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Of dirty words and Party-speak: Sinica Podcast live in D.C.
Dirty words, politically incorrect phrases, the legal distinction between suspect and criminal, customs boundary versus national boundary, and better ways to refer to disabled people and minorities: …
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Gillian Wong and Josh Chin on journalism careers in China
Gillian Wong has been reporting from China since 2008 and is now the news director for Greater China at the Associated Press. High-profile stories Gillian has covered include the 2012 Tibetan self-im…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
China’s great spiritual revival
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist Ian Johnson returns to the Sinica Podcast to introduce his new book, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. It tells the stories of differe…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Joan Kaufman on foreign nonprofits and academia in China
Joan Kaufman is a fascinating figure: Her long and storied career in China started in the early 1980s, when she was what she calls a “cappuccino-and-croissant socialist from Berkeley.” Today, she is …
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Straight talk on North Korea and China, with Lyle Goldstein
Lyle Goldstein, an associate professor and strategic researcher at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute, is an expert on Chinese and Russian security strategies. He is also a…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
China’s Asian power play: Tom Miller on the future of Belt and Road
Tom Miller, senior Asia analyst and managing editor at Gavekal Research, joins Jeremy and Kaiser to discuss his new book, China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road. Miller combines…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Jerome A. Cohen on human rights and law in China
Professor Jerome A. Cohen began studying the law of what was then called “Red China” in the early 1960s, at a time when the country was closed off, little understood, and much maligned in the West. L…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Guo Wengui: The extraordinary tale of a Chinese billionaire turned dissident, told by Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson
The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Gu…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
David Rank, top U.S. diplomat, on why he resigned to protest Trump
David Rank became the leading diplomat for one of America’s most important embassies during the transition when Iowa governor Terry Branstad formally succeeded former Montana senator Max Baucus as U.…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Islamophobia in China, explained by Alice Su and Ma Tianjie
Islamophobia isn’t a phenomenon limited to Trump’s America or the Europe of Brexit and Marine Le Pen. It has taken root in China, too — in a form that bears a striking resemblance to what we’ve seen …
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago