Best Ed Chen Podcasts (2023)

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Unlocking the Power of Leadership with Joy Chen 18:11

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Dive into the transformative world of leadership with Joy Chen, a seasoned leader in both the public and corporate sectors. This episode explores essential leadership skills, adaptability and ways to leverage your unique strengths to pursue career success. Ideal for aspiring leaders, HR professionals and anyone interested in personal development.…

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New Books in Art

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Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023) 58:51

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Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto (Yale UP, 2023) puts forward an account of contemporary art’s political ambitions and potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven art, socially engaged art, and ecological art, the book explores how artists have attempted to offer bold solutions to the world’s problems. Simoniti sy…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023) 1:29:30

4h ago1:29:30

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A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The H…

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Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023) 57:22

1d ago57:22

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Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks’ spell. But how di…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021) 1:01:03

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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2021) is a fascinating history of China's relations with the West--told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators. The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter wit…

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Immigration Today!

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34. Why are Migrants Being Dropped off in Buses? An Interview with ED of CHIRLA Angelica Salas 38:30

2d ago38:30

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Buses transporting asylum seekers have been arriving to Los Angeles for months. Non-profit organizations such as CHIRLA, ImmDef, CARECEN, Haitian Bridge Alliance among many others have quickly reacted and are attending to this emergency. On episode 34 of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Angelica Salas, the ED of The Coalition for Humane …

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New Books in Art

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Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 39:30

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Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes for customers around the world. In The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft (Bloomsbury, 2023), he introduces us to this world. The st…

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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

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2023.48 Macca in Mexico City 1:14:06

3d ago1:14:06

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Paul McCartney's "Got Back" tour hit Mexico City in mid-November 2023. This is Paul and the band's first visit to "Ciudad de Mexico" in six years. Despite being highly similar to the 2022 US version, a splendid time is still guaranteed for all, particularly with crowds like those we shared the evening with!…

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New Books in Art

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Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 45:21

4d ago45:21

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Should governments fund the arts? In The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Michael Rushton, Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and a Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, explores a variety of frameworks for thinking about this question, from…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023) 38:30

6d ago38:30

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Earlier this month, Toho Studios released “Godzilla Minus One”—the 37th film in the now almost seven-decade-old franchise. Godzilla has gone through many phases over the past 70 years: symbol of Japan’s nuclear fears, cuddly defender of humanity, Japanese cultural icon and, now, the centerpiece of another Hollywood cinematic universe. But it was 19…

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Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023) 1:03:43

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The common perception of Russia's status as a great power is often portrayed as being based largely on land power. Being the largest country in the world and fielding massively large field armies, there is some considerable truth to this perception. By contrast, when concerning Russian capabilities as a naval power, the picture is different. Common…

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Cultural Goggles with Joy Chen 3:43

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Navigate the complexities of leading diverse teams with Joy Chen, CEO of the Multicultural Leadership Institute. This episode focuses on the essential skills for multicultural leadership and adapting your perspective for effective communication. A must-listen for leaders in diverse organizations.By Strayer Studios

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Incentivize DEI with Joy Chen 3:03

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Transform your workplace with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Joy Chen discusses the importance of incentivizing DEI for innovation and equity. Ideal for HR professionals, business leaders and advocates for workplace diversity.By Strayer Studios

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Unleashing Your Unique Superpower to Find Career Success 2:35

8d ago2:35

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Discover your unique superpower and leverage it to support career success. In this episode we talk about how to identify your individual strengths and use them to shape a fulfilling career. Perfect for professionals at all stages, from entry-level to executive.By Strayer Studios

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The Results Driven Podcast

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Ep 90: Transforming Real Estate: Julie Trones' Service-Driven Success Story 29:08

9d ago29:08

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Join Ed Kaiser as he dives into the inspiring journey of Julie Trones, a renowned Realtor and Broker Associate, ranked in the top 1% for RE/MAX in MN, US & Globally, and representing sellers & buyers in Minneapolis, St Paul & Surrounding Suburbs. Julie's success isn't just about numbers; it's about her passion for serving clients and her unique app…

