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Asian Review of Books
Interviews with authors of books reviewed in the Asian Review of Books.
May 9, 2024
Advantage China
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 ho…
May 2, 2024
Not Your China Doll
In 2022, the U.S. Mint released the first batch of its American Women Quarters series, celebrating the achievements of U.S. women throughout its histo…
April 25, 2024
The Great Flap of 1942
In April 1942, at least half a million people fled the city of Madras, now known as Chennai. The reason? The British, after weeks of growing unease ab…
April 18, 2024
The Southern Tour
Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour has become a milestone in Chinese economic history. Historians and commentators credit Deng’s visit to Guangzhou Pr…
April 11, 2024
The Loom of Time
The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—parts of the world, as countless headlines make clear.…
April 4, 2024
Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden
Glynne Walley, translator of classic Japanese novel Hakkenden, joins us on the podcast again to talk about his second translated volume: Hakkenden, Pa…
March 28, 2024
The Great Defiance
It’s very easy to study the history of the British Empire from the perspective of, well, the British–and to extend the early 20th century version of t…
March 21, 2024
Black Ghosts
Just a decade ago, before COVID upended everything, tens of thousands of migrants from African countries traveled to China in search of economic oppor…
March 14, 2024
The Kings of Algiers
On July 27th, 1827, the dey of Algiers struck the French consul over his country’s refusal to pay back its debts–specifically, to two Jewish merchant …
March 7, 2024
Naomi Osaka
In July 2021, Naomi Osaka—world number 1 women’s tennis player—lit the Olympic Cauldron at the Tokyo Olympic Games. The half-Japanese, half-American, …
March 1, 2024
Shadow Empires
Empires are one of the most common forms of political structure in history—yet no empire is alike. We have our “standard” view of empire: perhaps the …
February 22, 2024
Koume's World
In 1864, on a midsummer’s day, Kawai Koume, a 60-year old matriarch of a samurai family in Wakayama, makes a note in her diary, which she had dutifull…
February 15, 2024
The First Asians in the Americas
There’s a popular folk hero in Puebla, Mexico—Catarina de San Juan, who Mexicans hailed as a devoted religious figure after her death in 1688. She’s c…
February 8, 2024
Into Siberia
It’s perhaps one of history’s funny accidents that relations between the U.S. and Russia were changed not by one, but two, George Kennans. Decades bef…
February 1, 2024
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
The East India Company was a unique entity in world history: More than just a commercial enterprise, the Company tried to act as its own government. N…
January 25, 2024
Rome and Persia
For almost seven centuries, two powers dominated the region we now call the Middle East: Rome and Persia. From the west: The Roman Republic, later the…
January 18, 2024
Eternal Summer of My Homeland
The opening story of Eternal Summer of My Homeland (Epigram Book, 2023) the debut story collection from Singaporean author Agnes Chew, is about grief.…
January 11, 2024
The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao
In December 1992, Hindu nationalists seize the Babri Masjid mosque and tear it down, proclaiming their wish to build a Hindu temple in its stead. The …
January 4, 2024
The Price of Collapse
Ming China in 1642 had suffered a series of disasters. Floods, and then drought had destroyed successive rice crops, sending the price of grain to as…
December 28, 2023
Murder in Manchuria
On an August night in 1933 Harbin in then-Japanese controlled Manchuria–Semyon Kaspe, French citizen, famed concert musician, and Russian Jew, is abdu…