The Chinese Game Industry’s Journey to the West — Rui Ma and Rob Wynne on the Success of Black Myth: Wukong
The Chinese game studio Game Science has a hit on its hands! The game Black Myth: Wukong, an action role-playing game (ARPG) based on the Monkey King from Journey to the West, has sold extraordinarily...
12 Syys 202458min
The Tragedy of Old School Beijing Hip-Hop with Olivia Fu
This week on Sinica, I chat with Olivia Fu, who this spring completed her year at Schwarzman College and wrote her Capstone project — a research paper that is required of all Schwarzman Scholars — on ...
7 Syys 20241h 2min
Does Beijing Really Want Trump?
Hey folks! I took some time off to drive the kids to college and then flew to California to celebrate my brother John’s birthday. The upshot is there’s no interview this week, so in place of that, her...
28 Elo 202416min
The Swifts of Beijing, with Terry Townshend of Birding Beijing
I was looking for a good episode to pull from the archive to run this week as I'll be traveling and I asked my good friend Deb Seligsohn for a recommendation. She went immediately to this one, and by ...
15 Elo 202458min
Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education
Here's a little bonus ep for you ahead of tomorrow's show, which will be a re-run of a really fun one from about 10 years ago! I'm driving the rest of this week to the Midwest to drop my kids off at t...
14 Elo 202413min
China's Response to U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls, with Paul Triolo and Kevin Xu
This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo rejoins the show for a deep, deep dive into China's response to American export controls on advanced semiconductors and related technologies. How much hurt has the pol...
8 Elo 20241h 35min
Eric Olander on China in the Global South
This week on Sinica, I'm joined by Eric Olander, host of the outstanding China in Africa Podcast and the indispensable China-Global South Podcast, and creator of the China-Global South Project. Eric's...
1 Elo 20241h 3min
A Letter from Beijing
This week, my narration of a longish essay about my recently-concluded four-week trip to Dalian and, more importantly, Beijing — my first time back in the city I called home for so long since the COVI...
25 Heinä 202434min
