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The Chinese student experience in America, with Siqi Tu and Eric Fish
This week, our featured topic is Chinese students overseas. There are about 800,000 of them, and according to China’s Ministry of Education, nearly 80 percent choose to return to China soon after fin…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
How China’s poverty alleviation program works, explained by Gao Qin
There is no question that China has seen a miracle of poverty reduction. According to the World Bank, since the economic reforms that started in 1978, economic growth in China has “lifted more than 8…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
China’s authoritarian revival, explained by Carl Minzner
This week, we have an inadvertently timely podcast on China’s authoritarian revival. Mere days before the episode’s recording, Chinese President Xi Jinping set the stage to extend his power to rule C…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Courts & torts: Driving the Chinese legal system
"Having read hundreds and hundreds of these cases, I have decided that I'm never going to drive in China." That is what Benjamin Liebman, the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Colum…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
The China Questions, with Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi
“We hear, in the media and in comments by politicians, a lot of very glib statements that oversimplify China, that suggest all of China is one thing or one way,” says Michael Szonyi, a professor of…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
‘Critical’ journalism in China, explained by Maria Repnikova
Outside observers typically view China’s media as utterly shackled by the bonds of censorship, unable to critique the government or speak truth to power in any meaningful sense. In part, this is true…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Kishore Mahbubani on China’s rise and America’s myopia
China, as we say at the beginning of each Sinica Podcast episode, is a nation that is reshaping the world. But what does that reshaping really look like, and how does — and should — the world react t…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Gerry Shih on China’s Uyghur Muslims, under pressure at home and abroad
Associated Press (AP) reporter Gerry Shih was hard at work in 2017 writing a remarkable series of articles on China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. By traveling not just to China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomo…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Yukon Huang, the China economy contrarian
Yukon Huang thinks that China’s economy is extremely unconventional. Unsurprisingly, then, that nearly all the conventional economic wisdom we hear about this economy — particularly the two hugely po…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Jerry Yang of Yahoo: Why I Believed in Alibaba
This week on Sinica, we bring you a special preview of a new podcast called 996 Podcast with GGV Capital, which we are very excited to co-produce. Subscribe to the 996 Podcast here on iTunes, and he…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago