Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently?
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica: I wandered the halls at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle and talked to 14 participants and asked them all the same question: What has become clear to you about our field recently? The fantastic diversity of areas of inquiry and of perspectives was really energizing. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
02:25 Michael Davidson from UC San Diego on working towards climate change goals
04:22 Timothy Cheek from University of British Columbia on the importance of continuing to study China despite political tensions
06:51 Chen Zifeng from LSE on Chinese propaganda that surrounds everyday life
11:08 Clyde Yicheng Wang (Wang Yicheng) from Washington and Lee University on Chinese propaganda and its spread into social media
16:57 Jeff Wasserstrom from UC Irvine on connections between events in China and the world
18:26 Ian Johnson from CFR on researching China from afar and the importance of online databases
21:01 Daniel Leese from the University of Freiburg on the work of digitizing Chinese sources
24:06 Tyler Harlan from Loyola Marymount University on opportunities for cooperation in the environmental field
25:41 Abby Newman from the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies on the importance of spaces for conversation within the field
27:55 Sophie Loy-Wilson from the University of Sydney on studying violence and war in Asia with more sympathy
33:45 Joe Dennis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the changes he has witnessed in Chinese studies at the university level
36:49 Ed Pulford from the University of Manchester on China’s differing perspective on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
39:49 Emily Matson from Georgetown University on the importance of Marxist and Mao thought in analyzing modern Chinese history and World War II
42:14 Jan Berris from the National Committee on United States-China Relations on redirecting the U.S. government’s focus
Recommendation: The musical, poetic, and comedic work of Elle Cordova (formerly Reina Del Cid), on TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook; and the Led Zeppelin tribute band "Presence," fronted by singer Tamar Boursalian. (Alas, the band, which is new, has no online presence. See them if you're in Seattle!)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica Podcast, the weekly discussion of current affairs in China. |
| 0:13.7 | In this program, we'll look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural |
| 0:20.5 | trends that can help us better understand |
| 0:22.7 | what's happening in China's politics, foreign relations, economics, and society. |
| 0:28.8 | Join me each week for in-depth conversations that shed more light and bring less heat to the |
| 0:35.0 | way we think and talk about China. |
| 0:38.3 | Cynica is supported this year by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University |
| 0:43.3 | of Wisconsin-Madison, a National Resource Center for the Study of East Asia. |
| 0:48.3 | The Cynica podcast will remain free, but if you work for an organization that believes in what I'm doing with the podcast, |
| 0:54.9 | please consider lending your support. You can get me at CinecaPod at gmail.com. |
| 1:02.2 | And listeners, please support my work on Substack at Cinnica.substack.com. There you will find, |
| 1:14.0 | in addition to the podcast, the complete transcript of the show, |
| 1:21.2 | a weekly essay from me, and now a wide range of offerings, James Carter's This Week in China's history, Paul French's Ultimate China Bookshelf, Andrew Methven's Chinese Phrase of the Week, |
| 1:28.6 | the You Can Learn Chinese podcast, and the outstanding China Global South podcast, as well as a weekly essay |
| 1:34.6 | from the brilliant and very deeply informed folks at the China Global South Project. |
| 1:40.7 | I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you this week from Seattle, Washington. |
| 1:45.8 | Several years ago, I was asked to speak at a small event, |
| 1:50.1 | a gathering of people who were advisory board members for a small investment fund, |
| 1:55.7 | and the convener had a question that he likes to put to people in situations like that or even at parties, |
| 2:03.1 | where he simply asks them, what is something that has become clear to you recently? |
| 2:08.9 | So I decided to take that same idea and to put that question to people that I ran into at AAS, |
| 2:16.5 | at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle |
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