New Books in East Asian Studies

New Books in East Asian Studies


Latest Episodes

On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations
July 31, 2024

A Discussion with SEAC Associate Qingfei Yin

Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
July 29, 2024

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascinating research on the history of mobility in Asia and how it looks different when we approach it as a his

Muslim Literacies in China
July 23, 2024

An interview with Ibrar Bhatt

Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
July 21, 2024

Yanagawa Seigan (17891858) and his wife Kran (180479) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetryworks written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importan