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In this episode, Jean-François di Meglio, the President of Asia Centre, discussed EU-China relations and his professional experiences in international finance with David Fields, CEAS Associate Director. Asia Centre is a Paris-based independent
Kaiser Kuo, the host of the Sinica Podcast, sat down with CEAS's David Fields during his visit to the UW campus. He discussed how he became interested in the political climate surrounding US & China relations, what drew him away from graduate s
Professor Aaron Skabelund of Brigham Young University discusses his path to Japanese history through his love for reading and opportunities to live in Japan. During his time at Columbia he found an interest in Japanese history, empire, and anim
Professor Maura Dykstra discusses her journey to become a historian of "boring things." Her research, however, is anything but boring. She delves into the world of Qing bureaucracy and how the systematic reports created a sense of decline in th
On this episode of the East Asia Now podcast, Professor Brian Dott of Whitman College discusses how he got into studying Chinese history through his father’s colleagues and how he decided to study the history of chile pepper in China. He discus
On this episode of the East Asia Now podcast, Professor Melissa Macauley of Northwestern University discusses her interest in Chinese history and its connection to Southeast Asian history. In her book, Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on Chi
Lawrence University’s Professor Brigid Vance discusses her background that led to her studying the intellectual and socio-cultural history of Ming Dynasty China. Her current research focuses on the legacy and cultural import of dreams and dream
In this episode CEAS Associate Director David Fields and Tokyo-based author Matt Alt discuss "fantasy delivery devices," the first karaoke machine and Alt's new book Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World.For more on Matt Alt and to
In this episode CEAS Associate Director David Fields speaks with Junko Habu, professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. Habu discusses her interest in food security in Jomon Japan and what lessons prehistoric societies
This episode features a talk given by Jean-Pierre Cabestan on his recent book China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship? Cabestan is a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist University. This talk was given in Madison in fall 2019.
This episode features a talk given by Toshihiro Nakayama titled “"How Japan Handled the ‘Trump Shock’ and learned to Live with it: Understanding Japan-US Relations from a Japanese Perspective." Nakayama is a prominent Japanese public intellectu
We are excited to announce that TransAsia and the World is transitioning to East Asia Now an outreach initiative of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. We look forward to continuing to bring you programming
Episode 15 - Justin Tse discusses the trans-Pacific lives of Cantonese Protestants, his approach to the study of Asian American history and religion, and the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement.
Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interview Joseph Ho about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photography. Learn about cultural encounters between Americans and China in the early twentieth cen
Episode 13 - Philip Cerepak and Galen Poor interview PhD candidate Kathleen Gutierrez of the University of California-Berkeley about the politics of nomenclature and binomial naming systems for plants in the Philippines during the early twentie
Episode 12 - Galen Poor and Aijie Shi interview Tom Mullaney, Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. He discusses how thinking about technology changes how we understand Asian and global history. Learn about grand narratives in th
Episode 11 - Galen Poor and Phillip Cerepak interview Lin Li, a PhD Candidate at UW-Madison. She discusses the politics of historical memory around Comfort Women in East Asia. Learn how the efforts of Comfort Women activists have always crossed
Episode 10 - Galen Poor and Joy Block interview Madihah Akhter, a Ph.D Candidate in History at Stanford University. Akhter shares a fascinating set of stories about the Begum of Bhopal, Shah Jahan - a powerful female sultan of one of India's pr
Episode 09 - Galen Poor & Joy Block interview Professor Sarah Mellors, Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University. Mellors discusses birth control in China during the Republican and early Communist eras. Learn how Chinese famil
Episode 08 - Our Gender series kicks off as Sam Timinsky interviews Ayako Kano, Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Their wide ranging discussion covers ge
Episode 7 - Joy Block and Galen Poor talk with William Noseworthy, Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. A specialist in Southeast Asian History, Noseworthy compares the political violence in Indonesia under Suharto and i
Episode 6 - Our series on Political Violence opens up our transnational perspective to consider how humanitarian organizations and political parties in Germany built strategies around reactions to leftwing violence in South America. These lefti
Episode 05 - Sam Timinsky and Joy Block talk with Alex Macartney, teaching fellow in Japanese & German History at Georgetown University. Also listen to excerpts of a talk he gave about two "Red Army" movements that helped define international L
Episode 04 - Sam Timinsky interviews William Marotti, associate professor at UCLA, about why non-governmental groups resort to political violence. Listen to today's conversation, as Marotti defines "political violence" and explains why politica
Episode 03a - On September 22, 2017, scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a roundtable discussion about what they called the “North Korea Crisis.” In the months previous, North Korea had reached several milestones in nuclear w
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