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Historian James Carter on the final days of Old Shanghai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with James “Jay” Carter, a professor of history at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, about his terrific new book, Champions Day: The End of Old Shan…
Published on 5 years ago
Veteran diplomat Evan Feigenbaum on U.S. policy in a changing Asia
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Beijing, and New Delh…
Published on 5 years ago
China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions
This week on Sinica, we bring you a conversation with Pallavi Aiyar, a prolific writer and, until 2008, a Beijing-based journalist, and Ananth Krishnan, who reported from China for The Hindu and Indi…
Published on 5 years ago
Is coercive environmentalism the answer?
In this episode of Sinica, which was taped live at the fourth annual NEXTChina Conference on November 11, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, co-authors of a new book called Chin…
Published on 5 years ago
Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
This week on Sinica, we teamed up with Columbia University Press and the Columbia Global Centers to convene a conversation with Brian Dott, a professor of history and Middle Eastern studies at Whitma…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Pan studied clickbait in Chinese propaganda. You won’t believe what she discovered!
This week on Sinica, we present the first installment in a three-part series produced in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), highlighting the groundbreaking work of young s…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Rana Mitter on the reshaping of China’s World War II legacy
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Rana Mitter, professor of the history and politics of modern China at St. Cross College, Oxford, and director of the University of Oxford China Centre, about hi…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
A China policy for the progressive left
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner about what a progressive U.S. policy toward China should look like. Tobita is the director of Justice Is Global, a special proje…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
The wuxia storyverse of Peter Shiao
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the Los Angeles–based film producer Peter Shiao about his vision of bringing wuxia 武侠 — a genre that tells stories of chivalrous martial artists with supernatur…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Southeast Asia in the dragon's shadow: A conversation with Sebastian Strangio
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Sebastian Strangio, the Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat, about his new book, In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century. The …
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago