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Recent Guests

Ming-sho Ho

Sociologist based in Taiwan; author of Be Water, Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests

Taiwan; Author, Temple University Press

Episode: Ming-sho Ho, "Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests" (Temple University Press, 2025)

Emeka Umejei

Senior Research Associate, Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg

University of Johannesburg

Episode: Emeka Umejei, "China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Gavin Healy

Author of A Guide to Mao's China, Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests

Cornell University Press

Episode: Gavin Healy, "A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Emily Matson

Author, researcher, and historian

University of Michigan Press; Georgetown University

Episode: Emily Matson, "China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

Scott Forbes Crawford

Author of the book on the Han-Xiongnu War

Author, The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC to 89 AD

Episode: Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War

Nancy Yunhwa Rao

Author of Inside Chinese Theater, Community and Artistry in 19th Century California and Beyond

University of Illinois Press

Episode: Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth Century California and Beyond" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

Corrado Neri

Professor at Leon 3 University in Chinese Studies, based in Taipei

Centre for Study of Contemporary China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; Leon 3 University

Episode: Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)

Catherine Chan

Author of Savage, The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong

Cornell University Press

Episode: Catherine S. Chan, "Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Yuri Pines

Author of China's Aristocratic Age, Politics and Power in the Springs and Autumns Period

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Episode: Yuri Pines, "China's Aristocratic Age: Politics and Power in the Springs-and-Autumns Period" (Princeton UP, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher

Host affiliated with New Books Network; frequently guides conversations with authors across Chinese studies, history, and related fields.

Nicholas Gordon

Host with focus on Asian Review of Books and related New Books Network collaborations; coordinates episodes featuring scholarly authors.

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Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War

Q: Could you explain the strategic significance of the Hexi Corridor?

The Hexi Corridor was the gateway to the West, an inland route through which the Han could project power and control trade routes, shaping access to Tarim Basin civilizations and the broader Silk Road network.

Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War

Q: So what's the full title of your book?

The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC to 89 AD, The Struggle of China and the Steppe Empire, told through its key figures.

Catherine S. Chan, "Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Q: Could you start us off, please, by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book? What kinds of interventions did you want to make?

I am Kath Chan, a social and urban historian, and Savage grew from my PhD and my passion for dogs. I wanted to challenge the common, human-centered narratives of modernization by showing how animal lives—dogs in particular—reveal overlooked aspects of race, class, and colonial power in British Hong Kong, and to argue that what counts as progress often comes at a significant cost to non-human others.

Gavin Healy, "A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Q: So how did you come to work on the history of China and why the history of this period in particular?

Healy describes his academic path from law to history, his move to Hong Kong and Columbia, and his growing interest in the PRC period as a way to explore how networks of communication and tourism shaped state narratives and cultural exchange.

Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)

Q: Could you discuss the idea of Taiwan as a ghost nation and how ghosts function in thinking about Taiwan's history and identity?

He explains that ghosts become productive, resistant figures that reveal how Taiwan has been imagined by others and by itself; ghosts can narrate resistance and plural identities, reframing historical memory through cultural production and reinterpretation.

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