I had the pleasure of speaking with Sally Smith Hughes recently about her book on the history of Genentech and the business of recombinant DNA technology. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Genentech: An Interview
Michael Ing and I recently spoke about his new book on the perils and possibilities of failure in early Chinese ritual texts. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism: An Interview
Daniela Bleichmar and I recently spoke about her beautiful new book on botany and the imaging of empire in the eighteenth-century Hispanic world. This is likely to be of interest to historians of science, of empire, and of art. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Visible Empire: An Interview
Cosima Bruno and I recently spoke about her new book on poetry, the practice and theory of translation, and Chinese writer Yang Lian. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Between the Lines: An Interview
Catherine Higgs and I recently spoke about her elegantly written book on colonialism, slavery, and the history of chocolate. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Chocolate Islands: An Interview
Chris Bush and I recently spoke about his tremendously thoughtful book on modernism, media theory, and Chinese writing. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Ideographic Modernism: An Interview
Jini Kim Watson and I recently spoke about her fascinating book on fictions of urban transformation in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The New Asian City: An Interview
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
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