The Chinese Communist Party at 100
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by historian Timothy Cheek of the University of British Columbia, political scientist Elizabeth Perry of Harvard, and our very own Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chie...
1 Jul 20211h 21min
China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yong Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This episode — the first in-person interview ...
24 Jun 202152min
COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn
Shortly after Deborah Seligsohn was last on Sinica, in April, the lab leak hypothesis seemed suddenly to gain traction — at least in American media. This week, Kaiser invites Deborah back to the show ...
17 Jun 20211h 1min
Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Jones, a Helsinki-based reporter who over the last several years has secured a place as the go-to English-language journalist covering China’s space progr...
10 Jun 20211h 15min
Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yingyi Ma, an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University and the author of the book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and ...
3 Jun 20211h 26min
China, Russia, and the U.S.: Does the 'strategic triangle' still matter?
Have China and Russia entered into a de facto anti-American alliance? Is Russia, which in Soviet days was for a time the “older brother” to Mao’s China, now comfortable with playing junior partner to ...
27 Mai 20211h 8min
Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
Veteran China scholar Orville Schell has written a dozen books on China, but his latest book — which Schell published at the age of 80 — is his first novel. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile is a bildungs...
20 Mai 202149min
Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ's China Initiative
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Margaret (Maggie) Lewis, a professor of law at Seton Hall University, about her work on the U.S. Department of Justice’s “China Initiative.” Launched under forme...
13 Mai 202150min
