China's Banking Transformation, with James Stent
Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened, so what have these pundits been missing? James Stent is the former director of two Ch...
26 Jul 201722min
The Souls of China: Religion after Mao, with Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, journalist, and reviewer of China’s society, religion, and history. His writing appears regularly in leading publications such as the New York Times, T...
3 Jul 201742min
Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: Politics, LGBT Rights, and International Reputation, with George Yin
On May 24, 2017, a court in Taipei struck down Taiwan’s ban on same-sex marriage. This ruling, the result of years of campaigning by LGBT-rights activists in Taiwan combined with recent political supp...
3 Jul 201712min
Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress, with Michael Forsythe
Michael Forsythe is a New York Times journalist who is well known for his detailed reports on the links between money and politics in China. The "Harvard on China" podcast spoke to Michael Forsythe o...
3 Jul 201723min
Reporting From China, with Pulitzer Prize winner David Barboza
In 2004, David Barboza became the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent, where he began researching a story that would fundamentally change the relationship between Western journalists and the Chines...
3 Jul 201745min
Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and "Unlikely Partners," with Julian Gewirtz
China has a long and complex history of interacting with foreign thinkers. After Mao's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership solicited foreign economists in order to curate China’s path towards market...
3 Jul 201718min
What Bamboo Slips teach us about Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Sarah Allan
Today’s guest on the “Harvard on China” podcast is Sarah Allan, the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, and Chair of the Society for the Study of Early Chin...
3 Jul 20177min
Rural Women under Mao: Oral Histories of China with Gail Hershatter
Today’s guest on the Harvard on China podcast is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research spans the history of China’s long twentie...
3 Jul 201714min
