What is cultural about the Cultural Revolution? Paul Clark on creativity amid destruction
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic decade of Chinese history made infamous in the West through books such as Wild Swans and Life and Death in ...
25 Aug 201637min
It's all connected: Silk Roads old and new
Jim Millward is one of the world’s leading scholars on Xinjiang and Central Asia, and the author of many books and articles, including Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central A...
18 Aug 201655min
A discussion with Cheng Li: Where is Chinese politics going?
This episode of Sinica is a wide-ranging conversation with Cheng Li (李成), one of the most prominent international scholars of elite Chinese politics and its relation to grassroots changes and generati...
11 Aug 201654min
Clay Shirky on tech and the internet in China
In this episode of Sinica, Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody who has written about the internet and its effects on society since the 1990s, joins Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss the strengt...
4 Aug 20161h 6min
Calming the waters of the South China Sea and beyond
This episode, Jeremy and Kaiser head to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, to speak with Professor Lyle Goldstein, the author of Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-...
28 Jul 201656min
Whose century is it, anyway?
This live recording of Sinica at the Smyth Hotel in New York City on July 13 features the journalists Mary Kay Magistad and Gady Epstein discussing the increasingly complex "frenemyship" of China and ...
21 Jul 201646min
The Kaiser Kuo exit interview
This week, Kaiser sits in the guest chair and tells us about his 20-plus years of living in China. He recounts being the front man for the heavy metal band Tang Dynasty and the group's tour stops in C...
14 Jul 201653min
Understanding China through a vibrant Shanghai street
Rob Schmitz, China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace, has been living in the nation on and off since 1995. He is the author of Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a ...
6 Jul 201644min
