A Letter from Beijing
This week, my narration of a longish essay about my recently-concluded four-week trip to Dalian and, more importantly, Beijing — my first time back in the city I called home for so long since the COVI...
25 Jul 202434min
Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing
This week on Sinica, I'm in Beijing, where I spoke with my dear friend Anthony Tao, an English-language poet and a builder of community in the city where I lived for over 20 years. Anthony recently pu...
18 Jul 20241h 2min
Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more
I'm trying something different: totally unscripted and very, very lightly edited recordings grabbed on the go where I happen to be. For the inaugural episode, I've got Wang Zichen, the author of the a...
12 Jul 202456min
Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations
This week on Sinica, I chat with University of Melbourne transnational historian Pete Millwood about his outstanding book Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade ...
11 Jul 20241h 20min
Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable
This week on Sinica, in a show recorded on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, historian Adam Tooze joins to chat about what the U.S. wants from China, Chi...
4 Jul 20241h 5min
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2
This week on Sinica, Part 2 of the interview with anthropologist Stevan Harrell, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, about his magnum opus, An Ecological History of China. Be sure to l...
27 Jun 20241h 15min
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1
This week on Sinica, Part 1 of a two-part podcast with Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Washington. Steve's groundbreaking book An Ecological History of Modern C...
20 Jun 20241h 14min
Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education"
This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuli...
13 Jun 20241h 26min
