Jan Ke-Schutte
What Can China's Identity Politics Tell Us About Affirmative Action?
A Discussion with Yan Sun
Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)
An interview with Maura Dykstra