Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of China studies to talk about their work and make some recommendations! You'll hear from a variety of scholars, from MA students to tenured professors, talking about a bewildering range of fascinating work they're doing. Enjoy!
3:00 – Kristin Shi-Kupfer — recommendations: this essay (in Chinese) by Teng Biao on Chinese Trump supporters; Han Rongbin's work on digital society; and Yang Guobin's work on digital expression on the internet in China.
7:48 – Lev Nachman — recommendation: Ian Rowen, One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism; and the city of Taichung, and especially its night market food on Yizhong Street and the Fang Chia Night market.
9:27 – Lin Zhang — recommendation: Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia; and Gary Gertle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the 20th Century
15:32 – Maura Dykstra — recommendation: Richard von Glahn's contribution to the Oxford History of Modern China about registration in imperial China
19:00 – Jonathan Elkobi — a Rand Corporation study on economic cooperation between Israel and China; the fusion band Snarky Puppy
22:22 – Seiji Shirane — Seediq Bale (Warriors of the Rainbow) and Lust, Caution
25:18 – Zhu Qian — Rebecca Karl, Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the 20th Century, and two films: Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness and Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin
31:23– Fabio Lanza — Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021; and Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital by Leopoldina Fortunati
33:04 – Catherine Tsai —:Hiroko Matsuda’s The Liminality of the Japanese Empire
34:46– Lena Kaufmann — Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China and other works by Francesca Bray
39:05 – Josh Freeman — Works of Uyghur poetry by Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed, Ekhmetjan Osman, Tahir Hamut Izgil, Perhat Tursun, Dilkhumar Imin, Abide Abbas Nesrin, Erkan Qadir, and Muyesser Abdul'ehed Hendan.
41:32 – Susan McCarthy — Joanna Handlin Smith, The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China
49:18 – Brian DeMare — William Hinton, Fanshen
50:47 – Juliet Lu — Maria Repnikova, Chinese Soft Power, and Samuel L. Jackson reading Adam Mansbach's Go the F--k to Sleep
58:29 – Sabina Knight — Wu Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes, translated by Darryl Sterk
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica podcast, the discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with the China Project. |
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| 0:22.8 | of the original writing on our website at theChinaproject.com. We've got reported stories, essays, and |
| 0:28.6 | editorials, great explainers and trackers, regular columns, and of course, a growing library of podcasts. |
| 0:36.3 | We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its |
| 0:38.9 | ingenious entrepreneurs, from the ongoing repression of leaders and other Muslim peoples in China's |
| 0:44.1 | Xinjiang region, to Beijing's ambitious plans to shift the Chinese economy onto a post-carbon |
| 0:50.2 | footing. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the |
| 0:56.1 | world. |
| 0:57.2 | We cover China with neither fear nor favor. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Kaiser Guo coming to you this week from Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:05.1 | Last month, I was lucky enough to attend the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies |
| 1:10.7 | AAS in Boston, which I try to get to |
| 1:14.2 | most years. This was actually my first time back since the pandemic. You can imagine that for |
| 1:19.3 | somebody like me who is very interested in a huge range of topics in Asian studies and |
| 1:27.2 | specifically Chinese studies, it was a target-rich |
| 1:30.9 | environment. Now, some years that I've gone, I have recorded shows there, but this time |
| 1:36.5 | I actually just brought a portable recorder and microphone and grabbed various scholars, |
| 1:41.4 | some of whom I had already known, some of whom I had just met or had been introduced to me, |
| 1:47.1 | or only knew through Twitter, and asked them to introduce themselves and to talk briefly about |
| 1:52.0 | their work. I also ask them to do Cynica-style recommendations. So if you listen to the 15 or so |
| 1:59.4 | capsule interviews that follow, it will give you a real sense |
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