Cornell East Asia Program Conversations

Mari Yoshihara: Leonard Bernstein, the Rise of China in Classical Music, and the MeToo Movement

On September 14, 2020, Mari Yoshihara, American Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, gave a talk titled, "Dearest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of a World Maestro." "Dearest Lenny" traces the making of a global Bernstein amidst the shifting political economy of the arts and global politics that made this American celebrity turn increasingly to Europe and Japan. In this podcast, she is interviewed by EAP graduate student, Thomas Cressy.
 

CCCI: Jack Zinda CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION

Cancer villages, “airpocalypse,” extinctions, massive industrialization of agriculture. Equally massive solar and wind roll-out, reforestation, new national parks, hard penalties for pollution. China is the site of some of the world’s most vexing environmental problems and the source of energetic efforts to deal with them. CCCI director Robin McNeal discusses with Jack Zinda, spring 2020's faculty lead on the lecture series and teacher in the corresponding course overview.

CCCI: Anna Ahler GOVERNING THE AIRPOCALYPSE-INSIGHTS FROM CHINA'S 'WAR ON SMOG'

Governing the Airpocalypse–Insights from China’s ‘War on Smog’. Anna L. Ahlers–Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin explores her research process and background on the most hotly debated environmental problem in Chinese society: air pollution.

CCCI: Mindi Schneider CHINA'S PORK FIX

Is the fix in on the Pork Fix in China'? That's what our guest Mindi Schneider explores in this podcast regarding The Pork Fix: African Swine Fever and the Opportunity of Crisis in China’s Pork Industry. Professor Schneider is from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. 

CCCI: Michael Hathaway CHINA'S MUSHROOMS MUSHROOM THE ECONOMY

'Shrooms take Southwest China! Michael Hathaway of Simon Frasier University, British Columbia examines the booming matsutake mushroom trade in this talk titled, Transforming More-than-human Economies in Southwest China: The role of the Matsutake Mushroom. 

CCCI: Digital Money and Migrant Labor in China

Tom MacDonald, Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. spoke on “Social” Money and Working-class Subjectivities: Digital Money and Migrant Labor in Shenzhen, China as part of the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative. Here he talks with the CCCI Director, Robin McNeal to go into a little more depth and discuss his experiences doing fieldwork. Music by Kevin McLeod. 

CCCI: Beneath the China Boom - Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market

Faculty host, and CCCI director, Robin McNeal speaks with Julia Chuang about what's behind the economic boom in China and delves into her ethnographic work amongst migrant workers. Julia Chuang is a Professor of Sociology from Morrissey College at Boston College. Music by Kevin McLeod.

CCCI: Upwardly Mobile Women in Urban Women in China

Shifts in social class and status over the past twenty years in China have resulted in major shifts in society, especially for women.  The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative's director, Robin McNeal explores this and more with guest speaker, Ariane Gaetano, Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Women's Studies Program at Auburn University.  Music by Kevin McLeod. 

CCCI: Climate Change and Human Impact on the Environment in Ancient China

CCCI Director, Professor Robin McNeal sits down with TR Kidder to discuss Climate Change and human impact on the environment in ancient China. TR Kidder is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology and environmental studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Music by Kevin McLeod. 
 

Andrea Bachner introduces Evelyn Hu-deHart

Andrea Bachner, Director of the East Asia Program at Cornell University, introduced guest lecturer, Evelyn Hu-deHart, Professor of History, Brown University on October 23, 2019. Her talk was titled, "Spanish Manila:  A Transpacific Maritime Enterprise and First American Chinatown in the Ming Dynasty" and was co-hosted by the Society for the Humanities, and Latin American Studies Program (LASP).