All sorts of swindles in the late Ming society, with Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk, both professors at the University of British Columbia, about their translation of Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming C...
12 Apr 201852min
Why China and North Korea are not as close as you think: Ma Zhao and John Delury talk history
The dominant narrative in the U.S. about China’s relationship with the small northeastern neighbor is relentlessly one-sided. For decades, American officials have referenced Mao Zedong’s famous (thoug...
5 Apr 20181h 3min
The Chinese Communist Party’s refusal to reconcile with its past, explained by Orville Schell
“Can a society which has not...come to terms with its own past go on to have a successful future, or do the sins of the past somehow...come back to haunt it and reexpress themselves in some mutant for...
29 Mar 201855min
The Chinese student experience in America, with Siqi Tu and Eric Fish
This week, our featured topic is Chinese students overseas. There are about 800,000 of them, and according to China’s Ministry of Education, nearly 80 percent choose to return to China soon after fini...
22 Mar 20181h 3min
How China’s poverty alleviation program works, explained by Gao Qin
There is no question that China has seen a miracle of poverty reduction. According to the World Bank, since the economic reforms that started in 1978, economic growth in China has “lifted more than 80...
15 Mar 20181h
China’s authoritarian revival, explained by Carl Minzner
This week, we have an inadvertently timely podcast on China’s authoritarian revival. Mere days before the episode’s recording, Chinese President Xi Jinping set the stage to extend his power to rule Ch...
8 Mar 20181h 2min
Courts & torts: Driving the Chinese legal system
"Having read hundreds and hundreds of these cases, I have decided that I'm never going to drive in China." That is what Benjamin Liebman, the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columb...
1 Mar 20181h 2min
The China Questions, with Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi
“We hear, in the media and in comments by politicians, a lot of very glib statements that oversimplify China, that suggest all of China is one thing or one way,” says Michael Szonyi, a professor of Ch...
22 Feb 201857min
