East Asia Now

Episode 09 - Galen Poor & Joy Block interview Professor Sarah Mellors, Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University. Mellors discusses birth control in China during the Republican and early Communist eras. Learn how Chinese families thought about and practiced birth control before the One-Child Policy.

Episode 08 - Our Gender series kicks off as Sam Timinsky interviews Ayako Kano, Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Their wide ranging discussion covers gender, family, labor, and the current Abe administration's policies in Japan. Kano explains the ways in which gender penetrates nearly every aspect of an ind...

Episode 7 - Joy Block and Galen Poor talk with William Noseworthy, Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. A specialist in Southeast Asian History, Noseworthy compares the political violence in Indonesia under Suharto and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Noseworthy looks into how both events pursued policies of genocide. Whether directed against communists or non-communists o...

Episode 6 - Our series on Political Violence opens up our transnational perspective to consider how humanitarian organizations and political parties in Germany built strategies around reactions to leftwing violence in South America. These leftist groups sometimes associated with violent Maoism. In today's podcast Felix walks us through the complex relationship between political violence abroad and...

Episode 05 - Sam Timinsky and Joy Block talk with Alex Macartney, teaching fellow in Japanese & German History at Georgetown University. Also listen to excerpts of a talk he gave about two "Red Army" movements that helped define international Left-wing violence in the 1960s - one in Japan and the other in West Germany. Macartney discusses the logic that made both groups choose to practice politica...

Episode 04 - Sam Timinsky interviews William Marotti, associate professor at UCLA, about why non-governmental groups resort to political violence. Listen to today's conversation, as Marotti defines "political violence" and explains why political groups - such as the Japanese New Left in the late 1960s - used violence as a strategy of political protest and activism.

Episode 03a - On September 22, 2017, scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a roundtable discussion about what they called the “North Korea Crisis.” In the months previous, North Korea had reached several milestones in nuclear weapon development, and breakdowns in diplomacy between North Korea and the United States threatened war. The panel included Eunsook Jung (Political Science)...

Episode 03b - Joy Block and Galen Poor interview David Fields, deputy director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution who earned his PhD studying the division of Korea. Enjoy our conversation with him as we look back at the historical context of our North Korea moment and the significance of the past year of developments in North Korean affairs.

Episode 02 -Sam Timinsky interviews Viren Murthy, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A specialist in philosophy and politics of modern East Asia, Murthy studies how intellectuals dealt with transformations of the modern world, Buddhists and Marxists alike. From this intellectual history perspective, Murthy gives his answer to our question “What is transnational...

Episode 01 - Galen Poor and Evan Wells interview Shelly Chan, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A specialist in modern and global China, Chan’s work uncovers the history of Chinese emigres across the South China Sea. From her perspective on diaspora studies, Shelly Chan answers our question: “What is transnational history?”

Episode 00 - Join the founding TransAsiaPod editors – Sam Timinsky, Joy Block, Evan Wells, and Galen Poor – for a conversation about transnationalism and the importance of combining studies of Asian and world history. We’ll also introduce you to who we are and what you can expect from upcoming podcast episodes.