Judd Kinzley Recorded an Interview with University of the Air

Judd Kinzley portraitProfessor Judd Kinzley recorded an interview on the history of US-China relations for University of the Air on Wisconsin Public Radio. University of the Air invites distinguished faculty guests from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to discuss topics in music, art, writing, theater, science, education, and history. During the interview, Professor Kinzley explains the ups and downs of US-China relations. Professor Kinzley is a historian of modern China with a particular interest in the ways that natural resources define and often limit state power in Chinese border regions. His book, Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands, offers a new material-centered perspective on the development of institutions of state power and authority in China’s far western province of Xinjiang.