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- Ep.6 Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. by Meng Zhang
Zhang, Meng. Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.
11 min - Ep. 5 Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (by Yiwen Li).
Yiwen Li, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403ce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Names of Japanese Monks mentioned:
- Ennin (円仁, 794-864)
- Enchin (円珍, 814-891)
- Chōnen (奝然, 938-1016)
- Jakushō (寂照, 962?-1034)
- Jōjin (成尋, 1011-1081)
Names of Places:
- Hakata 博多
- Dazaifu 太宰府; its collapse started from the Genpei War (源平合戦)
11 min - Ep.4 The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World (Anne Gerritsen) and An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700 (Xiaolin Duan)
1. Gerritsen, Anne. The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2. Duan, Xiaolin. An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700. Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022.
About the sound quality of this episode: The studio where I usually record my podcast now has some technical glitches, and this episode is recorded at home with headphones.
12 min - Ep.3 Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade
Rosenthal, Gregory. "Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade." In Beyond Hawai'i: Native Labor in the Pacific World, 16-47. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
11 min - Ep. 2 The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire, by Thomas Allsen
Allsen, Thomas T. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in
the Mongol Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.14 min - EP 1: the Golden Peaches of Samarkand
Book information:
Schafer, Edward H. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.
8 min - EP 0: About THE COMPS
Every PhD student in North America undergoes the Comps at some moment, but I chose to turn it into a podcast.
2 min
About The Comps
From the publisher's feed
This podcast shares books I read weekly during my PhD comprehensive exams (comps). They are primarily about premodern Chinese history in the context of East Asia, material culture, colonialism, and…
imperialism.