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Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education"
This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Ful…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry
This week on Sinica, a conversation that I moderated on May 30th called “Assessing the Impact of US-China Rivalry on Ukraine and Taiwan,” put on by the Ukrainian Platform for Contemporary China. The …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Jonathan Chatwin on Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jonathan Chatwin, author of a new book about Deng Xiaoping's "Southern Tour" of early 1992 — a pivotal event that renewed a commitment to economic reforms aft…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Ed Lanfranco: from Hoarder to Historian
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by old friend Ed Lanfranco, who lived in Beijing from 1988 to 2009. An inveterate packrat, Ed managed to accumulate an incredible trove of documents,…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Jay Kuo on Beijing's Gay 90s
This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome — my brother! Jay Kuo is a Broadway writer & producer, and the man behind the terrific U.S. politics-focused Substack newsletter The Status Kuo. In a pre…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The Struggle for Taiwan: Sulmaan Wasif Khan of Tufts University on his new book
This week on Sinica, I chat with Sulmaan Wasif Khan, professor of history and international relations at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, about his book The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez on her new podcast series, Face-Off
This week on Sinica, veteran reporter Jane Perlez, who served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beijing until 2019, joins to discuss her new podcast series Face-Off, which explores different …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience"
This week on Sinica, Iza Ding, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, joins t…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS
This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome Dá Wēi (达巍), one of China’s foremost scholars of China’s foreign relations and especially relations with the U.S. Da Wei is the director of the Center fo…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem?
This week on Sinica, a discussion of Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem (or more accurately, Remembrance of Earth's Past). Joining me to chat about the big-budget show is Cind…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago