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A data-driven dive into Chinese politics, with Stanford's Yiqing Xu
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yiqing Xu, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, about his work in applying modern methods in political science to the politics of…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Avoiding ideological conflict with Beijing: Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss, both professors of government at Cornell University, about their recent essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Clash of Systems?…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, about her new book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Re…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by historian Timothy Cheek of the University of British Columbia, political scientist Elizabeth Perry of Harvard, and our very own Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chi…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yong Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This episode — the first in-person interview…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn
Shortly after Deborah Seligsohn was last on Sinica, in April, the lab leak hypothesis seemed suddenly to gain traction — at least in American media. This week, Kaiser invites Deborah back to the show…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Jones, a Helsinki-based reporter who over the last several years has secured a place as the go-to English-language journalist covering China’s space prog…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yingyi Ma, an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University and the author of the book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
China, Russia, and the U.S.: Does the 'strategic triangle' still matter?
Have China and Russia entered into a de facto anti-American alliance? Is Russia, which in Soviet days was for a time the “older brother” to Mao’s China, now comfortable with playing junior partner to…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
Veteran China scholar Orville Schell has written a dozen books on China, but his latest book — which Schell published at the age of 80 — is his first novel. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile is a bildung…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago