Jane Perlez: Chinese foreign relations in a new age of uncertainty
Jane Perlez has been a reporter at The New York Times since 1981. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has reporte...
2 Mar 20171h 9min
Rhino horn and organized crime, from Africa to China and Vietnam
John Grobler is a Namibian investigative reporter who has devoted more than two years of his life to examining the complex webs of organized crime funneling rhino horn from Africa to east Asia. Shi Yi...
23 Feb 201757min
Africa-China journalism
In November 2016, Sinica co-host Jeremy Goldkorn attended a conference in his native South Africa called the Africa-China Journalists Forum. The forum was convened to discuss the often-polarized media...
16 Feb 201728min
Susan Shirk: The fragile superpower and trepidation over Trump
A top diplomat during the Clinton administration, author of the influential book China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise, research professor and chair o...
9 Feb 201756min
John Zhu retells the Three Kingdoms story
In the last three years, John Zhu has embarked on a mission to build a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures by retelling one of China’s great classics in accessible audio episodes. He has relea...
2 Feb 201757min
Sidney Rittenberg on solitary confinement and more
Sidney Rittenberg is a labor activist from Charleston, South Carolina, who went to China as a translator for the U.S. Army in 1945 and stayed until 1980. In this episode, Sidney talks about the condit...
26 Jan 201742min
Sidney Rittenberg: An interview with a revolutionary
Sidney Rittenberg was a labor activist in the American South before going to China as a translator for the U.S. Army in 1945. He stayed there until 1980, joining the Communist Party and going to the r...
19 Jan 20171h 8min
Ken Liu on Chinese science fiction
Ken Liu is a science-fiction writer, translator, computer programmer, and lawyer. He has written two novels and more than 100 short stories. His short story “The Paper Menagerie” is the first work of ...
12 Jan 201749min
