Latest China news Podcast Episodes
Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience"
Sinica Podcast - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Iza Ding, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, joins to share her ideas on how American academia has framed and problematized authoritarianism...
The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS
Sinica Podcast - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome Dá Wēi (达巍), one of China’s foremost scholars of China’s foreign relations and especially relations with the U.S. Da Wei is the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and is a...
Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem?
Sinica Podcast - April 11, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, a discussion of Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem (or more accurately, Remembrance of Earth's Past). Joining me to chat about the big-budget show is Cindy Yu, host of The Spectator’s “Chinese Whispers” podcast, one of the very best China-fo...
Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently?
Sinica Podcast - April 03, 2024 14:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica: I wandered the halls at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle and talked to 14 participants and asked them all the same question: What has become clear to you about our field recently? The fantastic diversity of areas of inquiry and of perspectives...
Back to the Future: David M. Lampton and Thomas Fingar on What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Sinica Podcast - March 27, 2024 14:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, I speak with veteran China analysts Thomas Fingar and David M. Lampton — Mike Lampton — about a paper they published in the Winter 2024 edition of the Washington Quarterly. It's an excellent overview of how and why the bilateral relationship took such a bad turn rou...
Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power
Sinica Podcast - March 21, 2024 14:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, a show taped in Salzburg, Austria, at the Salzburg Global Seminar with Kerry Brown of King's College, London, on the prolific author's latest book, China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One. 05:22 – Chinese worldview and hist...
Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria
Sinica Podcast - March 14, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsHistorian Rana Mitter joins Sinica this week in a show taped live in Salzburg, Austria at the Salzburg Global Seminar, in which he discusses efforts by Party ideologists to create a Confucian-Marxist synthesis that can serve as an enduring foundation for a modern Chinese worldview in th...
Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners
Sinica Podcast - March 07, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, the winners of the 2023 Schwarzman Capstone Showcase. Two individuals and one team were selected as the best research projects after review of their projects and presentation of their findings. Their work is first-rate — and if you don’t factor in the very young age...
The Ukrainian Factor in China's Strategy: a roundtable
Sinica Podcast - February 29, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, a special taping of an online event I moderated on February 22, just two days shy of the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The session was titled “The Ukrainian Factor in China’s Strategy,” and it was organized by the U...
Peter Hessler, live at Duke University's Nasher Museum
Sinica Podcast - February 22, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica I'm delighted to bring you a live conversation with writer Peter Hessler, recorded at Duke University's Nasher Auditorium in Durham, North Carolina on November 10, 2023. The event was sponsored by the Duke Middle East Studies Center and the Asian Pacific Studies Inst...
This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912
Sinica Podcast - February 16, 2024 15:25 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsSinica is proud to present historian James Carter's column "This Week in China's History," one of the most popular offerings from the late great China Project. I'm delighted to be able to bring this back and to narrate it. You can expect a new column every other week, and we'll be publi...
Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn
Sinica Podcast - February 15, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsSinica is back, and on this first post-China Project show, Kaiser chats with TCP’s ex-editor-in-chief and Sinica’s co-founder and former co-host, Jeremy Goldkorn. They chat about the Beijing that was, their theories as to why things changed as they did, and share some of their favorite ...
Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander
Sinica Podcast - November 09, 2023 18:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, a live recording from New York on the eve of the 2023 NEXTChina Conference. Jeremy Goldkorn joins Kaiser as co-host, with guests Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University, who specializes in Chinese soft power in Africa and on Sino-Russian relations, and Eric Olan...
[The China Project] China launches its youngest-ever astronauts into space
China Stories - November 08, 2023 23:52 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsThree new astronauts are heading to China’s Tiangong space station, which is about to get even bigger in the coming years. Click here to read the article by Nadya Yeh. Narrated by Yingyun Zhang. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...
[Caixin Global] The struggle facing big-box supermarkets in China
China Stories - November 08, 2023 01:24 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsCarrefour’s shrinking presence is emblematic of broader gloom that has befallen the country’s supermarket operators that are competing with e-commerce platforms and smaller stores. Click here to read the article by Ding Yi and Sun Yanran. Narrated by Sarah Kutulakos. See Privacy Poli...
[The China Project] Toddler mauling in China prompts crackdown on dogs, rekindles debate over pet etiquette
China Stories - November 03, 2023 21:05 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn the aftermath of an off-leash Rottweiler’s attack of a two-year-old in China last week, officials in several counties have enacted sweeping measures against stray dogs. Click here to read the article by Zhao Yuanyuan. Narrated by Elyse Ribbons. See Privacy Policy at https://art19....
[The World of Chinese] How did ancient Chinese advertise?
China Stories - November 03, 2023 21:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsSlogans, music, celebrities, and rhymes all helped ancient Chinese advertise their wares for sale. Click here to read the article by Sun Jiahui. Narrated by Cliff Larsen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
[The World of Chinese] Bitter no more: How young Chinese became obsessed with TCM
China Stories - October 31, 2023 20:54 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsForget bubble tea, traditional Chinese medicine is the latest trend among youth. Click here to read the article by Shao Yefan. Narrated by Cliff Larsen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. ...
[The China Project] How China is attempting to change nature conservation
China Stories - October 27, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsChina is undergoing a great experiment — tightly controlled and driven by big data — that it hopes will offer an alternative way of protecting the planet. For all our sakes, let’s hope it works. Click here to read the article by Kyle Obermann. Narrated by Anthony Tao. See Privacy Pol...
[Caixin Global] Chinese in the crosshairs of ‘mushrooming’ transnational cybercrime
China Stories - October 27, 2023 20:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsUN says hundreds of thousands have been forced into participating in unlawful online scam operations in Myanmar and Cambodia, many of them Chinese. Click here to read the article by Qin Jianhang and Han Wei. Narrated by Cliff Larsen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...
In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022
Sinica Podcast - October 26, 2023 15:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we're running an interview with Jeffrey Bader from early last year. We learned on Monday morning that Jeff had died, and we dedicate this interview to his memory. ___ This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeff Bader, who served as senior director for Asian affair...
[The China Project] Los Angeles Chinatown, 1871: The forgotten mass lynching
China Stories - October 25, 2023 16:43 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn October 1871, 10% of the Chinese population in Los Angeles was wiped out in a senseless spasm of violence. Click here to read the article by James Carter. Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
[The World of Chinese] Acrobats, tai chi, kids: What makes a Chinese opening ceremony?
China Stories - October 24, 2023 22:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsFrom celebrations of workers at the 1959 National Games to vast displays of technological prowess during this year’s Asian Games, China’s opening ceremonies have evolved dramatically over time. Click here to read the article by Dylan Levi King. Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Pol...
[The World of Chinese] Community Canteens For Seniors Take Off Among Chinese Youth
China Stories - October 24, 2023 20:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsYoung people turn to government-funded community canteens for seniors in China amid food safety scandals and the rising cost of meals. Click here to read the article by Yang Tingting. Narrated by Kim Dalrymple. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...
[The China Project] A young Deng Xiaoping in France
China Stories - October 23, 2023 19:31 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn the early years of the Chinese republic, progressives looked west for political inspiration. This was how Deng Xiaoping — who would eventually lead China — came to be in France in the 1920s. He and his peers did indeed find inspiration abroad — just not the kind that his bourgeois sp...
[The World of Chinese] Prepared to fail: Cafeterias and restaurants face backlash for pre-made meals
China Stories - October 20, 2023 20:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsA school canteen scandal has Chinese consumers rethinking their growing demand for pre-prepared and ready-to-eat meals. Click here to read the article by Tan Yunfei. Narrated by Cliff Larsen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art...
[Rest of World] Why thousands of young Chinese people use a pink dinosaur as their alias
China Stories - October 20, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsUsers adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment, and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu. Click here to read the article by Caiwei Chen. Narrated by Elyse Ribbons. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...
Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?
Sinica Podcast - October 19, 2023 11:28 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, a live recording from October 10 in Chicago, Kaiser asks Chang-Tai Hsieh of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Damien Ma of the Paulson Institute’s think tank MacroPolo, and our own Lizzi Lee, host of The Signal with Lizzi Lee, to right-size ...
[The World of Chinese] Will ChatGPT really kill the Chinese translation industry?
China Stories - October 17, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsFour translators and interpreters talk about the impact new technologies like generative AI are having on their work and future career prospects. Click here to read the article by Roman Kierst and Sam Davies. Narrated by Anthony Tao. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...
[Caixin Global] China struggles to wean itself off bear bile farming
China Stories - October 17, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAmid growing concerns about the suffering that extraction causes the animals, the government has supported research into synthetic substitutes, but regulations are hampering the registration of alternatives to what some have dubbed ‘medicinal gold.’ Click here to read the article by Ya...