Japanese Culture
From the Tale of Genjii to Godzilla, Kenzaburo Oe to Yoko Tawada …
East/West religious connections
Authors Rowan Williams & Christopher Harding and artist Gayle Chong Kwan join Rana Mitter.
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The Kyoto School
Chris Harding investigates the flourishing of Japanese philosophy in the 1930s and beyond.
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South Asia: poverty and princes
Historians Joya Chatterji and Tripurdaman Singh, plus the novels of Kamala Markandaya.
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My Neighbour Totoro
Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
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The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.
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Translating cultures
Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau.
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China, Freud, War and Sci-Fi
From AI and fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
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China: World Politics, Ink Art and Insomnia
Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA.
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The Cultural Revolution
Frank Dikotter, Xiaolu Guo and Xinran discuss the Cultural Revolution with Rana Mitter.
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Lady Macbeth
From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.
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Modernism around the World
Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.
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Dark Blossoms—The Essay
Chris Harding dips into some of the darker sides of Japan's epic 20th century.
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Partition: Novelists' views of India and Pakistan now
Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk to Anne McElvoy.
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The Black Lizard—The Essay, Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.
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Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee
Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 martial arts film made before Bruce Lee's death aged 32.
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The Vietnam-Paris Connection
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet.
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Rethinking India's connections with the wider world.
Gandhi's power, portable citizenship, Mehrotra's poetry. Rana Mitter with Amit Chaudhuri.
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Africa, Babel, China
Histories of West Africa, 20th-century China, and the art of translation.
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Partition, colonial power and the voices of 16th-century women
With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.
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Japan and Nature
The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy.
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Rivers and geopolitics
Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.
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Homi K Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.
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Satyajit Ray's films
Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta and Chandak Sengoopta and Rana Mitter discuss Ray.
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East Meets West
Historian Tom Holland, critic Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, and artist Inci Eviner.
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