Susan Shirk: The fragile superpower and trepidation over Trump
A top diplomat during the Clinton administration, author of the influential book China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise, research professor and chair o...
9 Feb 201756min
John Zhu retells the Three Kingdoms story
In the last three years, John Zhu has embarked on a mission to build a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures by retelling one of China’s great classics in accessible audio episodes. He has relea...
2 Feb 201757min
Sidney Rittenberg on solitary confinement and more
Sidney Rittenberg is a labor activist from Charleston, South Carolina, who went to China as a translator for the U.S. Army in 1945 and stayed until 1980. In this episode, Sidney talks about the condit...
26 Jan 201742min
Sidney Rittenberg: An interview with a revolutionary
Sidney Rittenberg was a labor activist in the American South before going to China as a translator for the U.S. Army in 1945. He stayed there until 1980, joining the Communist Party and going to the r...
19 Jan 20171h 8min
Ken Liu on Chinese science fiction
Ken Liu is a science-fiction writer, translator, computer programmer, and lawyer. He has written two novels and more than 100 short stories. His short story “The Paper Menagerie” is the first work of ...
12 Jan 201749min
Talking ’bout my generation: Alec Ash and Chinese millennials
Alec Ash is a young British writer who lives in Beijing, who has covered “left behind” children in Chinese villages, the “toughest high school exam in the world” and internet live streaming among many...
5 Jan 201746min
Ian Johnson on the Vatican and China
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who has lived in Beijing and Taiwan for more than half of the past 30 years, writing for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Re...
29 Des 201658min
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: Part Two
John Pomfret first went to China as a student in 1980 and covered the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989 for the Associated Press. He was expelled for his efforts, but returned to Beijing a decade later...
22 Des 201641min
