Кращі подкасти про East Asia (2024)

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Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023) 49:21

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In December 1948, a panel of 12 judges sentenced 23 Japanese officials for war crimes. Seven, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were sentenced to death. The sentencing ended the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, an over-two-year-long trial over Imperial Japan’s atrocities in China and its decision to attack the U.S. But u…

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2024.05.27 伊朗總統萊希墜機死亡不會有波瀾 13:12

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城揚建設新推出的「陽明第一廳」緊鄰三民區的明星學府-陽明國中 46~52坪，每層四戶兩部電梯最適合有換屋與置產需求的你讓生活中充滿書香、運動風，滿足食衣住行的消費需求城揚建設陽明第一廳 07-384-2888 https://bit.ly/3y7SoFB －－－－以上訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－伊朗軍方調查總統萊希（Ebrahim Raisi）搭乘直升機墜毀身亡的事件後，初步報告顯示，截至目前為止沒有發現謀殺或攻擊的證據。路透社報導，萊希曾被視為伊朗最高領袖哈米尼（Ayatollah Ali Khamenei）的可能接班人，他搭乘的直升機5月19日遭遇惡劣天氣而墜毀在國內西北部山區，萊希因此遇難身亡，享壽63歲。伊朗武裝部隊參謀總部發布報告指出：「直升機…

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Thersa Matsuura, "The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth" (Adams Media, 2024) 30:36

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Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth (…

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Yi-Han Lin, "Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise" (HarperVia, 2024) 40:30

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In this episode, Jenna Tang shares with us her translation of Lin Yi-Han's Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel (HarperVia, 2024), one of the most iconic works of Taiwan's #MeToo movement. Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tightknit community of strict yet doting parents and privi…

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Kazushi Minami, "People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024) 1:10:03

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In People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2024), Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers i…

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Rebecca Copeland, "Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers" (Amsterdam UP, 2023) 44:39

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The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (MHM Limited and Amsterdam University Press, 2022) offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late 19th century to the early 21st. Featuring 24 newly written contributions from scholars in the field—representing expertise from North America, Europe, Japan, and A…

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Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024) 36:39

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In December 1937, Bernhard Sindberg arrives at a cement factory outside of Nanjing. He’s one of just two foreigners, and he gets there just weeks before the Japanese invade and commit the now infamous atrocities in the Chinese city. As the writer Peter Harmsen notes, Bernhard’s background isn’t particularly compelling: He’s bounced from job to job,…

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Benjamin Brose, "Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim" (U Hawaii Press, 2023) 1:05:06

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Xuanzang (600/602–664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Xuanzang’s life and legacy are …

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Christine Abigail L. Tan, "Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzhi" (SUNY Press, 2024) 52:10

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Christine Tan argues that the most fruitful way to read the Zhuangzi, if one is seeking political and ethical insight, is through the Jin Dynasty commentator Guo Xiang. In Freedom’s Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi (SUNY Press, 2024), she lays out her reasoning for this position, offering her interpreta…

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Jennifer Liu, "Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 1:10:00

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Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960 (U Hawaii Press, 2024) examines how the Guomindang (GMD or Nationalists) sought to maintain control of middle-school students and cultivate their political loyalty over the trajectory of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, and postwar Taiwan. D…

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En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023) 38:47

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During the Qing dynasty in China, a wide variety of people participated in a lottery game named weixing (“surname guessing”), which had participants placing bets on the surnames of civil service examination candidates. A fiercely competitive process, those who passed the various levels of the civil service and military examinations could climb the …

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Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:08:02

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During the Republican period (1912–1949) and after, many Chinese Buddhists sought inspiration from non-Chinese Buddhist traditions, showing a particular interest in esoteric teachings. What made these Buddhists dissatisfied with Chinese Buddhism, and what did they think other Buddhist traditions could offer? Which elements did they choose to follow…

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Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024) 1:02:35

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South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilisation: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy (University of Michigan Press, 2024) by Dr. Joan E. Cho takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea’s advance to democra…

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Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024) 1:19:56

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For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China ended two decades of Cold War isolation, China’s trade relations veered in a very different direction. In Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard Universit…

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Jennifer Dorothy Lee, "Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985" (U California Press, 2024) 1:23:09

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Today I had the great pleasure of talking to Associate Professor Jennifer Dorothy Lee on her new book, Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985 (U California Press, 2024). Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. …

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Ban Wang, "At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China" (Duke UP, 2022) 51:46

