Anthony Bale and I sat down at the National Humanities Center this week to talk about his wonderful new translation of Sir John Mandeville’s The Book of Marvels and Travels for New Books in History. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Book of Marvels and Travels: An Interview
I recently spoke with Susan Huang about her gorgeous new book on Daoist visual culture. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Picturing the True Form: An Interview
I had a great time talking with historian Pamela O. Long recently about her new book on artisan/practitioners and the “new sciences” in early modern Europe. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600: An Interview
I recently spoke with Carl Yamamoto about his new book on Buddhism, Lama Zhang, and twelfth-century Tibet. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Vision and Violence: An Interview
I recently spoke with Christopher Nugent about his excellent recent book on Tang poetry and its material history. It was great fun, and you can listen to it here. Continue reading Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: An Interview
I had the pleasure of talking with historian Catherine Jami recently about her new book on science and mathematics during Kangxi’s reign. This one will be of interest to both historians of science and scholars of Chinese history. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Emperor’s New Mathematics: An Interview
I recently spoke with Shawn Bender about his wonderful new book on taiko drumming. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Taiko Boom: An Interview
I recently spoke with historian and fiction writer Minsoo Kang about his recent work on automata and robots in the European imagination. You can find it here. Continue reading Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: An Interview
I recently spoke with Giusi Tamburello about her recent edited volume on emotions in East Asia. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia: An Interview
I spoke with Laura Stark this week about her great new book, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research. You can listen to it here. Continue reading Behind Closed Doors: An Interview
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