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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

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2023.47 Blue Album 2023 Review 1:04:58

10d ago1:04:58

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"Now and Then" was followed up by the sort-of 50th anniversary of "Red and Blue". This week we look at three albums of goodness from the folks at Universal Music. The blue album is very much a compilation in the traditional sense - a nice sampler for the Giles Martin post-2017 remixes. This week we consider the additions to the collection, other ch…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Harry Harootunian, "Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2023) 49:07

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In Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary (Duke UP, 2023) eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting …

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Chiwi Journal

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SPECIAL EPISODE: @ETHGlobal Istanbul Hackathon 20:46

11d ago20:46

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Kia Ora, Ni Hao, and Hello! Welcome to a special edition of the Chiwi Journal podcast, recorded live at the ETHGlobal Istanbul Hackathon. In this episode, I bring you exclusive interviews with the brilliant minds who won scholarships from the Take Off Web3 program and are building exciting projects here. Join me now to delve into their inspiring ve…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Sauna Culture in Japan 26:56

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In 2020, Finland’s sauna culture was added to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Sauna culture is an integral part of the lives of the majority of the Finnish population. Interestingly, the Finnish style of sauna-going has inspired quite a few i…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023) 1:59:01

14d ago1:59:01

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Kimberley Ens Manning's book The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China (Cornell UP, 2023) explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties—specifically family ties—played in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and af…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023) 1:05:52

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China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with journalists, editors, and executives at a newspaper in Guan…

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New Books in Art

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Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023) 1:07:17

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Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored porcelain production in Qing China through the work and career of the Manchu polymath Tang Ying (1682-1756). Viewing him as a technocrat — an official who combined technological specialization and manage…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023) 1:07:17

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Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored porcelain production in Qing China through the work and career of the Manchu polymath Tang Ying (1682-1756). Viewing him as a technocrat — an official who combined technological specialization and manage…

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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

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2023.46 Living the Beatles Legend - Ken Womack 1:13:45

17d ago1:13:45

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The hits just keep on coming! This week, friend of the show Doctor Kenneth Womack joins the show to discuss his just-released book "Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans." "Big Mal" has been both part of the Beatles story, and a figure in the background. What drove the "Gentle Giant", and what was it like to be the friend, confid…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung) 56:40

19d ago56:40

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Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father’s practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism.…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023) 2:32:38

20d ago2:32:38

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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" ci…

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New Books in Art

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Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023) 1:21:55

20d ago1:21:55

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W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purposes, it might be worth remembering what he meant. Auden’s line is importantly from a poem memorializing W.B. Yeats, a politician and a poet. Auden meant that despite Yeats’s poetry, “Ireland [still] has her madness and her weather still.” Yeats’s poet…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Wu Jieh-min, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022) 1:24:21

21d ago1:24:21

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Taiwan has been depicted as an island facing the incessant threat of forcible unification with the People’s Republic of China. Why, then, has Taiwan spent more than three decades pouring capital and talent into China? In Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard UP, 2022), Wu Jie…

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Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023) 57:34

22d ago57:34

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Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be higher. It follows that grappling with Russia’s imperial history is inescapable. After all, “[s]elective, exaggerated or patently false reimaginings” of the past “have been central to Russia’s justification…

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The Results Driven Podcast

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Ep 89: Network, Educate, Dominate: Yu Jie Chen's Path to the Top 25:58

22d ago25:58

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Yu Jie Chen built her career from the ground up as a RE/MAX Results real estate professional, and now, she's one of the top producers nationwide. Learn how she did it and get insider tips to grow your own business. 5 Must-Hear Moments: Going from stay-at-home mom to top real estate pro Transitioning from residential to commercial real estate Specia…

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New Books in Art

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Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 36:44

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Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, geography, game studies and play. Like paint on canvas, the game engine is taken as the underlying medium, and using the Valve Source Engine as the pri…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023) 1:02:20

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Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a…

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Ed Simon, "Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology" (Cernunnos, 2023) 39:49

24d ago39:49

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Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable--angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images: fat babies with wi…

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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

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2023.45 Now and Then 1:24:59

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I know it's true. There's a new Beatles song and video and short documentary out in the wild. Lonnie and I are joined by Kit O'Toole (Queen of all Beatles Media!), Tom Hunyady (one of the two legs) and Erika White (BC the Beatles), as we go through the single (does clear count as a color?), the song, the documentary, the video and the T-shirt.…

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New Books in Art

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Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 58:38

26d ago58:38

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Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This book offers both a broad diachronic perspective, reaching back to the earliest print artifacts that could be called “comic books,” and a deep synchronic view, touching on mainstream and alternative co…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023) 1:20:55

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The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the expanding British Empire frequently found itself frustrated by the power and tenacious resistance of the Indige…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, "The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan" (NIAS, 2022) 38:31

26d ago38:31

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The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan (NIAS Press, 2022) is an edited volume of ethnographic research organized around a cluster of key themes such as affective labor and the commodified performance of gender in contemporary Japan. Refreshingly, the chapters consist exclusively of the work of early-career schola…

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Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023) 1:01:50

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In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China (Princeton UP, 2023) provides an entirely new approach to the economi…

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New Books in Art

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"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF) 52:39

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Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Theater at Harvard, editor of more than one Norton Anthology, and author of many prizewinning books) from that fabulous RTB episode about his “deep history” of literature and literacy, The Written World. And you know his feelings about Wodehouse from his…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Akiko Takeyama, "Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry" (Stanford UP, 2023) 58:41

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In a world dominated by the notion of autonomy, free choice, and consent, Akiko Takeyama takes us on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of Japan's adult video industry in her groundbreaking book, Involuntary Consent The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry. With an ethereal blend of ethnography and critical analysis, Takeyama …

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Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) 38:57

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Is art education worthwhile? In The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Henrik Fürst, Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Stockholm University and Erik Nylander, Associate Professor in Education at Linköping University, explore this question using the case study…

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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

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2023.44 A Life in Lyrics podcast (review, overview, summary) 1:14:27

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Lonnie Pena and I go through the first four episodes of the Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon podcast "A Life in Lyrics". Paul goes through Eleanor Rigby, Back in the USSR, Let It Be, When Winter Comes and Mull of Kintyre. Old stories, new stories and you might even learn something!By Ed Chen and Jon Stone

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New Books in Art

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Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023) 41:01

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Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps (Brill, 2023) is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, histor…

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Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016) 53:02

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In Medievalist Comics and the American Century (UP of Mississippi, 2016), Chris Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy, but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow remains the continuation o…

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New Books in East Asian Studies

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Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:12:36

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I am talking today to Mingwei Song about his new book, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia UP, 2023). The book is a sweeping account of contemporary Chinese science fiction that begins by asking, has “anything new arrived with the new century that redefined contemporaneousness?” As listeners might guess, in Song’s account…

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Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) 1:13:32

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Simon Grennan's book A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) offers an original new conception of visual storytelling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause…

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New Books in Art

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Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023) 45:41

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Why study the arts in school? In Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (Routledge, 2023), Pat Thomson, Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham and Christine Hall, Emeritus Professor and former Head of Education at the University of Nottingham, examine this question by introducing findings from the Tracking Arts Le…

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Valerie Werder, "Thieves: A Novel" (Fence Books, 2023) 1:08:21

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Thieves (Fence Books, 2023) is an autofictional account of a gallery girl named Valerie – an art worker in the big city, a product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to value objects and their promise. The magic of being, thinking, speaking, and writing is all bound up for Valerie, a self-conscious creature, in the ways she…

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Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022) 1:15:37

1M ago1:15:37

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Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing…

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Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023) 56:50

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How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origins of today’s kaleidoscopic digital visual culture are many. In Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy (MIT Press, 2023), Diana Kamin traces the sharing o…

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