From the Tale of Genjii to Godzilla, Kenzaburo Oe to Yoko Tawada …
Authors Rowan Williams & Christopher Harding and artist Gayle Chong Kwan join Rana Mitter.
Chris Harding investigates the flourishing of Japanese philosophy in the 1930s and beyond.
Historians Joya Chatterji and Tripurdaman Singh, plus the novels of Kamala Markandaya.
Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.
Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau.
From AI and fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA.
Frank Dikotter, Xiaolu Guo and Xinran discuss the Cultural Revolution with Rana Mitter.
From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.
Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.
Chris Harding dips into some of the darker sides of Japan's epic 20th century.
Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk to Anne McElvoy.
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.
Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 martial arts film made before Bruce Lee's death aged 32.
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet.
Gandhi's power, portable citizenship, Mehrotra's poetry. Rana Mitter with Amit Chaudhuri.
Histories of West Africa, 20th-century China, and the art of translation.
With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.
The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy.
Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.
Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.
Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta and Chandak Sengoopta and Rana Mitter discuss Ray.
Historian Tom Holland, critic Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, and artist Inci Eviner.
