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The Comps
This podcast shares books I read weekly during my PhD comprehensive exams (comps). They are primarily about premodern Chinese history in the context of East Asia, material culture, colonialism, and imperialism.
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Episodes
Ep.6 Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. by Meng Zhang 07.12.2024 10:10
Zhang, Meng. Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Ep. 5 Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (by Yiwen Li). 22.11.2024 11:00
Yiwen Li, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) . Names of Japanese Monks mentioned: Ennin (円仁, 794-864) Enchin (円珍, 814-891) Chōnen (奝然, 938-1016) Jakushō (寂照, 962?-1034) Jōjin (成尋, 1011-1081) Names of Places: Hakata 博多 Dazaifu 太宰府; its collapse started from the Genpei War (...
Ep.4 The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World (Anne Gerritsen) and An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700 (Xiaolin Duan) 09.11.2024 11:06
1. Gerritsen, Anne. The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 2. Duan, Xiaolin. An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700 . Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. About the sound quality of this episode: The studio where I usually record my podcast now has...
Ep.3 Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade 31.10.2024 10:05
Rosenthal, Gregory. "Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade." In Beyond Hawai'i: Native Labor in the Pacific World , 16-47. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
Ep. 2 The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas Allsen 25.10.2024 14:00
Allsen, Thomas T. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
EP 1: the Golden Peaches of Samarkand 18.10.2024 7:38
Book information: Schafer, Edward H. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.
EP 0: About THE COMPS 17.10.2024 1:49
Every PhD student in North America undergoes the Comps at some moment, but I chose to turn it into a podcast.
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