Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
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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

A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com)

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