Harvard’s William Overholt on Esquel, cotton sanctions, and forced Uyghur labor
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with William (Bill) Overholt, senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a veteran China-watcher whose career has run the gamut f...
26 Elo 20211h 9min
Historian Adam Tooze on why China’s modern history should matter to Americans
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the Columbia historian Adam Tooze, who returns to the program a year after his first appearance. A prolific writer and wide-ranging public intellectual, Adam was...
19 Elo 20211h 2min
Peter Martin on ‘China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Peter Martin, a correspondent for Bloomberg based in Washington, D.C., about his book, China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. Thi...
12 Elo 20211h 3min
A conversation with Ambassador Huang Ping, consul general of the P.R.C.'s New York Consulate
This week on Sinica, we’re pleased to present a conversation with Ambassador Huáng Píng 黄屏, a veteran Chinese diplomat who has been consul general of China’s New York Consulate since November 2018. He...
5 Elo 20211h 12min
Reflecting on China's poverty reduction with Bill Bikales
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Bill Bikales, who recently returned to the U.S. after 15 years in China as a developmental economist with the United Nations. In June, Bill published a paper tit...
29 Heinä 20211h 4min
A data-driven dive into Chinese politics, with Stanford's Yiqing Xu
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yiqing Xu, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, about his work in applying modern methods in political science to the politics of ...
22 Heinä 20211h
Avoiding ideological conflict with Beijing: Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss, both professors of government at Cornell University, about their recent essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Clash of Systems? ...
18 Heinä 20211h 6min
How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, about her new book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Ref...
8 Heinä 20211h 35min
