Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience"
This week on Sinica, Iza Ding, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, joins to...
25 Apr 20241h
The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS
This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome Dá Wēi (达巍), one of China’s foremost scholars of China’s foreign relations and especially relations with the U.S. Da Wei is the director of the Center for...
18 Apr 20241h 25min
Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem?
This week on Sinica, a discussion of Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem (or more accurately, Remembrance of Earth's Past). Joining me to chat about the big-budget show is Cindy...
11 Apr 20241h 9min
Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently?
This week on Sinica: I wandered the halls at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle and talked to 14 participants and asked them all the same question: What has become clear to you ab...
3 Apr 202449min
Back to the Future: David M. Lampton and Thomas Fingar on What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
This week on Sinica, I speak with veteran China analysts Thomas Fingar and David M. Lampton — Mike Lampton — about a paper they published in the Winter 2024 edition of the Washington Quarterly. It's a...
27 Mar 20241h 24min
Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power
This week on the Sinica Podcast, a show taped in Salzburg, Austria, at the Salzburg Global Seminar with Kerry Brown of King's College, London, on the prolific author's latest book, China Incorporated:...
21 Mar 20241h 30min
Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria
Historian Rana Mitter joins Sinica this week in a show taped live in Salzburg, Austria at the Salzburg Global Seminar, in which he discusses efforts by Party ideologists to create a Confucian-Marxist ...
14 Mar 20241h 7min
Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners
This week on Sinica, the winners of the 2023 Schwarzman Capstone Showcase. Two individuals and one team were selected as the best research projects after review of their projects and presentation of t...
7 Mar 20241h 24min
