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Andrew Ng on artificial intelligence and startup culture from Beijing to Silicon Valley
What is the state of the art of artificial intelligence (AI) in China and the United States? How does language recognition differ for Chinese and English? And what’s up with self-driving cars? To an…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
Filmmaker Daniel Whelan on Yiwu, a city at the core of cheap Chinese goods
Renowned as a trading town during the Qing dynasty, the eastern city of Yiwu again became famous for its markets after China's economic reforms kicked in during the 1980s. Since then, the metropolis …
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
What is cultural about the Cultural Revolution? Paul Clark on creativity amid destruction
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic decade of Chinese history made infamous in the West through books such as Wild Swans and Life and Death in…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
It's all connected: Silk Roads old and new
Jim Millward is one of the world’s leading scholars on Xinjiang and Central Asia, and the author of many books and articles, including Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central …
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
A discussion with Cheng Li: Where is Chinese politics going?
This episode of Sinica is a wide-ranging conversation with Cheng Li (李成), one of the most prominent international scholars of elite Chinese politics and its relation to grassroots changes and generat…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Clay Shirky on tech and the internet in China
In this episode of Sinica, Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody who has written about the internet and its effects on society since the 1990s, joins Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss the streng…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Calming the waters of the South China Sea and beyond
This episode, Jeremy and Kaiser head to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, to speak with Professor Lyle Goldstein, the author of Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Whose century is it, anyway?
This live recording of Sinica at the Smyth Hotel in New York City on July 13 features the journalists Mary Kay Magistad and Gady Epstein discussing the increasingly complex "frenemyship" of China and…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
The Kaiser Kuo exit interview
This week, Kaiser sits in the guest chair and tells us about his 20-plus years of living in China. He recounts being the front man for the heavy metal band Tang Dynasty and the group's tour stops in …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Understanding China through a vibrant Shanghai street
Rob Schmitz, China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace, has been living in the nation on and off since 1995. He is the author of Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago