Inside Track | Interview with Dr. Heather Salter | Author of "The Shanghai Agents"
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[0:12] >> Welcome to Inside Track with Bruce Ash
[0:15] and Ed Wilkinson on the Live the Dream
[0:18] Media Network.
[0:20] >> All right, so any game prediction
[0:23] >> for the Wildcats versus the Cougars this
[0:25] Saturday?
[0:27] >> No, it's anybody's guess.
[0:30] Well, that's that's a safe that's a safe
[0:32] uh uh uhh prediction. All right. So much
[0:34] for sports prognostication. This this
[0:37] actually is not a sports show. Uh and
[0:39] let's go to the topic that you really do
[0:41] know a lot about. There's a lot to your
[0:43] story about the Shanghai agents. So,
[0:45] let's get right to it.
[0:47] I think this is your third book related
[0:49] to uh East and Southeast Asia if I if
[0:53] I'm
[0:54] >> um so how did modern Asian
[0:57] anti-colonialism
[0:58] become your specialty and what was the
[1:01] biggest surprise that you've learned
[1:03] unfolding and in and getting to know
[1:05] this topic.
[1:09] >> Okay, so two-part question. It it became
[1:11] my specialty. I I'm pretty sure that it
[1:14] became my specialty because I grew up in
[1:17] Jakarta, Indonesia. And um I saw a lot
[1:22] of things as a child there that I didn't
[1:25] quite understand. Um I saw a lot of
[1:28] expats, adults behaving in certain ways
[1:30] that um it didn't make any sense to me.
[1:34] But I had a real strong interest in the
[1:36] region because of my upbringing. and I,
[1:39] you know, was fluent in Bahasa,
[1:41] Indonesia, and then um just always had
[1:44] an affinity for Southeast Asia.
[1:46] >> Oh, that's fascinating. I I don't think
[1:48] I've e