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In his latest book At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China (Duke UP, 2022), Ban Wang uses an ecocritical lens to examine anthropocentrism, technoscientific hubris, and ecologically destructive modes of production in modern China. Analyzing modern discourse, literature, film, and science fiction, Wang asserts that …

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Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023) 52:09

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Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel (Cornell UP, 2023) uses the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu Zhuan) to examine the world of print in early modern China. Scott W. Gregory traces the way this beloved novel about outlaw heroes, honor, corruption, and brotherhood was adapted and changed by differe…

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South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections 23:23

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How do election campaigns in South Korea look like? Why have satellite parties become an important instrument of power politics? What do the election results mean for the Yoon government’s ability to implement its policy agenda? In April 2024, South Koreans went to the polls to elect a new parliament but many regarded the elections also as a refere…

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Ian Johnson, "Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:06:17

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Even as most contemporary states look to history in order to legitimize their existence in some way or other, the past – and narrations of it – hold particular weight in China. This is not a new phenomenon, for which pasts to elevate and which to suppress has long been a concern for both intellectuals and those seeking to rule the states and empire…

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Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 43:54

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China’s rise to global prominence is a pretty good contender for the most important world development in the past 30 years. But now the question is how Beijing managed to be successful on the international stage–let alone how large that success is—with fierce debates between hawks and doves in the West and elsewhere. Jeremy Garlick tries to offer a…

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Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022) 44:37

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Rakugo is a live performance art that has penetrated the borders of Japan and continues to gain popularity overseas. The rakugo stage once dominated by Japanese raconteurs now features foreign storytellers, as well as Japanese performers, both amateur and professional, who endeavor to entertain us in English. The only requirements for rakugo storyt…

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Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 1:06:50

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Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism (U Chicago Press, 2019), Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhi…

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Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein 1:02:18

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Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Justin B. Stein, a specialist in modern Japanese religion and the preeminent historian of Reiki. We discuss Justin’s new book, Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific (U Hawaii Press, 2023), about the transnational origins of Reiki, and also get into his perspective as a both …

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Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023) 1:08:50

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If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across the figure of the “shrew,” a morally threatening woman who is either transgressive and polluting, promiscuous, or violent (or perhaps a combination of all three). Scholars of literature typically write about how this archetype faded out after 1911, while the figure…

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Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:03:13

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In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xiongnu empire, which controlled the Eastern Eurasian steppe from ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. Through a close analysis of both material artifacts and textual sources, Miller centers the nomadic perspective, s…

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Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023) 42:21

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Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the U.S. (Rutgers University Press, 2023) examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese dia…

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Andre Schmid, "North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965" (U California Press, 2024) 1:11:04

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Histories of North Korea typically focus on one man — Kim Il Sung — and one narrative — his grand rise to absolute power. Andre Schmid’s new book, North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965 (University of California Press, 2024), tells a much more complex and richly textured story. Moving away from the…

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2024.04.29 印度移交超高音速布拉莫斯反艦飛彈給菲律賓之意涵 15:02

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蘇育平觀點：印度移交超高音速布拉莫斯反艦飛彈給菲律賓之意涵蘇育平 + 追蹤 2024-04-25 07:10 6110 人氣贊助本文筆者提醒，台灣也無須因為菲律賓與中國對抗，就以為菲律賓是我們的盟友了。（示意圖，張曜麟攝）根據印度媒體2024年4月19日報導，印度空軍C-17全球霸主運輸機運送印度交貨給菲律賓訂購之第一批布拉莫斯（BrahMos）超音速巡弋飛彈到菲國，這筆交易價值3億7500萬美元，2022年1月印度宣布這筆交易時，可以說是印度第一筆大額軍火出口交易。 [啟動LINE推播] 每日重大新聞通知菲律賓訂購3個營的布拉莫斯飛彈，合約也包括訓練操作的菲律賓海軍人員，及必要的零件供應。布拉莫斯飛彈最高速度2.8馬赫，射程290公里，發射平台為潛艦、水面艦艇、飛機或陸基發射平…

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Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023) 50:23

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A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits (Nightboat Books, 2023) adopts a non-linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can be read as a c…

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2024.04.26 中國神舟18號太空飛船發射前往天宮太空站輪班 22:36

