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Sidney Rittenberg: An interview with a revolutionary
Sidney Rittenberg was a labor activist in the American South before going to China as a translator for the U.S. Army in 1945. He stayed there until 1980, joining the Communist Party and going to the …
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Ken Liu on Chinese science fiction
Ken Liu is a science-fiction writer, translator, computer programmer, and lawyer. He has written two novels and more than 100 short stories. His short story “The Paper Menagerie” is the first work of…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Talking ’bout my generation: Alec Ash and Chinese millennials
Alec Ash is a young British writer who lives in Beijing, who has covered “left behind” children in Chinese villages, the “toughest high school exam in the world” and internet live streaming among man…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Ian Johnson on the Vatican and China
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who has lived in Beijing and Taiwan for more than half of the past 30 years, writing for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York R…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: Part Two
John Pomfret first went to China as a student in 1980 and covered the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989 for the Associated Press. He was expelled for his efforts, but returned to Beijing a decade late…
Published on 9 years ago
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: a conversation with John Pomfret on his new book
John Pomfret was 14 years old when Henry Kissinger began interacting with China in secret. He took his fascination to Stanford University’s East Asian Studies program, where he was among a select gro…
Published on 9 years ago
Beijing Meets Banjo: Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn
Wu Fei is a classically trained composer and performer of the guzheng, or traditional Chinese 21-string zither. Abigail Washburn is a Grammy Award–winning American banjo player and fluent speaker of …
Published on 9 years ago
Edward Wong on foreign correspondence and dealing with censorship in China
Edward Wong became a reporter for The New York Times in 1999. He covered the Iraq war from Baghdad from 2003 to 2007, and then moved to Beijing in 2008. He has written about a wide range of subjects …
Published on 9 years ago
Books, podcasts and the history of science in China with Carla Nappi
In addition to teaching history at the University of British Columbia, Carla Nappi hosts the New Books in East Asian Studies and New Books in Science, Technology and Society podcasts. She is also th…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
The delights of cooking Chinese food: A conversation with chef and author Fuchsia Dunlop
In this episode of the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Fuchsia about her time at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine, how she chooses recipes for her books and the gamut of flavors of C…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago