East Asian Studies Podcast: State Building in Cold War Asia

In this episode of East Asian Studies, Qingfei Yin discusses her new book, State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border (Cambridge University Press, 2024). This study presents a new approach to the highly volatile Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War, centering on the two modernising revolutionary powers’ competitive and collaborative state building on the borderlands and local responses to it.

This episode was produced by NYSEAN partner, the New Books Network.