China's judicial decisions database and what it means
By the end of 2019, Chinese courts had uploaded some 80 million court cases to a massive, centralized database — a gold mine not only for people working in the legal professions in China, but also for...
14 Tammi 202156min
Ryan Hass on the Biden administration's China direction
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back former National Security Council China director Ryan Hass, who offers his perspective on the likely direction that the incoming Biden administration will take...
7 Tammi 202155min
Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on "liberal" Chinese Trump supporters
Why have so many prominent critical and dissident intellectuals from China come out vocally in support of Donald Trump? This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy set out to answer that question, and are ...
31 Joulu 20201h 16min
Historian James Carter on the final days of Old Shanghai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with James “Jay” Carter, a professor of history at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, about his terrific new book, Champions Day: The End of Old Shang...
25 Joulu 202051min
Veteran diplomat Evan Feigenbaum on U.S. policy in a changing Asia
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi...
17 Joulu 202049min
China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions
This week on Sinica, we bring you a conversation with Pallavi Aiyar, a prolific writer and, until 2008, a Beijing-based journalist, and Ananth Krishnan, who reported from China for The Hindu and India...
10 Joulu 20201h
Is coercive environmentalism the answer?
In this episode of Sinica, which was taped live at the fourth annual NEXTChina Conference on November 11, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, co-authors of a new book called China...
3 Joulu 202034min
Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
This week on Sinica, we teamed up with Columbia University Press and the Columbia Global Centers to convene a conversation with Brian Dott, a professor of history and Middle Eastern studies at Whitman...
27 Marras 202040min
