
U.S.-China Relations at a Crossroads — Serah Beran and Victor Shih
In this episode, recorded in November 2025, Victor Shih sits down with Sarah Beran to discuss key developments in U.S.-China relations and how the relationship has evolved and may continue to evolve i...
18 Dec 202530min

Bureaucracies at War, Featuring Tyler Jost
Center Executive Director Lei Guang recently sat down with Tyler Jost to discuss his new book, Bureaucracies at War. This podcast features highlights from their conversation, focusing on how Jost’s an...
12 Maj 202519min

The Micro-Foundations of Capitalism
In this episode, UC San Diego Professor Barry Naughton talks globalization and economic development in China, Russia and India with Temple Professor Roselyn Hsueh.
1 Juni 202232min

Retrofitting Lenism - Dimitar Gueorguiev and Harris Doshay
21CCC Assistant Director Harris Doshay sits down with Syracuse Associate Professor and UCSD Alum Dimitar Gueorguiev to discuss his latest book, Retrofitting Leninism. In it, they explore the logic of...
3 Maj 202232min

The DOJ's China Initiative: Where it went wrong, and why - Susan Shirk and Carol Lam
Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center, and former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam sit down to discuss the ways the China Initiative, from flaws in its inception to views towards the future of DO...
22 Mars 202233min

Xinjiang from Qing to Xi - James Millward & Micah Muscolino
Micah Muscolino interviews James Millward, a leading scholar on China and Central Asia at Georgetown University. They connect the history of Xinjiang in the Qing Empire, to assimilationist policies an...
16 Sep 202031min

Remembering June 4 - Perry Link & Paul Pickowicz
The 21st Century China Center is premiering a new web series: "China Throughlines" - featuring UC San Diego’s China historians in conversation with their colleagues on the echos and connectedness of C...
3 Juni 202018min





















