Ken Brashier’s wonderful new book, a must-read for scholars of Chinese studies, offers a history of identity and public memory in early China. We had a chance to talk about it for the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast, it was a lot of fun, and you can listen to the interview here.

(Ken and I also talked about his previous – and also awesome – book on ancestral memory in early China for the NBEAS podcast and you can find that earlier conversation here.)