East Asia for All Podcast
1) Episode 11: "Comfort Women" and Imperial Japan, an Interview with Dr. Lin Li about Grass
In this episode of East Asia for All, we examine the sexual slavery system that took place under imperial Japan from 1937-1945 through the graphic novel Grass by Korean author Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Gra...Show More
2) Gender Across the DMZ: Friend & Kim Jiyoung Born 1982
In this minisode, we compare literary representations of Korean women navigating very different social systems. In Friend, the 1988 novel by North Korean writer Paek Nam-Nyong, Judge Jeong Jin-wu atte...Show More
3) Sex Work and Political Subjectivity with Simanti Dasgupta: IIAS Guest Episode
This is a guest episode from The Channel, a podcast of the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University. This episode features a lecture from Simanti Dasgupta. Simanti is Assoc...Show More
Sex Work and Political Subjectivity with Simanti Dasgupta: IIAS Guest Episode
42:56 | Mar 6th, 2023
4) Cape No. 7 and Postcolonial Taiwan
Cape No. 7 (æ”·è§äžè, HÇijiÇo QÄ« HĂ o) by Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng (éćŸ·è, who also directed Warriors of the Rainbow) is a romantic comedy about two intercultural couples (Taiwanese and Japanese) in t...Show More
5) Confronting Anti-Asian Racism
We recorded this episode in response to the March 16, 2021 Atlanta Massacre. We discuss the importance of understanding and confronting the history of anti-Asian racism in the United States, as well a...Show More
6) Showa and Graphic Novels
Shigeru Mizuki's Showa is an epic four-volume graphic novel series about the Showa era of Japan (1926-1989) and a semi-biographical account of Mizuki's own life during that period. It's funny, heartbr...Show More
7) The Handmaiden and Colonial Korea
Park Chan-wook set his 2016 film The Handmaiden in Korea under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Colonial Korea proves to be the perfect setting for a romantic crime story that explores sexuality, d...Show More
8) The Three Body Problem
Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem is a wildly popular Chinese science fiction novel, and it's easy to see why. It opens during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, setting the tone for a multigenerationa...Show More
9) Hooligan Sparrow and Activism in China
"Principal, call me if you want to get a room. Leave the students alone." This was the sign that Ye Haiyan, a Chinese activist better known by the nickname Hooligan Sparrow, held up during her protest...Show More
10) Hero (2002) and Tianxia
Do you love wuxia (martial arts) films, Chinese history, Jet Li, the gorgeous 2002 film Hero, or all of the above? This is the mini-episode for you! We talk about Zhang Yimou's Hero, the historical na...Show More