China’s authoritarian revival, explained by Carl Minzner
This week, we have an inadvertently timely podcast on China’s authoritarian revival. Mere days before the episode’s recording, Chinese President Xi Jinping set the stage to extend his power to rule Ch...
8 Mar 20181h 2min
Courts & torts: Driving the Chinese legal system
"Having read hundreds and hundreds of these cases, I have decided that I'm never going to drive in China." That is what Benjamin Liebman, the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columb...
1 Mar 20181h 2min
The China Questions, with Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi
“We hear, in the media and in comments by politicians, a lot of very glib statements that oversimplify China, that suggest all of China is one thing or one way,” says Michael Szonyi, a professor of Ch...
22 Feb 201857min
‘Critical’ journalism in China, explained by Maria Repnikova
Outside observers typically view China’s media as utterly shackled by the bonds of censorship, unable to critique the government or speak truth to power in any meaningful sense. In part, this is true ...
15 Feb 20181h 6min
Kishore Mahbubani on China’s rise and America’s myopia
China, as we say at the beginning of each Sinica Podcast episode, is a nation that is reshaping the world. But what does that reshaping really look like, and how does — and should — the world react to...
8 Feb 201854min
Gerry Shih on China’s Uyghur Muslims, under pressure at home and abroad
Associated Press (AP) reporter Gerry Shih was hard at work in 2017 writing a remarkable series of articles on China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. By traveling not just to China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomou...
1 Feb 201854min
Yukon Huang, the China economy contrarian
Yukon Huang thinks that China’s economy is extremely unconventional. Unsurprisingly, then, that nearly all the conventional economic wisdom we hear about this economy — particularly the two hugely pop...
26 Jan 201857min
Jerry Yang of Yahoo: Why I Believed in Alibaba
This week on Sinica, we bring you a special preview of a new podcast called 996 Podcast with GGV Capital, which we are very excited to co-produce. Subscribe to the 996 Podcast here on iTunes, and her...
17 Jan 20181h 24min
