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How Chinese Ink Painting Survived the CCP
How did Chinese painting, arguably the elitist of arts, fare during the Cultural Revolution? To discuss ink paintings, socialist realism, oil paintin…
4 years, 1 month ago
Global Standards: What's the Deal?
Standards. Who has them? From shipping containers to screws to tech gadgets, how is it that something made in China can have certain attributes ident…
4 years, 1 month ago
Shanghai Lockdown + Wang Huning's Unhappy Travels in America + Classics in China
In 1991, a young Chinese academic published America against America, a look at the contradictions and paradoxes he observed while traveling there. Hi…
4 years, 2 months ago
China/Russia + Why China's Making More Nukes
Is a nuclear arms race inevitable? China has been building up its nuclear arsenal over the past few years. While it remains significantly smaller tha…
4 years, 2 months ago
How will Beijing Respond to the War in Ukraine?
CSIS' Bonny Lin joins to discuss how Beijing is responding to the war in Ukraine, potential future paths for Chinese policy, whether the IC could pul…
4 years, 2 months ago
Taiwan indie music 101, the Taipei underground and tankie rappers
Taipei-based DJ and New Bloom editor Brian Hioe (@brianhioe) takes us on a tour of the local indie music scene and explains what some of last year’s …
4 years, 2 months ago
Orgies, US Navy Corruption and The Fall of Fat Leonard
In the 2010s, US Navy officers took cash, prostitutes and more from a Malaysian defense contractor known as Fat Leonard. To tell a story that bears m…
4 years, 3 months ago
UkraineTalk: The View from Berlin
Will Germany’s policy changes towards Russia have a knock-on effect on its attitude towards China? To get the view from Germany, I’m joined by Berlin…
4 years, 3 months ago
Xi-Putin Relations and the view from Riga
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head of Riga Stradins University China Studies Centre, Head of the Asia program at the Latvian Institute of Interna…
4 years, 3 months ago
How Eastern Europe Sees China and The War in Ukraine
Matej Šimalčík, Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, joins from Bratislava to discuss:
4 years, 3 months ago