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Japan’s Empire through the Lens of Settler Colonialism in Latin America

Mar 16 2025
Author Sidney Xu Lu on challenging and complicating the story of Japanese migration to Brazil.
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How Taiwanese Vegetables Became the Envy of the World

Mar 15 2025
Author James Lin on the rural history that defined a generation of Taiwanese.
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Bringing Visibility to Vietnamese American Writers

Mar 12 2025
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.
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Q&A with Andrew Campana, author of "Expanding Verse"

Mar 11 2025
Author Andrew Campana discusses his book "Expanding Verses: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media"
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Interview with Yiman Wang, author of "To Be an Actress"

Mar 08 2025
Yiman Wang, author of "To Be an Actress," talks about the enduring legacy of actress Anna May Wong
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A Fascinating Case of Forgery

Feb 13 2025
The first in-depth look at the history and legacies of forgeries in Chinese art.
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Q&A with Andre Schmid, author of North Korea’s Mundane Revolution

Mar 28 2024
When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in
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