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
Trump Meets Xi: the Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom with John Pomfret
This week, President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time. Will their meeting herald a new era in U.S.-China relations? Probably not, and in fact we may see a lot of sho...
3 Jul 201725min
Taiwan Calling: Why is the Trump-Tsai phone call so important? With Steven Goldstein
President-elect Donald Trump broke diplomatic protocol by receiving a call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Why is this phone call so important, why shouldn’t Trump have taken the call, and why a...
3 Jul 201714min
How Should We Use the Chinese Past? With Leigh Jenco
In the West, we often consider Western philosophical discourse to have a degree of universality. This is not always the case, however, when we think about Chinese thought. Why does Chinese philosophy ...
3 Jul 201713min
Sino-Japanese Relations Through Kanzo Uchiyama And Lu Xun, with Joshua Fogel
Sino-Japanese relations are often portrayed as a rivalry hindered by historical grievances. Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto, explores a different side of China’s relati...
3 Jul 201711min
Chinese Investment in Post-Brexit Europe, with Philippe Le Corre
Europe’s post-2008 financial crises have provided opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in cash-strapped European states. From infrastructure investments in a high-speed rail line between Serb...
3 Jul 201717min
U.S.-China Relations in the Obama Administration, with Evan Medeiros
The 2016 presidential election pushed the U.S-China relationship to the forefront of public debates. In both foreign policy and domestic politics, China loomed large as politicians threw accusations a...
3 Jul 20177min
