Suing for clean air and studying for the bar exam: Rachel Stern on China's legal system
China’s legal system is much derided and poorly understood, but its development has, in many ways, been one of the defining features of the reform and opening-up era. Rachel Stern, a professor of law ...
20 Okt 201649min
Lines of fracture in Chinese public opinion: A conversation with Ma Tianjie
On this week’s episode, our guest Ma Tianjie, editor of the bilingual environmental website China Dialogue and the blogger behind Chublic Opinion, untangles the complexities and contradictions of onli...
13 Okt 201642min
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 Okt 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 201640min
