Michelle King’s wonderful new book explores the intertwined histories of imperialism and infanticide, situating the histories of infant killing and abandonment in China within a broader account of these practices in western Europe and across Eurasia. You can listen to our recent conversation about it here. Continue reading Between Birth and Death: An Interview
Jamie Cohen-Cole and I recently spoke about his wonderful new book on the emergence of a discourse of creativity, interdisciplinarity, and the “open mind” in the context of Cold War American politics, education, and society. It’s a beautifully written and carefully argued study of the history of science, and you can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading The Open Mind: An Interview
Emma Teng’s wonderful new book explores the history of discourses about Eurasian identity and the lived experiences of Eurasian people in China, Hong Kong, and the US between 1842 and 1943. She generously made the time to talk with me about it recently, it was such a pleasure, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Eurasian: An Interview
Josh Fogel and spoke recently about his thoughtful new exploration of the transformations of an artifact as read through the transformations in the way that artifact has been understood historically. It’s a book about a very particular gold seal in the history of Japan, and simultaneously about much more, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C. E.: An Interview
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Dave Spafford about his great new book on the production of space (all kinds of space!) in late medieval Japan. It was great fun, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading A Sense of Place: An Interview
Today & tomorrow on The Recipes Project: a two-part experiment in translating Qing Manchu medical recipes into steamy melodrama. Pt. 1 is here, and Pt. 2 (where it gets all steamy all up in there) is here! For further installments in this ongoing project, see the Publications page of this site. Continue reading Translating Qing Recipes: An Experiment
I had the pleasure of talking with Andrea Goldman about her wonderful study of opera in late Qing Beijing. It’s a rich book full of nuanced readings of some great historical documents, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Opera and the City: An Interview
Last month, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Berkeley comparing the art of the DJ and that of the historian, and considering an example of what might result from putting the comparison into practice for the history of Qing science. The Berkeley CSTMS have posted a video of the talk online, and you can find it at the link below. http://cstms.berkeley.edu/current-events/last-night-an-historian-saved-my-life-science-sampling-and-the-art-of-the-dj/ Continue reading Last Night An Historian Saved My Life: A Recent Talk at Berkeley
Back in November, I was fortunate enough to join a panel of wonderful scholars, all of whom I deeply respect and admire, in the plenary session of the History of Science Society 2013 annual meeting in Boston. We were all talking, in different ways and using different media, about the importance of experimentation with the form of academic narratives about objects and the history of … Continue reading KUNGGUR kanggar!: A landscape of Manchu onomatopoeias
Timothy Brook’s beautifully written new book explores the secrets of a map in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University. I recently had the pleasure of talking with Tim about it for New Books in History, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading Mr. Selden’s Map of China: An Interview
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