Sinica Podcast

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A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.


Episode Date
Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience"
Apr 25, 2024
The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS
Apr 18, 2024
Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem?
Apr 11, 2024
Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently?
Apr 03, 2024
Back to the Future: David M. Lampton and Thomas Fingar on What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Mar 27, 2024
Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power
Mar 21, 2024
Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria
Mar 14, 2024
Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners
Mar 07, 2024
The Ukrainian Factor in China's Strategy: a roundtable
Feb 29, 2024
Peter Hessler, live at Duke University's Nasher Museum
Feb 22, 2024
This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912
Feb 16, 2024
Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn
Feb 15, 2024
Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander
Nov 09, 2023
In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022
Oct 26, 2023
Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?
Oct 19, 2023
Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy
Oct 12, 2023
China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking
Oct 05, 2023
The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour
Sep 28, 2023
Ian Johnson on "Sparks," his new book on China's underground historians
Sep 21, 2023
U.S. Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper
Sep 14, 2023
The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement
Sep 07, 2023
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book
Aug 31, 2023
China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory
Aug 24, 2023
Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"
Aug 17, 2023
The state of play of generative AI in China, with Paul Triolo
Aug 10, 2023
Is the Biden administration resetting U.S.-China relations?
Aug 03, 2023
The CFR Taiwan task force report: advice and dissent, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer
Jul 27, 2023
Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
Jul 20, 2023
China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space
Jul 13, 2023
China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
Jul 06, 2023
Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder
Jun 19, 2023
Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"
Jun 15, 2023
David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
Jun 08, 2023
Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
Jun 01, 2023
Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"
May 25, 2023
Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in
May 18, 2023
China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum
May 11, 2023
Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
May 04, 2023
Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
Apr 27, 2023
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
Apr 20, 2023
As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
Apr 13, 2023
Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
Apr 06, 2023
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis
Mar 30, 2023
The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
Mar 23, 2023
Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering
Mar 23, 2023
The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang
Mar 16, 2023
Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen
Mar 09, 2023
Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China
Mar 09, 2023
China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson
Mar 02, 2023
China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev
Feb 23, 2023
Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China's inadvertent empire in Central Asia
Feb 16, 2023
CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth
Feb 06, 2023
Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
Feb 02, 2023
Is China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman
Jan 25, 2023
A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn
Jan 19, 2023
Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis
Jan 12, 2023
The Sinica Network presents Strangers in China S3 Episode 1
Jan 06, 2023
No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3
Jan 05, 2023
Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
Dec 29, 2022
The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass argue for kicking the can down the road
Dec 21, 2022
China's push for RMB internationalization
Dec 08, 2022
A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China
Dec 01, 2022
Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne
Nov 29, 2022
Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations
Nov 23, 2022
Evan Feigenbaum on the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region
Nov 17, 2022
New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives
Nov 10, 2022
The 20th Party Congress postgame show with Damien Ma and Lizzi Lee
Nov 02, 2022
Grifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Guo Wengui
Oct 27, 2022
Overreach and overreaction, with Susan Shirk
Oct 20, 2022
Podcasting The Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast
Oct 13, 2022
Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London
Oct 06, 2022
A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington
Sep 29, 2022
China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden
Sep 22, 2022
Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China's tech-enhanced social controls
Sep 15, 2022
Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience
Sep 08, 2022
Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss
Sep 01, 2022
Is China's bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik
Aug 25, 2022
China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao
Aug 18, 2022
China and the American "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne
Aug 11, 2022
Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in
Aug 04, 2022
The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast
Jul 28, 2022
Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft
Jul 21, 2022
Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo
Jul 15, 2022
Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"
Jul 07, 2022
Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
Jun 30, 2022
Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano
Jun 16, 2022
A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years
Jun 09, 2022
Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai
Jun 02, 2022
Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT's Demetri Sevastopulo
May 26, 2022
Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of "unpeace," with the ECFR's Mark Leonard
May 19, 2022
The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn
May 12, 2022
Chinese public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Yawei Liu and Danielle Goldfarb
May 05, 2022
China and India share a contested border and an uncomfortable neutrality in the Ukraine War — but not much else
Apr 28, 2022
China, Europe, and the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Marina Rudyak
Apr 21, 2022
Inside the Shanghai lockdown, with SupChina's own Chang Che
Apr 14, 2022
After the War: Scenarios China faces when the Russo-Ukrainian War eventually ends
Apr 06, 2022
Susan Thornton on the urgent need for diplomacy with China over the Russo-Ukraine War
Mar 30, 2022
Chinese international relations scholar Dingding Chen on Beijing's position in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Mar 23, 2022
China's soft power collides with the hard realities of the Russo-Ukrainian War: A conversation with Maria Repnikova
Mar 16, 2022
China’s Ukraine conundrum, with Evan Feigenbaum
Mar 09, 2022
Biden's China policy needs to be more than "Trump lite:" A conversation with Jeff Bader
Mar 03, 2022
Veteran diplomat Bill Klein recalls the turbulent Trump years at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
Feb 24, 2022
What China is reading and why it matters: A conversation with author Megan Walsh
Feb 17, 2022
China's ideological landscape, with Jason Wu
Feb 10, 2022
Why the law matters in China, with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
Feb 03, 2022
Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex
Jan 27, 2022
Dan Wang on China in 2021: "Common prosperity," cultural stunting, and shortcomings of the "modal China story
Jan 20, 2022
Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp
Jan 13, 2022
The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt
Jan 06, 2022
Damien Ma of MacroPolo on China's economic and political outlook
Dec 30, 2021
The investigative team from MIT Technology Review that found major flaws with the DoJ's China Initiative
Dec 23, 2021
FOCAC 2021 in Dakar, Senegal, and B3W — the U.S. counter to China's BRI?
Dec 16, 2021
Sinica presents the best of China Stories 2021
Dec 09, 2021
Revisiting the Red New Deal, with Lizzi Lee and Jude Blanchette (live at NEXTChina 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
The Carter Center's survey on Chinese perception, with Yawei Liu and Michael Cerny
Nov 25, 2021
Peter Hessler live at the NEXTChina 2021 Conference in New York
Nov 18, 2021
Psychologist George Hu of the United Family Mental Health Network on mental health in China
Nov 11, 2021
Bonus Episode: Introducing the China Sports Insider Podcast
Nov 04, 2021
The worldview of Wang Huning, the Party's leading theoretician
Nov 04, 2021
It's Complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China
Oct 28, 2021
Did tariffs make a difference in Trump’s trade war?
Oct 21, 2021
How Taiwan propelled China’s economic rise, with Shelley Rigger
Oct 14, 2021
Can China meet its ambitious emissions targets?
Oct 07, 2021
How the Chinese state handles labor unrest, with Manfred Elfstrom
Sep 30, 2021
The benefits of engagement with China, defined: An audit of the S&ED
Sep 23, 2021
What's the deal with the Red New Deal?
Sep 16, 2021
The state of the field: U.S. China programs, with Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the NCUSCR
Sep 09, 2021
The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China's "Gilded Age"
Sep 02, 2021
Harvard’s William Overholt on Esquel, cotton sanctions, and forced Uyghur labor
Aug 26, 2021
Historian Adam Tooze on why China’s modern history should matter to Americans
Aug 19, 2021
Peter Martin on ‘China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’
Aug 12, 2021
A conversation with Ambassador Huang Ping, consul general of the P.R.C.'s New York Consulate
Aug 05, 2021
Reflecting on China's poverty reduction with Bill Bikales
Jul 29, 2021
A data-driven dive into Chinese politics, with Stanford's Yiqing Xu
Jul 22, 2021
Avoiding ideological conflict with Beijing: Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss
Jul 18, 2021
How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s
Jul 08, 2021
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
Jul 01, 2021
China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai
Jun 24, 2021
COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn
Jun 17, 2021
Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program
Jun 10, 2021
Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma
Jun 03, 2021
China, Russia, and the U.S.: Does the 'strategic triangle' still matter?
May 27, 2021
Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
May 20, 2021
Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ's China Initiative
May 13, 2021
China’s Heart of Darkness
May 06, 2021
U.S.-China climate cooperation in a competitive age
Apr 29, 2021
Searching for the six Chinese survivors of the ‘Titanic’
Apr 22, 2021
Beethoven in Beijing
Apr 15, 2021
China's new youth, with Alec Ash and Stephanie Studer
Apr 08, 2021
China's COVID-19 response and the virus's origins, with Deborah Seligsohn
Apr 01, 2021
Ryan Hass on his new book, ‘Stronger’
Mar 25, 2021
The parallel world of Chinese tech, with Lillian Li
Mar 18, 2021
Cheng Lei: The detention and arrest of an Australian CGTN reporter
Mar 11, 2021
Getting Chinese politics wrong, with Jude Blanchette
Mar 04, 2021
Julie Klinger on China's rare earth frontiers
Feb 25, 2021
Journalist Te-Ping Chen on her short fiction collection, Land of Big Numbers
Feb 18, 2021
The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse
Feb 11, 2021
China’s struggle for tech ascendancy, with Dan Wang of Gavekal Dragonomics
Feb 04, 2021
Talking Taiwan with former national intelligence officer Paul Heer
Jan 28, 2021
A new U.S. strategy in East Asia, from the Quincy Institute
Jan 21, 2021
China's judicial decisions database and what it means
Jan 14, 2021
Ryan Hass on the Biden administration's China direction
Jan 07, 2021
Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on "liberal" Chinese Trump supporters
Dec 31, 2020
Historian James Carter on the final days of Old Shanghai
Dec 25, 2020
Veteran diplomat Evan Feigenbaum on U.S. policy in a changing Asia
Dec 17, 2020
China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions
Dec 10, 2020
Is coercive environmentalism the answer?
Dec 03, 2020
Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
Nov 27, 2020
Jennifer Pan studied clickbait in Chinese propaganda. You won’t believe what she discovered!
Nov 19, 2020
Rana Mitter on the reshaping of China’s World War II legacy
Nov 12, 2020
A China policy for the progressive left
Nov 05, 2020
The wuxia storyverse of Peter Shiao
Oct 29, 2020
Southeast Asia in the dragon's shadow: A conversation with Sebastian Strangio
Oct 22, 2020
The American journalists still in China
Oct 15, 2020
The fight over Inner Mongolia's "bilingual education" policy
Oct 08, 2020
U.S.-China relations in 2020 with Susan Shirk
Oct 01, 2020
Online vitriol and identity with The New Yorker’s Jiayang Fan
Sep 24, 2020
Sinica celebrates the 500th episode of the China in Africa Podcast
Sep 17, 2020
Mary Kay Magistad - On China's New Silk Road (Episode 1: The China Dream)
Sep 11, 2020
Black voices in the China space
Sep 10, 2020
Poverty eradication by 2020: A reality check
Sep 03, 2020
Rapper Bohan Phoenix and DJ Allyson Toy on hip-hop in China
Aug 27, 2020
Rerun: Guo Wengui: The extraordinary tale of a Chinese billionaire turned dissident, told by Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. Foreign Service Officer Leland Lazarus on China-Caribbean relations
Aug 20, 2020
Global Governance 2020: A discussion with Kaiser Kuo and Susan Thornton
Aug 13, 2020
Adam Tooze on the geopolitics of the pandemic
Aug 06, 2020
Sir Danny Alexander on AIIB in a time of crisis
Jul 30, 2020
‘Superpower Showdown’: A conversation with authors Bob Davis and Lingling Wei
Jul 23, 2020
Huawei and the 5G ecosystem
Jul 16, 2020
Standoff in Ladakh: Ananth Krishnan on the China-India border conflict
Jul 09, 2020
The controversy over Fang Fang’s ‘Wuhan Diary’: A conversation with the translator, Michael Berry
Jul 02, 2020
Why doesn't the China bubble pop? A conversation with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik
Jun 25, 2020
Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet
Jun 18, 2020
‘Superpower Interrupted’: A conversation with veteran China journalist Michael Schuman about his Chinese history of the world
Jun 11, 2020
Max Fisher of the New York Times on media coverage of China, COVID-19, and Trump
Jun 04, 2020
Has China won? Part 2 of our conversation with Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani
May 28, 2020
Has China won? A conversation with Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani
May 21, 2020
Kaiser interviews Gordon Chang!
May 14, 2020
Grounding China's drones: Leading drone maker DJI's Brendan Schulman on U.S. regulatory challenges
May 07, 2020
The pathogen and the prejudice: Jiwei Xiao on COVID-19 in China and in America
Apr 30, 2020
The Sinica Podcast turns 10
Apr 23, 2020
China's Venezuelan vicissitudes
Apr 16, 2020
R.I.P. Liu Dehai, pipa virtuoso
Apr 13, 2020
Will China save the planet? A climatic conversation with NRDC's Barbara Finamore
Apr 09, 2020
Former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul on democracy promotion in Russia and China
Apr 02, 2020
Dexter Roberts on ‘The Myth of Chinese Capitalism’
Mar 26, 2020
Janet Yang and Michael Berry on the state of cinema in a time of souring U.S.-China ties
Mar 19, 2020
USCBC President Craig Allen on trade in a time of disruption
Mar 12, 2020
UCLA's Alex Wang on where China leads and lags in climate change
Mar 05, 2020
Jeff Wasserstrom on music in protest and revolution in modern China
Feb 27, 2020
Chinese industrial espionage and FBI profiling and overreach, with Mara Hvistendahl
Feb 20, 2020
U.S. tries to persuade Africa it is a credible alternative to China
Feb 13, 2020
Bonus Episode - coronavirus update with Yanzhong Huang
Feb 07, 2020
China policy and the American presidency
Feb 06, 2020
Former NSC official Jeff Prescott on China-Iran relations
Jan 30, 2020
Observing Taiwan’s presidential election
Jan 23, 2020
Military modernization in Xi Jinping’s China
Jan 16, 2020
The Hong Kong protests: The view from campus
Jan 09, 2020
Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners on VC, tech, and the U.S.-China relationship
Jan 02, 2020
A conversation with Gary Locke
Dec 19, 2019
Yangyang Cheng Live at NEXT China
Dec 12, 2019
Big Brother and big data at work in Xinjiang
Dec 05, 2019
Dynasty warriors: Ming vs. Qing smackdown
Nov 29, 2019
China and the techno-authoritarian narrative
Nov 22, 2019
Fuchsia Dunlop on ‘The Food of Sichuan’
Nov 14, 2019
Philanthropy in China, with Scott Kennedy of CSIS
Nov 07, 2019
Jerome Cohen on the Hong Kong protests and the law
Oct 31, 2019
Neil Thomas on regime support in the P.R.C.
Oct 24, 2019
Live from Columbia: China tech triage with Samm Sacks
Oct 17, 2019
Jude Blanchette on the Hong Kong protests
Oct 10, 2019
Podcast Golden Week: TechBuzz China Ep. 53: NetEase
Oct 09, 2019
Podcast Golden Week: Peter Hessler on ChinaEconTalk
Oct 08, 2019
Podcast Golden Week: Ta for Ta Episode 22
Oct 07, 2019
Podcast Golden Week: Middle Earth #16
Oct 04, 2019
Is China the Enemy? Featuring Ezra Vogel and Orville Schell
Oct 03, 2019
Christian Shepherd on Xinjiang and China's changing ethnic policy
Sep 26, 2019
Introducing 'Strangers in China'
Sep 19, 2019
‘Mirrorlands’: Ed Pulford on the Sino-Russian border
Sep 12, 2019
Trade war economics, with Andy Rothman
Sep 05, 2019
Making the world safe for autocracy: Jessica Chen Weiss on what Beijing wants
Aug 29, 2019
Matt Sheehan on California's role in U.S.-China relations
Aug 22, 2019
The world according to Jeremy Goldkorn
Aug 15, 2019
Wealth and Power: Intellectuals in China
Aug 08, 2019
China correspondent Emily Feng: From the FT to NPR
Aug 01, 2019
Michael Swaine on the ‘China is not an enemy’ open letter
Jul 25, 2019
An update on the Hong Kong protests
Jul 18, 2019
Searching for roots in China
Jul 11, 2019
Military Strategy and Politics in the PRC: A Conversation with Taylor Fravel
Jul 03, 2019
Umbrella Revolution 2.0 – or something else? Antony Dapiran on the Hong Kong demonstrations
Jun 27, 2019
A voice of reason within the Beltway: Ryan Hass vs. the so-called bipartisan consensus
Jun 20, 2019
A student leader 30 years after Tiananmen: Wu’er Kaixi reflects on the movement
Jun 13, 2019
China's New Red Guards: Jude Blanchette on China's Far Left
Jun 06, 2019
Charlene Barshefsky on Trump’s Trade War
May 30, 2019
Chinese Investment: Beyond the USA
May 23, 2019
‘Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy,’ with Sulmaan Wasif Khan
May 16, 2019
Howard French on how China's past shapes its present ambitions
May 09, 2019
Strength in Numbers: USTR veteran Wendy Cutler on managing trade with China
May 02, 2019
An American Futurist in China: Alvin Toffler and Reform & Opening
Apr 25, 2019
Mark Rowswell a.k.a. Dashan Live at the Bookworm Literary Festival
Apr 18, 2019
Peter Lorentzen's data-driven analysis of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
Apr 11, 2019
An update on the Xinjiang crisis with Nury Turkel
Apr 04, 2019
Samm Sacks on the U.S.-China tech relationship
Mar 28, 2019
China, the U.S., and Kenya
Mar 21, 2019
Is there really an epidemic of self-censorship among China scholars
Mar 14, 2019
Everything you ever wanted to know about Taiwan but were afraid to ask, Part 2
Mar 07, 2019
Everything you ever wanted to know about Taiwan but were afraid to ask, Part 1
Feb 28, 2019
Sinica Live with Zha Jianying: Dealing with the troublemakers
Feb 21, 2019
Introducing the Middle Earth podcast
Feb 18, 2019
China’s ethnic policy in Xinjiang and Tibet: The move toward assimilation
Feb 14, 2019
Live from the US-China Business Council: The bilateral trade relationship in 2019
Feb 07, 2019
Mexican and Canadian diplomats in a changing, challenging China
Jan 31, 2019
The U.S. and China: Cold war, or hot air?
Jan 24, 2019
Gene-edited babies, CRISPR, and China’s changing ethical landscape
Jan 17, 2019
Huawei and the tech cold war
Jan 10, 2019
Meng Wanzhou’s arrest: The legal dimension
Jan 03, 2019
40 years of reform and opening up, with Jude Blanchette
Dec 20, 2018
Blaming China
Dec 13, 2018
The Nature Conservancy in China
Dec 06, 2018
‘Shaken Authority’: Party-speak, propaganda, and the Sichuan earthquake of 2008
Nov 29, 2018
Mythbusting China’s social credit system
Nov 22, 2018
Shadow banking, P2P lending, and pyramid schemes: Lucy Hornby on China's gray economy
Nov 15, 2018
Introducing the Ta for Ta Podcast
Nov 08, 2018
Kevin Rudd on Xi Jinping’s worldview
Nov 01, 2018
Danny Russel on the rebalancing and decoupling
Oct 25, 2018
Kai-Fu Lee and the U.S.-China AI rivalry
Oct 18, 2018
Nury Turkel and the Uyghur plight
Oct 11, 2018
Introducing the ChinaEconTalk podcast
Oct 04, 2018
Xi Jinping's long, hot summer
Sep 27, 2018
Paul Haenle on North Korea, Taiwan, U.S.-China relations, and more
Sep 20, 2018
China's 'reliable friendship' with Pakistan, explained by Andrew Small
Sep 13, 2018
The strange tale of a kung-fu master in Madagascar
Sep 06, 2018
Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 3
Aug 30, 2018
Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 2
Aug 23, 2018
Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 1
Aug 16, 2018
Introducing the NüVoices Podcast
Aug 09, 2018
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir
Aug 02, 2018
Australia's Beijing problem
Jul 26, 2018
Poisonous pandas: Cigarette smoking in China
Jul 19, 2018
China's hydro dam ambitions and their consequences
Jul 12, 2018
China’s growing hacking power, with Kevin Collier and Priscilla Moriuchi
Jul 05, 2018
Kurt Campbell on U.S.-China diplomacy
Jun 28, 2018
The saga of CEFC and China's push into Central and Eastern Europe
Jun 21, 2018
Andrew Chubb on Chinese nationalism and its influence on maritime behavior
Jun 14, 2018
China’s security picture, from North Korea to the South China Sea
Jun 07, 2018
Talking trade and tech with Yasheng Huang
May 24, 2018
China's international relations, with Jiang Changjian, Ira Kasoff, and Anthony Saich
May 17, 2018
Virginia Tan on women and work in China
May 10, 2018
Introducing TechBuzz China by Pandaily, plus Joanna Chiu on Hong Kong’s illicit wildlife trade
May 03, 2018
Gao Yutong on the Chinese student experience in America
Apr 26, 2018
Live from Beijing: David Moser and Jess Meider on jazz in China
Apr 19, 2018
All sorts of swindles in the late Ming society, with Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk
Apr 12, 2018
Why China and North Korea are not as close as you think: Ma Zhao and John Delury talk history
Apr 05, 2018
The Chinese Communist Party’s refusal to reconcile with its past, explained by Orville Schell
Mar 29, 2018
The Chinese student experience in America, with Siqi Tu and Eric Fish
Mar 22, 2018
How China’s poverty alleviation program works, explained by Gao Qin
Mar 15, 2018
China’s authoritarian revival, explained by Carl Minzner
Mar 08, 2018
Courts & torts: Driving the Chinese legal system
Mar 01, 2018
The China Questions, with Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi
Feb 22, 2018
‘Critical’ journalism in China, explained by Maria Repnikova
Feb 15, 2018
Kishore Mahbubani on China’s rise and America’s myopia
Feb 08, 2018
Gerry Shih on China’s Uyghur Muslims, under pressure at home and abroad
Feb 01, 2018
Yukon Huang, the China economy contrarian
Jan 26, 2018
Jerry Yang of Yahoo: Why I Believed in Alibaba
Jan 17, 2018
Inside China’s AI revolution, with Jessi Hempel
Jan 11, 2018
Jiayang Fan on beauty in China
Dec 28, 2017
Stephen Roach on the unhealthy economic codependency of China and America
Dec 21, 2017
Rana Mitter on studying the Nanjing Massacre
Dec 14, 2017
Scott Tong on his surprising family history
Dec 07, 2017
Why China needs a #MeToo campaign but won’t allow it: A conversation with Leta Hong Fincher
Nov 30, 2017
When American pilots fell out of the Chinese sky
Nov 22, 2017
Jane Perlez on Trump’s visit to Beijing
Nov 16, 2017
Gary Liu, CEO of the South China Morning Post
Nov 09, 2017
Takeaways from China’s 19th Party Congress, with Bill Bishop and Jude Blanchette
Nov 02, 2017
The China-Africa relationship, a decade after its blossoming
Oct 26, 2017
Authoritarian schooling in Shanghai vs. the American approach
Oct 19, 2017
A conversation with Chinese adoptees in the U.S.
Oct 12, 2017
Alarm bells in the ivory tower: Jim Millward on the Cambridge University Press censorship fiasco
Oct 05, 2017
Richard McGregor on the complicated ties between China, Japan, and the U.S. since World War II
Sep 28, 2017
North Korea behind the scenes, with Evan Osnos
Sep 21, 2017
China in drag: Michael Bristow discusses his new book on China’s — and one man’s — incredible transformation
Sep 14, 2017
China’s tightening grip on cyberspace
Sep 07, 2017
China’s environmental challenges: Overfishing, toxic soil, and unbreathable air
Aug 31, 2017
U.S.-China relations after six months of Trump, with Susan Shirk and Stan Rosen
Aug 24, 2017
Of dirty words and Party-speak: Sinica Podcast live in D.C.
Aug 17, 2017
Gillian Wong and Josh Chin on journalism careers in China
Aug 10, 2017
China’s great spiritual revival
Aug 03, 2017
Joan Kaufman on foreign nonprofits and academia in China
Jul 27, 2017
Straight talk on North Korea and China, with Lyle Goldstein
Jul 20, 2017
China’s Asian power play: Tom Miller on the future of Belt and Road
Jul 13, 2017
Jerome A. Cohen on human rights and law in China
Jul 06, 2017
Guo Wengui: The extraordinary tale of a Chinese billionaire turned dissident, told by Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson
Jun 29, 2017
David Rank, top U.S. diplomat, on why he resigned to protest Trump
Jun 22, 2017
Islamophobia in China, explained by Alice Su and Ma Tianjie
Jun 15, 2017
How does investigative reporting happen in China? A conversation with Li Xin of Caixin
Jun 08, 2017
Kai-Fu Lee on artificial intelligence in China
Jun 01, 2017
Reporting on Trump as a member of Chinese media
May 25, 2017
Joseph Nye, Jr.: Chinese power in the age of Donald Trump
May 17, 2017
The negotiator: Charlene Barshefsky
May 11, 2017
Bill Bishop on what it takes to be a good China-watcher
May 04, 2017
How can we amplify women’s voices on China?
Apr 27, 2017
What actually happened at Mar-a-Lago?
Apr 20, 2017
Virginia Kamsky: A life of business in China
Apr 13, 2017
Nationalism in Russia and China
Apr 06, 2017
China’s push into Eastern Europe: A conversation with Martin Hála
Mar 30, 2017
Trump and Xi Jinping: What lies ahead?
Mar 23, 2017
Chris Buckley: The China journalist’s China journalist
Mar 16, 2017
Big Daddy Dough: Hip-hop and macroeconomics in China
Mar 09, 2017
Jane Perlez: Chinese foreign relations in a new age of uncertainty
Mar 02, 2017
Rhino horn and organized crime, from Africa to China and Vietnam
Feb 23, 2017
Africa-China journalism
Feb 16, 2017
Susan Shirk: The fragile superpower and trepidation over Trump
Feb 09, 2017
John Zhu retells the Three Kingdoms story
Feb 02, 2017
Sidney Rittenberg on solitary confinement and more
Jan 26, 2017
Sidney Rittenberg: An interview with a revolutionary
Jan 19, 2017
Ken Liu on Chinese science fiction
Jan 12, 2017
Talking ’bout my generation: Alec Ash and Chinese millennials
Jan 05, 2017
Ian Johnson on the Vatican and China
Dec 29, 2016
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: Part Two
Dec 22, 2016
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: a conversation with John Pomfret on his new book
Dec 15, 2016
Beijing Meets Banjo: Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn
Dec 08, 2016
Edward Wong on foreign correspondence and dealing with censorship in China
Dec 01, 2016
Books, podcasts and the history of science in China with Carla Nappi
Nov 22, 2016
The delights of cooking Chinese food: A conversation with chef and author Fuchsia Dunlop
Nov 17, 2016
How has China changed in the past four decades? A conversation with John Holden
Nov 10, 2016
How will Donald Trump’s victory impact China and U.S.-China relations?
Nov 10, 2016
Love and journalism in wartime China: An interview with Bill Lascher
Nov 03, 2016
Why China bears are wrong: An interview with Andy Rothman
Oct 27, 2016
Suing for clean air and studying for the bar exam: Rachel Stern on China's legal system
Oct 20, 2016
Lines of fracture in Chinese public opinion: A conversation with Ma Tianjie
Oct 13, 2016
Mei Fong on the one-child policy, its consequences and what's next for China's demographics
Oct 06, 2016
Michael Manning: Behind bars in Beijing
Sep 28, 2016
Fan Yang on fakes, pirates and shanzhai culture
Sep 22, 2016
Frank H. Wu on Chinese-Americans and China
Sep 15, 2016
Andrew Ng on artificial intelligence and startup culture from Beijing to Silicon Valley
Sep 08, 2016
Filmmaker Daniel Whelan on Yiwu, a city at the core of cheap Chinese goods
Sep 01, 2016
What is cultural about the Cultural Revolution? Paul Clark on creativity amid destruction
Aug 25, 2016
It's all connected: Silk Roads old and new
Aug 18, 2016
A discussion with Cheng Li: Where is Chinese politics going?
Aug 11, 2016
Clay Shirky on tech and the internet in China
Aug 04, 2016
Calming the waters of the South China Sea and beyond
Jul 28, 2016
Whose century is it, anyway?
Jul 21, 2016
The Kaiser Kuo exit interview
Jul 14, 2016
Understanding China through a vibrant Shanghai street
Jul 06, 2016
Why do so many Chinese people admire Donald Trump?
Jun 30, 2016
Patrolling China's cyberspace
Jun 23, 2016
Arthur Kroeber vs. The Conventional Wisdom
Jun 16, 2016
50 years of work on U.S.-China relations
Jun 03, 2016
Live: The Cultural Revolution at 50
May 15, 2016
Public opinion with Chinese characteristics
Apr 20, 2016
Neo-Maoists: Everything old is new again
Mar 20, 2016
Allegiance
Feb 20, 2016
Sauced: American cooking in China
Feb 06, 2016
The China meltdown
Jan 25, 2016
Air pollution and climate change
Jan 08, 2016
While we're here: China stories from a writers' colony
Dec 21, 2015
Out of Africa: The swifts of Beijing
Dec 20, 2015
Live at the Bookworm, part two: What's ahead for China?
Nov 15, 2015
Live at the Bookworm, part one: How has Beijing changed over the years?
Nov 14, 2015
Fokke Obbema on China's rising power and the nation's relations with the West
Oct 27, 2015
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Oct 21, 2015
Edmund Backhouse in the long view of history
Oct 04, 2015
Sinica archive: Beijing's Great Leap Forward
Jul 27, 2015
Rogier Creemers on cyber Leninism and the political culture of the Chinese internet
Apr 08, 2015
Comfort women and the struggle for reparations
Apr 07, 2015
Under the Dome
Mar 09, 2015
LGBT China
Sep 20, 2014
The Islamic State and China
Sep 10, 2014
Bo Xilai: The Trial of the Century
Aug 31, 2013
The one-child policy, plus the African community in Guangzhou
Jun 23, 2012
The extremes of Chinese media, plus Chinese internet humor
Nov 04, 2011
Zhao Liang and the South-North Water Diversion Project
Aug 27, 2011
Suicides, strikes, and labor unrest in China
Jun 04, 2010
Critical media, foreign and domestic
May 28, 2010
Mao's legacy and foreign self-censorship
May 21, 2010
Schoolyard violence with Chinese characterisitcs
May 15, 2010
Dimensions of China's soft power
May 07, 2010
Huang Guangyu trial and real estate dilemma
May 01, 2010
The eulogy and the aftershocks
Apr 23, 2010
China's gadflies and the mine miracle
Apr 16, 2010
Iran and the vaccination scandal
Apr 09, 2010
Google China and the Pullout
Apr 02, 2010