Justin Tse discusses the trans-Pacific lives of Cantonese Protestants, his approach to the study of Asian American history and religion, and the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement.
Episodes
Interview with Joseph Ho
Joseph Ho discusses the history of photography and film-making in early twentieth century China through the lens of American missionaries of various Christian denominations who served in the country.
Interview with Kathleen Gutierrez
Kathleen Gutierrez discusses the politics of nomenclature and binomial naming systems for plants in the Philippines during the early twentieth century.
Interview with Tom Mullaney
Professor Tom Mullaney discusses how thinking about technology changes how we understand Asian and global history. Learn about grand narratives in the history of science, the importance of studying low-impact inventions, and how systems of knowledge, practice and politics are embodied in everyday technologies.
Interview with Lin Li
Gender: The Transnational Redress Movement –
Join us, as Lin Li discusses the politics of historical memory around Comfort Women in East Asia. Learn how their efforts have always crossed national boundaries, flummoxing ideas like national tragedy and memory.
Interview with Madihah Akhter
Gender: The Muslim Matriarchies of India –
Join us, as Madihah Akhter shares fascinating stories about the Begum of Bhopal, a powerful female sultan of one of India’s princely states. As Indians across the British Empire imagined an independent India, the Begum offered a vision that prioritized Islamic femininity and princely power.
Interview with Sarah Mellors
Gender: Birth Control in China –
Join us, as Sarah Mellors discusses birth control in China during the early Communist era. Learn how Chinese families thought about and practiced birth control before the One-Child Policy.
Interview with Ayako Kano
Gender: The Largest Category of Human Experience –
Join us, as professor Ayako Kano discusses gender, family, labor, and the current Abe administration’s policies in Japan. Learn how activism and policy-making related to gender strike at the heart of a society’s culture and politics.
Interview with William Noseworthy
Political Violence: Comparing State-Sponsored Violence in Cambodia & Indonesia –
William Noseworthy compares the political violence in Indonesia under Suharto and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Although Cambodia’s communist-sponsored violence was quickly labeled “genocide,” both events pursued policies of genocide in their actions.
Interview with Felix Jiménez Botta
Political Violence: The Politics of Cold War Humanitarianism –
Felix Jiménez Botta discusses the connections between humanitarianism and political violence in Cold War relationships between South America and Germany.