China in drag: Michael Bristow discusses his new book on China’s — and one man’s — incredible transformation
Michael Bristow was stationed in Beijing as the Asia Pacific editor for the BBC World Service from 2005 to 2013. He has written a book called China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-Dresser, in which he r...
14 Sep 201753min
China’s tightening grip on cyberspace
Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You may remember him...
7 Sep 201742min
China’s environmental challenges: Overfishing, toxic soil, and unbreathable air
Lucy Hornby is a China correspondent for the Financial Times. She has previously been on Sinica to speak about China’s last surviving comfort women and about women’s representation in China expertise....
31 Aug 20171h 8min
U.S.-China relations after six months of Trump, with Susan Shirk and Stan Rosen
Has the last half year of turbulent U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics passed you by? Confused you? Perhaps you’d like a clear recap in plain English? If yes, then this is the podcast episode f...
24 Aug 20171h 4min
Of dirty words and Party-speak: Sinica Podcast live in D.C.
Dirty words, politically incorrect phrases, the legal distinction between suspect and criminal, customs boundary versus national boundary, and better ways to refer to disabled people and minorities: A...
17 Aug 20171h 7min
Gillian Wong and Josh Chin on journalism careers in China
Gillian Wong has been reporting from China since 2008 and is now the news director for Greater China at the Associated Press. High-profile stories Gillian has covered include the 2012 Tibetan self-imm...
10 Aug 201753min
China’s great spiritual revival
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist Ian Johnson returns to the Sinica Podcast to introduce his new book, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. It tells the stories of differen...
3 Aug 20171h 11min
Joan Kaufman on foreign nonprofits and academia in China
Joan Kaufman is a fascinating figure: Her long and storied career in China started in the early 1980s, when she was what she calls a “cappuccino-and-croissant socialist from Berkeley.” Today, she is t...
27 Jul 201750min
