Asian Review of Books Podcast Transcripts
New Books Network · 306 episodes with transcripts
The Asian Review of Books is the only dedicated pan-Asian book review publication.
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Latest Asian Review of Books transcripts
Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City with Michael Dillon (Yale UP, 2026)
October 15, 2026
SPEAKER_1 (0:00)
Hi, everyone, this is Marshall Poe. I'm the founder of the Newbix Network, and I'm also a historian. I used to be a history professor, and I love maps. So I'm especially happy to tell you that this episode is sponsored by What's Your Map, which was the winner of the Best Education podcast at the 2025 British Podcast…
Welcome to The New Books Network.
Nicholas Gordon (1:22)
Hello, I'm Nicholas Gordon, host of The Asian Review of Books podcast done in partnership with The New Books Network. In this podcast, we interview fiction and non-fiction authors working in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region. The Bund's grand facades and the leafy streets of the former French Concession are…
Michael's New Book follows the city from a small fishing town on the Huangpu River, a tributary of the Yangtze, through the Opium War and the treaty ports, the foreign concessions, the Japanese occupation, and the Communist takeover, to its place today as the most representative city of China's forward-looking…
Michael Dillon (3:12)
Well, it's been a long-standing interest, really. I started studying Chinese at Leeds University in the UK in the 1960s, which was the time of the Cultural Revolution, and I think we're going to come on to that later on. At the time, Shanghai was going through this great turmoil of what seemed to be a workers'…
There was always in the background an interest in what is going on. When I started going regularly to China in the early 1980s, from the early 1980s onwards, I visited Shanghai on a number of occasions and noticed all the changes. But then my interests divulged, and I went off to do various things on early modern…
- Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City with Michael Dillon (Yale UP, 2026)
- Tom Lin, "Babylon, South Dakota" (Little, Brown and Co, 2026)
- Eamonn Gearon, "The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain's Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit" (Hurst, 2026)
- Matthew Campbell, "The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy" (Penguin, 2026)
- Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New History from the Stone Age to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
- Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)
- Xiaobing Li, "China’s Mahan: Admiral Liu Huaqing and the Rise of the Modern Chinese Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2026)
- Charlotte Brooks, "The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution" (U California Press, 2026)
- Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)
- Homa Katouzian, "Iran and the Revolution: A History" (Yale UP, 2026)
- Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
- Jinwoo Park, "Oxford Soju Club" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
- Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Avner Greif et al., "Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000" (Princeton UP, 2025)
- Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
- Mahesh Rao, "Half Light" (Penguin Random House India, 2025)
- Olivier Hein, "Borneo: The History of an Enigma" (Hurst, 2026)
- Rian Thum, "Islamic China: An Asian History" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
- Yi-Ling Liu, "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet" (Knopf, 2026)
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