Podcast Episodes

In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022

This 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.

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?

This 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 …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy

This week on the Sinica Podcast: a lecture by Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute, delivered last year to D.C.-based Faith & Law at their Friday Forum. The lecture, title…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking

This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who writes for Initium Media. The two w…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour

This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser chats with Matías Tarnopolsky, the orchestra’s president a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Ian Johnson on "Sparks," his new book on China's underground historians

This week on Sinica, Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Ian Johnson, now a senior China fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Kaiser to discuss his new book, Sparks" China's Underg…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

U.S. Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper

This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Representative Rick Larsen of the Washington 2nd District, the co-founder and continuously serving Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Gro…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement

This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Karen Hao, a reporter recently with the Wall Street Journal whose previous work with the MIT Technology Review has been featured on Sinica; and by Deborah Sel…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book

This week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, an…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory

Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of "This Week in China's History" columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little interstitial music by Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn).

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Published on 2 years, 4 months ago