Recent Podcasts

Funeral and Sacrifice in 186 BC: The Luozhuang Mausoleum, Shandong
A talk by GAO JIXI

When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Rise of a New Global Order
A talk by MARTIN JACQUES

The Buddhist Arts of Tea in Medieval China
James A. Benn delivers the 22nd Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art

Taiwan Culture in the New Millennium: A Conversation with Two Cultural Figures
A roundtable with screenwriter and novelist CHU TIEN-WEN, and novelist, poet, and naturalist LIU KE-SHIANG

An Interpretation of Wu (external things) in the Chinese Classical Literary Tradition
A talk by CHENG YU-YU (Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, delivered on October 8, 2009.

The Body, Solar Terms,and Lyrics: The Relationship Between Han and Wei Dynasty Literature, The Songs of Chu and Yue-ling
A talk by CHENG YU-YU (Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, delivered October 6, 2009.

Reconstructing the History of a Monastery: The Kaiyuansi of Ji'nan
A talk by GAO JIXI (Ji'nan Municipal Institute of Archaeology) delivered on October 1, 2009.

China and Taiwan: The Prospects for Cross-Straits Relations
A talk by HUNG-MAO TIEN, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

China and Global Imbalances: It's Not the Exchange Rate
A talk by CALLA WIEMER (Visiting Scholar, UCLA)

The Erosion of Paternalistic Democracy in Chinese Factories
A talk by JOEL ANDREAS (Johns Hopkins University)

Hearing the Future: Twenty Years of Listening to Popular Music in Taiwan
A talk by NANCY GUY (UC San Diego), in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies

The Alley-Level State: Residents and Neighborhood Organizations in Beijing and Taipei
A talk by BENJAMIN L. READ (UC Santa Cruz)

The Changing Pattern of Burial Construction in Early Imperial China
A talk by YANG ZHEFENG (Peking University)

Isotope Research on Ancient Chinese Diets
A talk by ZHANG XUELIAN

Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration in China
A talk (in Chinese) by BAI NANSHENG (Renmin University)

The Making of the Chinese Intellectual: Theory, Findings, and Hypotheses
A talk by EDDY U (UC Davis)

Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies - Introduction and the Traditional Approach Improved
A talk by Kuo-liang Yeh (Dean of National Taiwan University) on contemporary Classical Studies under the general title "Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies"

Religion and the Public Good in Taiwan
A talk by Robert P. Weller, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies

HIV/AIDS NGOs in China and Their Relationship with the Government
A talk by WAN YANHAI (founding director of the Beijing Aizhi Action Project)

More Podcasts »