Gene Cooper and I talked recently about his new book on the “red fire” of market and temple fairs in eastern China. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: An Interview
Michel Gordin and I recently talked about his new book on Immanuel Velikovsky, the “first grand wizard of the Universal Order of Mass Pseudo-Scholarship,” and science at the margins in Cold War America. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Pseudo-Science Wars: An Interview
I recently spoke with with Sanjay Subrahmanyam about his new book on violence, intimacy, and images in the early modern Eurasian world. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Courtly Encounters: 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
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 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
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