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2024.04.26 中國神舟18號太空飛船發射前往天宮太空站輪班 https://forum.ettoday.net/news/2726984 2024年04月26日 13:02 蘇育平／神舟18號發射成功　台灣別錯失參與太空產業機會我們想讓你知道… 未來SpaceX要啟動大規模移民火星行動時，台灣大可以爭取供應商角色，許多商機大有可為，台灣一定不能錯失這個機會了。 ▲ 搭載神舟18號載人太空船的長征二號F遙18運載火箭25日在酒泉衛星發射中心點火發射。（圖／視覺中國CFP） ●** 蘇育平／國際政治觀察者** 中國航天局於2024年4月25日從酒泉發射中心發射中國第七次天宮太空站長期載人飛行任務——神舟18 號載人飛船。乘組人員由葉光富指揮官、任務操作員李廣蘇與工程師李聰組成。本次發…

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Philipp Demgenski, "Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City" (U Michigan Press, 2024) 1:20:29

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In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the …

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2024.04.21 中國戰略支援部隊解體，航天系統部更名軍事航天部隊 26:27

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2024.04.21 中國戰略支援部隊解體，航天系統部更名軍事航天部隊中國解放軍戰略支援部隊遭清洗後之改組在經過漫長地針對「火箭軍」與解放軍「戰略支援部隊」的大規模內部清洗後，最新消息，2024年4月19日中共中央軍委撤銷解放軍「戰略支援部隊」編制。原先「戰略支援部隊」下轄之「航天系統部」改名為「軍事航天部隊」，其他部分則因應解放軍實際需求而成立「信息支援部隊」、「網路空間部隊」、「聯勤保障部隊」。中國解放軍自此成為擁有陸軍、海軍、空軍、火箭軍等四個「軍種」，以及「軍事航天部隊」、「信息支援部隊」、「網路空間部隊」、「聯勤保障部隊」等四個「兵種」的新軍兵種結構組成。火箭軍中國國防武裝的目標首先要維繫共產黨執政政權永不改變，再來就是要抵禦外來威脅。尤其是1949年建國以後，來自美國…

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Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022) 1:07:25

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In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…

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Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:11:28

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Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan (Columbia UP, 2023) explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and …

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Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 51:09

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Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour has become a milestone in Chinese economic history. Historians and commentators credit Deng’s visit to Guangzhou Province for reinvigorating China’s market reforms in the years following 1989—leading to the Chinese economic powerhouse we see today. Journalist Jonathan Chatwin follows Deng’s journey in The Southern…

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Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023) 36:07

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Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Cathy Yue Wang's Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy (Wayne State Univer…

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Astrid Møller-Olsen, "Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction" (Cambria, 2022) 42:19

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Through an original framework of literary sensory studies, Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction (Cambria, 2022) provides a comparative analysis of how six contemporary works of Sinophone fiction reimagine the links between the self and the city, the past and the present, as well as the physical and the imaginary. It exp…

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Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:03:08

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Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the rich and ribald world of kibyōshi, a short-lived (1778-1807) subgenre of books combining text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga today. This book presents a selection o…

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2024.04.14 本週國際新聞導覽-伊朗出手打擊以色列報復 25:21

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2024.04.14 本週國際新聞導覽-伊朗出手打擊以色列報復 4/13 晚間，伊朗從本土對以色列發射200枚無人機、彈道飛彈與巡曳飛彈。大部分受到英國美國與約旦戰機與防空系統攔截，僅少數攻擊到以色列。伊朗已經表示到此為止的意思，已經攻擊，伊朗人民也上街慶祝，對之前被以色列攻擊死傷的軍民也有交代了，可以到此為止。但以色列揚言將再反擊。以色列總理那唐雅胡也致電美國總統拜登，雖然兩人其實根本很討厭對方，但這是一個政治動作，誰都得要做。此外對於伊朗什葉派宗教與領袖制度進行一番介紹，內容出自幾年前寫的一篇文章。蘇育平／教宗在伊拉克宗教大和解關鍵　伊拉克沒內爆全因「他」！ https://forum.ettoday.net/news/1938398 我們想讓你知道…希斯塔尼完全不與伊朗什葉派…

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2024.04.13 中國火箭軍建軍史與使用武器配備-擷取自蘇育平撰中國航天事業與火箭軍一書 30:40

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2024.04.13 中國火箭軍建軍史與使用武器配備-擷取自蘇育平撰中國航天事業與火箭軍一書解放軍火箭軍是除了陸、海、空三軍外的第四軍種，由中央軍委直接領導下命，負責地對地常規彈頭與核彈頭之彈道飛彈發射攻擊任務。 1966年到2015年間，原稱為陸軍二炮（第二炮兵）部隊，於2015年升格為火箭軍，取名借鑑蘇聯時期之「戰略火箭軍」名稱。 1958年，蘇聯贈送的第一枚R-2彈道飛彈抵中國，中國開始仿製生產，做出東風-1型短程彈道飛彈。1966年，解放軍導彈部隊陸軍「第二炮兵」由當時國務院總理周恩來命名並成立，後隨著擁有的彈道飛彈增加而擴大編制。時至今日，火箭軍約有15萬兵員，以約40個導彈旅之編制分布中國各地，擁有各款射程長短不一的彈道飛彈與巡弋飛彈（中國稱巡航導彈）。據統計短程飛彈有1,1…

