The Case Against the China Consensus, with Jessica Chen Weiss of SAIS
This week on Sinica, I chat with Jessica Chen Weiss, until recently at Cornell University but now the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International ...
26 Sep 202452min
Space Debris: How Can the U.S. and China Avoid the Tragedy of the Commons, with Nainika Sudheendra
This week I continue my conversations with some of the outstanding Schwarzman Scholars who presented at the Capstone Showcase in late June. In this episode, I speak with Nainika Sudheendra about the p...
19 Sep 202447min
Priority Pluralism: Rethinking Universal Values in U.S.-China Relations
I thought Sinica listeners might be interested in listening to an audio narration of my latest essay. I hope you enjoy and that it gives you some food for thought! If you prefer to read, you can find ...
16 Sep 202439min
The Chinese Game Industry’s Journey to the West — Rui Ma and Rob Wynne on the Success of Black Myth: Wukong
The Chinese game studio Game Science has a hit on its hands! The game Black Myth: Wukong, an action role-playing game (ARPG) based on the Monkey King from Journey to the West, has sold extraordinarily...
12 Sep 202458min
The Tragedy of Old School Beijing Hip-Hop with Olivia Fu
This week on Sinica, I chat with Olivia Fu, who this spring completed her year at Schwarzman College and wrote her Capstone project — a research paper that is required of all Schwarzman Scholars — on ...
7 Sep 20241h 2min
Does Beijing Really Want Trump?
Hey folks! I took some time off to drive the kids to college and then flew to California to celebrate my brother John’s birthday. The upshot is there’s no interview this week, so in place of that, her...
28 Aug 202416min
The Swifts of Beijing, with Terry Townshend of Birding Beijing
I was looking for a good episode to pull from the archive to run this week as I'll be traveling and I asked my good friend Deb Seligsohn for a recommendation. She went immediately to this one, and by ...
15 Aug 202458min
Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education
Here's a little bonus ep for you ahead of tomorrow's show, which will be a re-run of a really fun one from about 10 years ago! I'm driving the rest of this week to the Midwest to drop my kids off at t...
14 Aug 202413min
