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Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.

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Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literar

What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what

On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram

Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia

Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man an

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen t

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transfo

Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic fo

Welcome to the latest episode of New Books in Chinese Studies! I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and

Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themse

People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolation

Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist rif

Environmental organising in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For

Humans have been so dominant on Earth in large part because of their capacity to innovate – but how

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of o

Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necess

The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted

I am talking today to Mingwei Song about his new book, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science

Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and