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Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:24:26

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China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953 (Oxford UP, 2023), Xiaofei Kang moves the two themes to the center stage in the Chinese Revolution. It examines the Communist Party’s first anti-superstition ca…

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Psychedelics, Mysticism, Aliens, and the Dao (Pierce Salguero and Dominic Steavu) 1:07:17

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Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dominic Steavu, a historian of Chinese religion and healing from UC Santa Barbara. We discuss the central role of the body in medieval Daoist practices, and talk about the Daoist use of psychedelics to facilitate mystical experiences. Along the way, we touch on talismanic tattoos, internal alchemy, and embodied non…

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2024.04.07 各國宇宙活動檢討-外空非軍事化、利益共享、火箭回收、自由民主陣營發展太空科技-擷取自蘇育平撰中國航天事業與火箭軍一書 36:09

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2024.04.07 各國宇宙活動檢討-外空非軍事化、利益共享、火箭回收、自由民主陣營發展太空科技-擷取自蘇育平撰中國航天事業與火箭軍一書總結人類太空歷史人類在太空的活動與日俱增，已經到了前所未有的密集程度，現在幾乎每個月都有美國、中國或少數其他國家的火箭發射到太空。首先是成千上萬的衛星佈滿地球近地軌道或太陽同步軌道，彼此之間可能造成碰撞。第二，從地球表面以望遠鏡觀測星空時，很可能被天幕中滿滿的人造衛星干擾，因為數量真的不可計數。第三，太多火箭屢次發射會戳破電離層，導致過量太陽輻射或宇宙粒子入侵地表。同時，火箭箭身墜向地球時，在大氣層中燃燒殆盡而造成汙染。還有，太過密集的太空活動是否會引來地外文明的注意，並認定人類是一種威脅，進而前來消滅人類文明? 許多事情都是無法回頭的，既然已經選擇投…

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Andres Rodriguez, "Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919-45" (U British Columbia Press, 2022) 1:04:19

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In 1911, as China was beset with challenges, a new generation of scholars considered a new problem: what to do with former imperial borders? How could China’s frontiers be considered part of the new nation? In Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands 1919–45 (UBC Press, 2022), Andres Rodriguez looks at how students, travellers, …

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Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024) 38:02

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Glynne Walley, translator of classic Japanese novel Hakkenden, joins us on the podcast again to talk about his second translated volume: Hakkenden, Part 2: His Master’s Blade (Cornell East Asia Series: 2024). Unlike Part 1—which is all preamble!—in Part 2 we meet some of the fabled eight dog warriors and the Confucian virtues they represent: Shino,…

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Paul Hansen, "Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan" (SUNY Press, 2024) 49:08

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As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan (SUNY Press, 2024) offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. The book b…

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2024.03.31 中國的神舟載人飛船、天舟貨運飛船、天宮太空站-擷取自蘇育平撰中國航天事業與火箭軍一書 28:30

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2021年4月29日，重達22.5噸的「天和核心艙段」被長征-5B（遙2）運載火箭給推上太空，成功進入預定軌道並展開太陽能翼。一個月後，天舟-2號貨運飛船也在2021年5月29日發射成功，並過來與天和核心艙完成順利對接連結，補充物資與燃料等。代表天和核心段運作正常，可接受補給。再隔半個月，2021年6月17日，神舟-12號載人飛船由長征-2F遙12火箭從酒泉發射中心發射，並在6個半小時後過來與天和核心艙完成對接連結，神舟-12號的3名太空人聶海勝、劉伯明、湯洪波進入天和核心艙，等於是在太空中，第一次有人進入了天宮太空站。從此開始了神舟太空人在天宮太空站輪流值勤駐守的任務。「天和核心艙」是今日天宮太空站的主體大廳，是天宮太空站的管理控制中心，也是太空人生活工作的地方。它的全長是16.6公…

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Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023) 55:13

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Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. In The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2023) Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this te…

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Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:43:19

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The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information…

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Chia-ling Yang, "Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:21:18

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The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial China. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book questions the extent to which historical relics have been used to represent the ethnic identity of modern Chinese art. In doin…

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