Mei Fong on the one-child policy, its consequences and what's next for China's demographics
The first day of 2016 marked the official end of China’s one-child policy, one of the most controversial and draconian approaches to population management in human history. The rules have not been abo...
6 Loka 201655min
Michael Manning: Behind bars in Beijing
In 2009, Michael Manning was working in Beijing for a state-owned news broadcaster by day, but he spent his nights selling bags of hashish. His position with CCTV was easy and brought him into contact...
28 Syys 201659min
Fan Yang on fakes, pirates and shanzhai culture
Fakes, knockoffs, pirate goods, counterfeits: China is notorious as the global manufacturing center of all things ersatz. But in the first decade after the People’s Republic joined the World Trade Org...
22 Syys 201649min
Frank H. Wu on Chinese-Americans and China
What is the Chinese-American identity? How has the rise of China affected American attitudes toward ethnically Chinese people in the United States and elsewhere? How do the 3.8 million Chinese-America...
15 Syys 20161h 7min
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 ans...
8 Syys 201642min
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 o...
1 Syys 201640min
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 ...
25 Elo 201637min
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 A...
18 Elo 201655min
