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Hyuk YU Oral History Ep. 4 | With the US Army During the Korean War
Over a six-month period from October 2024 until March 2025, CEAS Associate Director David Fields had the incredible opportunity to record an extensive oral history with Hyuk YU, emeritus professor of…
Hyuk YU Oral History Ep. 3 | The Korean War in Incheon
Over a six-month period from October 2024 until March 2025, CEAS Associate Director David Fields had the incredible opportunity to record an extensive oral history with Hyuk YU, emeritus professor of…
Hyuk YU Oral History Ep. 2 | Liberation, Occupation, and Displacement
Over a six-month period from October 2024 until March 2025, CEAS Associate Director David Fields had the incredible opportunity to record an extensive oral history with Hyuk YU, emeritus professor of…
Hyuk YU Oral History Ep. 1 | Colonial Korea: Witnessing the End of an Era
Over a six-month period from October 2024 until March 2025, CEAS Associate Director David Fields had the incredible opportunity to record an extensive oral history with Hyuk YU, emeritus professor of…
David Rennie on Reporting on China and East Asia at The Economist
David Rennie, current geopolitics editor at The Economist, shared how he stumbled into journalism as well as stories that have stayed with him over 20 years of reporting during his return to…
Nick Lardy on Chinese Economics and U.S.-China Relations
Nick Lardy, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), offered a brief origin story of his entry into the field of Chinese Economics, which involved an…
John Fitzgerald on the History of Nationalism in China
John Fitzgerald, Senior Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra, discussed his professional journey and his work on the development of Chinese nationalism. His foray into this…
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez on the History of Abortion in Modern China
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, then Associate Professor of History at Missouri State University, joined David Fields, CEAS Associate Director, for a discussion on reproductive policies in the PRC. She…
Jean-François Di Meglio on China, the EU, and the US
In this episode, Jean-François di Meglio, the President of Asia Centre, discussed EU-China relations and his professional experiences in international finance with David Fields, CEAS Associate…
Kaiser Kuo on the Sinica Podcast and his journey as a China commentator
Kaiser Kuo, the host of the Sinica Podcast, sat down with CEAS's David Fields during his visit to the UW campus. He discussed how he became interested in the political climate surrounding US &…
Aaron Skabelund on Inglorious, Illegal Bastards
Professor Aaron Skabelund of Brigham Young University discusses his path to Japanese history through his love for reading and opportunities to live in Japan. During his time at Columbia he found an…
Brian Dott on How the Chile Pepper changed China
On this episode of the East Asia Now podcast, Professor Brian Dott of Whitman College discusses how he got into studying Chinese history through his father’s colleagues and how he decided to study…
Melissa Macauley on the 19th C. Expansion of Chinese in Southeast Asia
On this episode of the East Asia Now podcast, Professor Melissa Macauley of Northwestern University discusses her interest in Chinese history and its connection to Southeast Asian history. In her…
Brigid Vance on Dream Divination in the Ming Era
Lawrence University’s Professor Brigid Vance discusses her background that led to her studying the intellectual and socio-cultural history of Ming Dynasty China. Her current research focuses on the…
Matt Alt, "Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World"
In this episode CEAS Associate Director David Fields and Tokyo-based author Matt Alt discuss "fantasy delivery devices," the first karaoke machine and Alt's new book Pure Invention: How Japan Made…
Junko Habu On What Food Insecurity in Pre-Modern Japan Can Teach Us About Sustainability
In this episode CEAS Associate Director David Fields speaks with Junko Habu, professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. Habu discusses her interest in food security in Jomon…
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, "China Tomorrow: Democracy Or Dictatorship?"
This episode features a talk given by Jean-Pierre Cabestan on his recent book China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship? Cabestan is a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist University. This talk…
Toshihiro Nakayama, "How Japan Handled the ‘Trump Shock’ and learned to Live with it"
This episode features a talk given by Toshihiro Nakayama titled “"How Japan Handled the ‘Trump Shock’ and learned to Live with it: Understanding Japan-US Relations from a Japanese Perspective."…
TransAsia and the World is now East Asia Now
We are excited to announce that TransAsia and the World is transitioning to East Asia Now an outreach initiative of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. We look…
Justin Tse on Asian American Religion
Episode 15 - 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.
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