Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Villanova University historian Andrew Liu. Andy published an excellent essay in n+1 magazine in April that captured how the eclipse of the "wet-market" theory of...
7 Jul 202257min
Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, about her wonderful new book Kingdom of C...
30 Jun 202259min
Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Shelley Rigger of Davidson College returns to the show to talk Taiwan. She's joined by Simona Grano, a sinologist and Taiwan specialist at the University of Zürich. Th...
16 Jun 20221h 12min
A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with James (Jay) Carter, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Jay, who joined us on the show in December 2020 to talk ab...
9 Jun 202257min
Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Dr. George Hu, a clinical psychologist based in Shanghai, who has a lot to say about the state of mental health in Chinese cities under lockdown. Unsurprising...
2 Jun 202258min
Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT's Demetri Sevastopulo
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes veteran Asia reporter Demetri Sevastopulo, who covers the U.S.-China relationship for the Financial Times. They discuss some of Demetri's scoops, like the news tha...
26 Mai 20221h 14min
Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of "unpeace," with the ECFR's Mark Leonard
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Mark Leonard, founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author most recently of The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflic...
19 Mai 20221h 7min
The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn
This week on Sinica, Deborah Seligsohn returns to the show to talk about the sad state of U.S.-China scientific collaboration. As the Science Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2003 to 2007...
12 Mai 20221h 9min
