Understanding China through a vibrant Shanghai street
Rob Schmitz, China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace, has been living in the nation on and off since 1995. He is the author of Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a ...
6 Juli 201644min
Why do so many Chinese people admire Donald Trump?
Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for The New Yorker who moved from Chongqing to North America when she was seven years old. Despite her inability to drink alcohol because of an acetaldehyde dehydrogenase...
30 Juni 201651min
Patrolling China's cyberspace
Adam Segal is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, The Hacked World ...
23 Juni 201649min
Arthur Kroeber vs. The Conventional Wisdom
In this episode of Sinica, we present an in-depth interview with Arthur Kroeber, the founding partner and head of research for Gavekal Dragonomics, an independent global economic research firm, and th...
16 Juni 20161h 2min
50 years of work on U.S.-China relations
In this week's episode of Sinica, we are proud to announce that we're joining forces with SupChina. We're also delighted that our first episode with our new partner is a conversation with President St...
3 Juni 201650min
Live: The Cultural Revolution at 50
Fifty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, inaugurating a decade of political turmoil with his calls for young people to "bombard the headquarters." In this specia...
15 Maj 20161h 19min
Public opinion with Chinese characteristics
The immense popularity of social media has afforded China watchers a terrific window onto public opinion in China. In recent years, a slew of English-language websites have emerged to interpret the va...
20 Apr 201648min
Neo-Maoists: Everything old is new again
Members of the Politburo are rarely praised for their dancing skills, but consider Xi Jinping's almost flawless execution of a political two-step: first casting himself as the voice of liberal moderat...
20 Mars 201650min
