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Air pollution and climate change
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are joined by Deborah Seligsohn, former science counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and currently a doctoral candidate at the Univers…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
While we're here: China stories from a writers' colony
When Ernest Hemingway somewhat presciently referred to Paris as a "moveable feast" ("wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you"), he captured the feelings of many long-term China e…
Published on 10 years ago
Out of Africa: The swifts of Beijing
Amazing research now suggests that Beijing's swifts, the tiny creatures most residents pass by without noticing, are some of the most well-travelled birds on the planet, averaging an astonishing 124…
Published on 10 years ago
Live at the Bookworm, part two: What's ahead for China?
This is the second part of our episode of Sinica recorded during a special live event at the Bookworm Literary Festival. In this show David Moser and Kaiser Kuo were joined by China-newcomer Jeremy G…
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago
Live at the Bookworm, part one: How has Beijing changed over the years?
Our episode of Sinica this week was captured during a special live event at the Bookworm Literary Festival, where David Moser and Kaiser Kuo were joined by China-newcomer Jeremy Goldkorn, fresh off t…
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago
Fokke Obbema on China's rising power and the nation's relations with the West
The West has spent decades pleading with China to become a responsible stakeholder in the global community, but what happens now that China is starting to take a more proactive role internationally? …
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
This week on Sinica, we are delighted to present a show on Tu Youyou, the Chinese scientist who recently shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of the anti-malaria drug Arte…
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Edmund Backhouse in the long view of history
Edmund Backhouse, the 20th-century Sinologist, long-time Beijing resident, and occasional con artist, is perhaps best known for his incendiary memoirs, which not only distorted Western understanding …
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Sinica archive: Beijing's Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Brewery is an institution. As one of the earliest American-style microbreweries in China, not only has the company rescued us from endless nights of Snow and Yanjing, but it's also given u…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Rogier Creemers on cyber Leninism and the political culture of the Chinese internet
Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to be joined in Popup Towers by Rogier Creemers, post-doctoral fellow at Oxford, author of the fantastic China Copyright and Media blog and one of the most in…
Published on 10 years, 8 months ago