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The worldview of Wang Huning, the Party's leading theoretician
Sinica Podcast - November 04, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we present a deep-dive into the worldview of China’s leading Party theorist, Wáng Hùníng 王沪宁. Wang — the only member of the Politburo Standing Committee who has not run a province or provincial-level municipality — is believed to have been the thinker behind idea...
Bonus Episode: Introducing the China Sports Insider Podcast
Sinica Podcast - November 04, 2021 21:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsA warm Sinica welcome to our newest network member, the China Sports Insider Podcast! If it's about sports and there's a China angle, our hosts Mark Dreyer — the China Sports Insider himself — and Haig Balian, the show's producer, will talk about it. This week: fewer than a hundred d...
It's Complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China
Sinica Podcast - October 28, 2021 21:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we present a talk delivered on October 19 by Kaiser at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, as part of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations China Town Hall. In this 30-minute speech, Kaiser offers his views on Xí Jìnpíng's 习近平 "Red New Deal," discu...
Did tariffs make a difference in Trump’s trade war?
Sinica Podcast - October 21, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica: Did the Trump-era tariffs have their intended effects? In other words, did they prompt companies to pull up stakes in China and re-shore jobs to the United States? Kaiser chats with two political scientists, Samantha Vortherms of UC Irvine and Jack Zhang, director o...
How Taiwan propelled China’s economic rise, with Shelley Rigger
Sinica Podcast - October 14, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Shelley Rigger, Brown professor of political science at Davidson College and author of the new book The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise. Shelley recounts Taiwan’s rise as an export-led powerhouse and one of the ...
Can China meet its ambitious emissions targets?
Sinica Podcast - October 07, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Michael Davidson, a leading scholar on China’s environmental policy, who holds joint appointments at UC San Diego as an assistant professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Jacobs School of Engineering. Michael unpacks recent ann...
How the Chinese state handles labor unrest, with Manfred Elfstrom
Sinica Podcast - September 30, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week, Kaiser chats with Manfred Elfstrom, an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Manfred’s new book, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness, examines the ...
The benefits of engagement with China, defined: An audit of the S&ED
Sinica Podcast - September 23, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton to discuss a recently published audit of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), the annual set of high-level meetings with Chinese officials ...
What's the deal with the Red New Deal?
Sinica Podcast - September 16, 2021 20:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Lizzi Lee (李其 Lǐ Qi), SupChina contributor and host of the excellent Chinese-language YouTube channel Wall Street Today, and Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), to talk about the spa...
The state of the field: U.S. China programs, with Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the NCUSCR
Sinica Podcast - September 09, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsLast month, the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) published a report for the Carnegie Corporation of New York titled “American International Relations and Security Programs Focused on China: A Survey of the Field.” This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the re...
The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China's "Gilded Age"
Sinica Podcast - September 02, 2021 16:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIf corruption is a drag on economic growth, why does China appear to have undergone some of its fastest growth during its periods of deepest corruption? This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yuen Yuen Ang, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, about...
Harvard’s William Overholt on Esquel, cotton sanctions, and forced Uyghur labor
Sinica Podcast - August 26, 2021 22:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with William (Bill) Overholt, senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a veteran China-watcher whose career has run the gamut from investment banking to academia to the leading think tanks. Bill recently weighed in...
Historian Adam Tooze on why China’s modern history should matter to Americans
Sinica Podcast - August 19, 2021 21:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the Columbia historian Adam Tooze, who returns to the program a year after his first appearance. A prolific writer and wide-ranging public intellectual, Adam was trained as a Germanist and has focused, in his writings, largely on economic history. ...
Peter Martin on ‘China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’
Sinica Podcast - August 12, 2021 21:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Peter Martin, a correspondent for Bloomberg based in Washington, D.C., about his book, China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. This highly readable and informative book tells the story of China’s diplomatic corps from...
A conversation with Ambassador Huang Ping, consul general of the P.R.C.'s New York Consulate
Sinica Podcast - August 05, 2021 21:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we’re pleased to present a conversation with Ambassador Huáng Píng 黄屏, a veteran Chinese diplomat who has been consul general of China’s New York Consulate since November 2018. He formerly served as China’s ambassador to Zimbabwe, and as consul general of China’s Ch...
Reflecting on China's poverty reduction with Bill Bikales
Sinica Podcast - July 29, 2021 20:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Bill Bikales, who recently returned to the U.S. after 15 years in China as a developmental economist with the United Nations. In June, Bill published a paper titled “Reflections on Poverty Reduction in China” for the Swiss Agency for Development an...
A data-driven dive into Chinese politics, with Stanford's Yiqing Xu
Sinica Podcast - July 22, 2021 20:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yiqing Xu, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, about his work in applying modern methods in political science to the politics of contemporary China. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss qualitative vs. quanti...
Avoiding ideological conflict with Beijing: Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss
Sinica Podcast - July 18, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss, both professors of government at Cornell University, about their recent essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Clash of Systems? Washington Should Avoid Ideological Competition With Beijing.” In that essay, they argu...
How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s
Sinica Podcast - July 08, 2021 20:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, about her new book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, her book makes important c...
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
Sinica Podcast - July 01, 2021 17:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by historian Timothy Cheek of the University of British Columbia, political scientist Elizabeth Perry of Harvard, and our very own Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chief of SupChina, in a wide-ranging discussion of the Chinese Communist Party on the occas...
China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai
Sinica Podcast - June 24, 2021 19:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yong Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This episode — the first in-person interview since February 2020 — looks at the results of China’s 2020 census, the announcement of ...
COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn
Sinica Podcast - June 17, 2021 19:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsShortly after Deborah Seligsohn was last on Sinica, in April, the lab leak hypothesis seemed suddenly to gain traction — at least in American media. This week, Kaiser invites Deborah back to the show to talk about why the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of V...
Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program
Sinica Podcast - June 10, 2021 19:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Jones, a Helsinki-based reporter who over the last several years has secured a place as the go-to English-language journalist covering China’s space program. With the successful arrival of the Tianwen spacecraft in Martian orbit and the depl...
Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma
Sinica Podcast - June 03, 2021 21:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yingyi Ma, an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University and the author of the book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education. Yingyi’s book, which focuses on the specific exp...
China, Russia, and the U.S.: Does the 'strategic triangle' still matter?
Sinica Podcast - May 27, 2021 21:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsHave China and Russia entered into a de facto anti-American alliance? Is Russia, which in Soviet days was for a time the “older brother” to Mao’s China, now comfortable with playing junior partner to Xi’s China? And has the United States, which in its opening to China demonstrated formi...
Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
Sinica Podcast - May 20, 2021 19:13 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsVeteran China scholar Orville Schell has written a dozen books on China, but his latest book — which Schell published at the age of 80 — is his first novel. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile is a bildungsroman that follows the life of Li Wende and his father, Li Shutong, from the early days...
Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ's China Initiative
Sinica Podcast - May 13, 2021 20:18 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Margaret (Maggie) Lewis, a professor of law at Seton Hall University, about her work on the U.S. Department of Justice’s “China Initiative.” Launched under former attorney general Jeff Sessions in November 2018, the China Initiative sought to bring...
China’s Heart of Darkness
Sinica Podcast - May 06, 2021 20:07 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsPrince Han Fei, or Hán Fēizǐ 韓非子, is perhaps the most influential Chinese thinker that many Westerners have never heard of. With Jeremy hosting Sinica this week, we bring to you a conversation recorded in November 2020 featuring writer and journalist Zhā Jiànyīng 渣建英 and Geremie R. Barm...
U.S.-China climate cooperation in a competitive age
Sinica Podcast - April 29, 2021 23:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, after an eventful week of climate-change-focused meetings, including U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry’s trip to China, the U.S.-hosted Leaders Summit on Climate convened on April 22 and 23. Kaiser chats with China climate policy specialist Angel Hsu, an assista...
Searching for the six Chinese survivors of the ‘Titanic’
Sinica Podcast - April 22, 2021 19:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Arthur Jones and Steven Schwankert about their documentary The Six. The film, directed by Jones and produced by James Cameron, focuses on Schwankert’s search for the six Chinese men who survived the sinking of the Titanic on the night of ...
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