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Kerry Brown, a leading China scholar based in London, discusses the challenges of 2020 and the growing need to understand China and its history. Berkshire first published This Is China: The First 5,000 Years in 2010. Professor Brown has now updated the book in a second edition with a new chapter on recent developments.

Listen to the podcast to hear why are stories so important in understanding China, and how the chapter “China Today” might easily be called “Xi Jinping’s China.” As Brown explains, “If China is going to be more significant and prominent, which is almost certain, if we’re going to have arguments with China, we may as well know what we’re talking about.” In the book itself, he provides insightful answers to today’s questions about the world’s newest superpower and offers an engaging framework for understanding its meteoric rise.

Length: 22 minutes. Subscribe via RSS or iT

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In what one scholar called “the literary event of the decade,” on 2 January 2020, Princeton University Library opened up more than 1,100 letters that the Nobel-Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot wrote over the course of three decades to an American speech professor and amateur actress named Emily Hale.

The day became even more newsworthy when, later that morning, Harvard University released a letter that Eliot had written in 1960, denying he had ever been in love with Hale. Now scholars are delving into the trove of material, and reporting that the collection will forever change what the world has known about one of the 20th century’s greatest poets.

Length: 45 minutes. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

Sara Fitzgerald is the author of The Poet’s Girl, a novel based on the life of Emily Hale. Fitzgerald retired after a career that included 15 years as an editor and new media developer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Elly Peterson: ‘Mother’ of the Moderates, which was recognized as a Notable Book of 2012 by the Library of Michigan. Her next book is Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX, to be published by University of Michigan Press later this year. Learn more at www.sarafitzgerald.com.

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Christine Parkinson shares what she’s learned about pairing wine with Chinese food – not only Cantonese but other Chinese cuisines – and offers Bookworld listeners some new ideas about what to drink and how to learn about what wines work with different Chinese dishes. It’s no surprise that she has been called “one of the most creative wine buyers in the UK” by wine guru Jancis Robinson. A few highlights from the podcast: Why chardonnay, white rioja, and champagne (hurrah!) often work with Chinese dishes, what red wine is almost always a good fit, and how to hold your own wine and Chinese food tasting.

Length: 25 minutes. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

Christine Parkinson is head of wine for Hakkasan Group, the world-renowned restaurant group specializing in modern Cantonese cuisine, with locations in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the USA, and an advisor on the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Chinese Cuisines.  Back in 2001, Christine created the first wine list for Hakkasan, and she’s held weekly wine tastings since then.

Karen Christensen is the chief executive officer and founder of Berkshire Publishing Group and a writer specializing in sustainability and community with a focus on China. One of her recent projects was coediting Women and Leadership: History, Concepts, and Case Studies (A Berkshire Essential) with George R. Goethals and Crystal L. Hoyt of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.

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Edouard Cointreau bears a famous name from the world of French food and drink and has become deeply involved with China. In fact, he now spends part of the year in Shandong Province and hosts the World Cookbook Awards there. At the Beijing Book Fair, which takes place every August, he is the co-organizer of the Food and Wine Gallery, which includes a demonstration kitchen and a gourmet salon. Edouard talks about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese gastronomy and the importance Chinese people put on perceived health-giving qualities of what they eat. Symbolic or magical qualities matter, too, and he emphasizes that texture matters far more to a Chinese diner than mere taste or smell. We get a preview of what’s coming at the Beijing Book Fair this year. Berkshire’s Karen Christensen will be speaking about food publishing, and we’ll be posting interviews and videos from the show floor.

Length: 27 minutes.

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Edouard Cointreau

Born in the family of Cointreau liquor on his paternal side, Rémy Martin and Cognac Frapin on his maternal side, Edouard loves books as much as cuisine and wine. Although being a Parisian, he spent fifteen years in the U.S, lives now between Beijing and Madrid and is Chairman of Gourmand International, President of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, President of honour of China Food Television and President of the World Association of Food TV Producers.

Karen Christensen is the chief executive officer and founder of Berkshire Publishing Group and a writer specializing in sustainability and community with a focus on China. One of her recent projects was coediting Women and Leadership: History, Concepts, and Case Studies (A Berkshire Essential) with George R. Goethals and Crystal L. Hoyt of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.

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Joli Jensen introduces her tested methods for completing academic writing projects in spite of the distractions and pressures inherent in university life. These tips are fully explained in her book Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics, published by the University of Chicago Press, and this podcast provides a quick overview of the key methods – writing for 15 minutes every day, the Project Box, the Ventilation File. Joli also talks about traps like “One More Source,” and about how to tame your writing demons. Her suggestions will help you Write No Matter What!

Length: 30 minutes.

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Professor Joli Jensen has taught communications and media studies since 1985, and is the founder and director of the University of Tulsa’s Henneke Faculty Writing Program, where she offers academic writing support to colleagues in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Find her at JoliJensen.com and Chronicle Vitae.