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Why do so many Chinese people admire Donald Trump?
Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for The New Yorker who moved from Chongqing to North America when she was seven years old. Despite her inability to drink alcohol because of an acetaldehyde dehydrogenas…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Patrolling China's cyberspace
Adam Segal is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, The Hacked World…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
Arthur Kroeber vs. The Conventional Wisdom
In this episode of Sinica, we present an in-depth interview with Arthur Kroeber, the founding partner and head of research for Gavekal Dragonomics, an independent global economic research firm, and t…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
50 years of work on U.S.-China relations
In this week's episode of Sinica, we are proud to announce that we're joining forces with SupChina. We're also delighted that our first episode with our new partner is a conversation with President S…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
Live: The Cultural Revolution at 50
Fifty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, inaugurating a decade of political turmoil with his calls for young people to "bombard the headquarters." In this speci…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Public opinion with Chinese characteristics
The immense popularity of social media has afforded China watchers a terrific window onto public opinion in China. In recent years, a slew of English-language websites have emerged to interpret the v…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Neo-Maoists: Everything old is new again
Members of the Politburo are rarely praised for their dancing skills, but consider Xi Jinping's almost flawless execution of a political two-step: first casting himself as the voice of liberal modera…
Published on 9 years, 9 months ago
Allegiance
Kaiser and Jeremy recorded today's show from New York, where they waylaid Holly Chang, founder of Project Pengyou and now the Acting Executive Director of the Committee of 100, for a discussion on sp…
Published on 9 years, 10 months ago
Sauced: American cooking in China
Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are joined this week by Howie Southworth and Greg Matza, creators of the independent video series Sauced in Translation, a reality show that journeys into the wilder parts …
Published on 9 years, 10 months ago
The China meltdown
With equity markets in free fall, housing prices skipping downwards, foreign reserves plummeting and industrial production on a road trip back to the last decade, it's no surprise that permabears lik…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago