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Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Villanova University historian Andrew Liu. Andy published an excellent essay in n+1 magazine in April that captured how the eclipse of the "wet-market" theory o…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, about her wonderful new book Kingdom of …
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Shelley Rigger of Davidson College returns to the show to talk Taiwan. She's joined by Simona Grano, a sinologist and Taiwan specialist at the University of Zürich. T…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with James (Jay) Carter, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Jay, who joined us on the show in December 2020 to talk a…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Dr. George Hu, a clinical psychologist based in Shanghai, who has a lot to say about the state of mental health in Chinese cities under lockdown. Unsurprisin…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT's Demetri Sevastopulo
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes veteran Asia reporter Demetri Sevastopulo, who covers the U.S.-China relationship for the Financial Times. They discuss some of Demetri's scoops, like the news th…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of "unpeace," with the ECFR's Mark Leonard
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Mark Leonard, founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author most recently of The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Confli…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn
This week on Sinica, Deborah Seligsohn returns to the show to talk about the sad state of U.S.-China scientific collaboration. As the Science Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2003 to 200…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Chinese public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Yawei Liu and Danielle Goldfarb
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined again by Yawei Liu, Senior Director for China at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and by Danielle Goldfarb, head of global research at RIWI Corp, an innova…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
China and India share a contested border and an uncomfortable neutrality in the Ukraine War — but not much else
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and associate professor of politi…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago