Podcast Episodes

The American journalists still in China

Since February, a series of tit-for-tat restrictions on and expulsions of journalists in the U.S. and China have resulted in the decimation of the ranks of reporters in the P.R.C. While the bureaus o…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

The fight over Inner Mongolia's "bilingual education" policy

This week on Sinica, we discuss the controversy surrounding the decision by Beijing to selectively replace Mongolian-language instruction in schools in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with Manda…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

U.S.-China relations in 2020 with Susan Shirk

This podcast was recorded as part of the 2020 SupChina Women’s Conference on September 9, 2020. 

Susan Shirk, chair and research professor of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Poli…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

Online vitriol and identity with The New Yorker’s Jiayang Fan

Jiayang Fan, friend of Sinica and staff writer for The New Yorker, joins Kaiser and Jeremy for a discussion on her recently published long-form piece, How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda. T…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Sinica celebrates the 500th episode of the China in Africa Podcast

Since 2010, the China in Africa Podcast has brought balanced, wide-ranging conversations about one of the most consequential developments in the global economy and geopolitics to a worldwide audience…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Mary Kay Magistad - On China's New Silk Road (Episode 1: The China Dream)

This week, we're delighted to bring you the first episode of Mary Kay Magistad's brand new podcast, On China's New Silk Road. Mary Kay is a veteran China reporter and a dear friend of the Sinica Podc…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Black voices in the China space

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Keisha Brown, Mark Akpaninyie, and Leland Lazarus about initiatives they're involved with to increase black representation in China-related fields. Keisha Brown…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Poverty eradication by 2020: A reality check

This week on Sinica, in a show that was streamed live on August 27, Kaiser and Jeremy examine China’s efforts to fulfill the goal of Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 of eradicating extreme poverty in China by the end …

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Rapper Bohan Phoenix and DJ Allyson Toy on hip-hop in China

In a show taped in May, Kaiser chats with New York–based rapper Bohan Phoenix, who has gained audiences in both the U.S. and China, and Allyson Toy, his manager, a Chinese American who has worked on …

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago

Rerun: Guo Wengui: The extraordinary tale of a Chinese billionaire turned dissident, told by Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson

This episode of the Sinica Podcast, recorded in June 2017, is running as a bonus this week. 

The arrest of Stephen Bannon yesterday on August 20, 2020, has brought renewed media attention to Guō Wéngu…

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago