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What Evergrande Means for China
Logan Wright of the Rhodium Group returns to the pod to discuss Evergrande's implosion, how we got here, and what this week means for China's economy…
5 years, 1 month ago
Mao and the Monkey King
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, discusses translating Journey to the West …
5 years, 1 month ago
Mao and the Monkey King
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, discusses translating Journey to the West …
5 years, 1 month ago
Russia's Pivot to Asia From Czars to Putin
How did Russian imperial ambitions and expansionism eastward change over time?
Joining me on this episode is Chris Miller, author of We Shall Be Maste…
5 years, 1 month ago
Tech Crackdown, Common Prosperity, and The Dao of ChinaTalk
I was a guest on the Compounding Curiosity podcast, a new show founded by a ChinaTalk fan that focuses on ASEAN, and we had a halfway decent conversa…
5 years, 1 month ago
Tooze and Klein on China's Economic History and Future
How much credit can the CCP claim post-1949 for the higher level of human development relative to the level of visible capital in China? To discuss, …
5 years, 1 month ago
SpaceX, Elon and their Chinese Imitators
How did SpaceX revolutionize the global space industry? To discuss SpaceX's origin story and secret sauce, guest Eric Berger, author of Liftoff: Elon…
5 years, 2 months ago
BadChinaTake on China Twitter
@BadChinaTake, an anonymous twitter account that combined vicious takedowns of, well, bad china takes with a blog https://wokeglobaltimes.com/ that d…
5 years, 2 months ago
Hot Space Summer: China's Commercial Space Boom
In 2019, Thomas Colvin, Irina Liu and Shirley Han at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (https://www.ida.org/ida-ffrdcs/science-and-technolo…
5 years, 2 months ago
Tough Tech, Roombas, Valleys of Death, and Woolly Mammoths
How do Roombas illustrate the promise and peril of translational research? Which valley of death is really the worst valley of death? And how can woo…
5 years, 3 months ago