The East Asian Studies Center embarked on a new collaboration with the Korea and the World (KATW) team to develop a series of podcast interviews in 2021-2022. Korea and the World is a podcast that interviews academics, professionals and intellectuals living and working in South Korea on current political, economic and societal issues. The first episode in the series is now available.

The inaugural episode focuses on China's role on the Korean Peninsula. Although China is unambiguously a key player on the Korean peninsula, its relations with North as well as South Korea are fraught with tension. The KATW team sat down with Professor John Delury to speak about China’s place in the world, its role in the region, and how the country and its behavior evolved under the leadership of Xi Jinping.

John Delury is Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies, in Seoul. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in History at Yale University. He wrote, together with Orville Schell, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, which was published in 2013. Professor Delury’s works have appeared in various publications including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Asian Survey.

Listeners can find the podcast on the KATW website, on iTunes, YouTube, or via RSS.

This episode was supported in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.